Home energy dashboard setup

Your smart meter records what your house uses across the day. Almost nobody ever sees it. We take that data, put it into a dashboard you will actually open, lay your plan's pricing windows over the top so you can see what is costing you and when, and then build the handful of automations that move the expensive stuff to the cheap part of the day. On our platform, or inside Home Assistant if you would rather own the lot. Rescuing and building Home Assistant setups is what this business already does, so this is the same work pointed at your power bill.

What you actually end up with

1. Your usage, in a dashboard. Not a quarterly bill and not a retailer app that shows you last week. Your real consumption, laid out by time of day, on a screen you can put on a phone, a tablet on the wall, or the browser you already have open.
2. Your tariff windows drawn over the top. This is the part nobody does for themselves. When your plan charges different rates at different times, the dashboard shades those windows, so a spike is not just a spike: you can see whether it landed in the expensive part of the day or the cheap one.
3. A before and after verdict. If your plan changed after your meter was swapped, the obvious question is whether that change cost you money. We answer it with your own numbers, in both directions. If you came out ahead, you will hear that.
4. The shifting automations, built and running. Hot water, pool pump, EV charging and aircon are the four big movable loads in a normal house. Where it makes sense, we automate them to run when power is cheapest, and then leave them running without you thinking about it.

Two ways to run it

Both give you the same picture. The difference is who carries the maintenance. We will tell you which one suits you after we hear what is already in the house, and we do not push the subscription at people who plainly want to own their setup.

How it works

1. A short conversation. What meter you have, what plan you are on, whether you have solar, a pool, an EV or ducted aircon, and what you are actually trying to find out. Ten minutes on the phone or in an email is usually enough.
2. We quote. One number for the setup, and the subscription separated out if you want the hosted option. You decide before anything starts.
3. We connect the data. Meter data where we can get at it, plus our own monitoring on the switchboard where that gives a better or faster picture. This is the step that occasionally needs someone physically present.
4. We build the dashboard. Usage, tariff windows, the before and after comparison, and any per circuit detail worth splitting out.
5. We build the automations. Only the ones that will actually shift a meaningful amount of load in your house, and only where you want them.
6. We hand it over, documented. You get an explanation of what was built and how to change it. No mystery black box, no lock-in, same as everything else we do.

What it costs

There are two parts: a one-off setup fee, and an optional ongoing subscription if you want us to host and maintain the platform rather than handing you a Home Assistant build to run yourself.

We quote the setup after the short conversation rather than publishing a single figure, because the honest number depends on things we cannot know in advance: whether your meter data is readily accessible, whether the switchboard has room and safe access for monitoring hardware, how many circuits you want split out, and how many automations you want built. A house with an accessible board and one automation is not the same job as a five circuit split with an EV charger and a pool.

What we will commit to: you get a number, not a range, before any work starts, and the subscription is quoted separately and plainly so you can take the setup and decline the ongoing part. Tell us what is in your house and you will get the figure.

Where we cover

Most of this is configuration work delivered over a secure remote session, which means we can do it anywhere in NSW, not just Sydney. Reading your data, building the dashboard, overlaying the tariff windows and writing the automations do not require anyone standing in your hallway.

The exception is physical work: fitting current clamps, anything that involves opening the switchboard, and any remedial work the board needs first. That part is the Blue Mountains and Penrith with our own hands, or done through a licensed partner further out. Anything touching mains wiring goes to a licensed electrician, which is the same line we hold across everything on this site.

Where this comes from

The platforms and public tools behind the work above, so you can look into any of it yourself:

• Home Assistant, the open source home automation platform we build in, and its energy management documentation.
• Energy Made Easy, the Australian Energy Regulator's free plan comparison service.
• NSW Government, smart meter rollout, for what the meter change involves and when it reaches you.
• Demand response and electricity metering, background on why time based pricing exists at all.

Questions people ask

Who does this work

If your meter has been swapped and you have no idea whether it changed what you pay, that is exactly the question this answers. Tell us what is in your house: the meter, the plan, and whether there is a pool, an EV or ducted aircon in the mix. You will get a straight quote and, if you want it, a dashboard that shows you what your house is actually doing. Start with a quick message, or ring 02 9707 0999 and talk it through.