Tuesday, January 21, 2020

I’ve created my first Magic Mirror module. It displays electric and gas energy usage if you have an Octopus Energy supply.

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It uses’s Octopus’s public REST API to request usage history.
https://developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/

Very basic, but does the job.

Get the code on GitHub:
https://github.com/christopherpthomas/MMM-OctoMon

Inspired to create this because we’ve just bought a Nissan Leaf (full electric vehicle), and the ‘Octopus GO’ tariff gives us cheap overnight electricity between 12:30am and 4:30am which goes a long way to charge the car! Spotted their API and thought I’d have a crack at it.

Oh and, if you sign up to Octopus with my referral code, we’ll both get £50! Yaaay!
https://share.octopus.energy/amber-lion-261

I’ve had my magic mirror for two years now, and still going strong!
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/5448/my-living-room-magic-mirror

Hope someone else finds it useful!