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What happened to the Energy tariffs section?

Adrian Van Der Heijden shared this question 7 years ago
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Was I imagining it, or was there a place in the setting menu a while ago that related to Energy tariffs and being able to set your electricity pricing and see consumption levels?

I never tried it out, but thought it was there. Did anyone give it a go? Can you tell me where it is now and how to find it? It is a Pro Licence thing only?

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i gave it a go, but it did not work. It has been removed indeed.

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There was, you didn't imagine it, my guess is that it was open for beta testers and now they are going to release it. I think it is going to be a Pro thing only. It was accessible on the settings tab for the controller and clicking on "set up tariffs" or something like that, then you needed to click on the dollar sign of every meter you wanted to generate a report on.

I did try it and it is a good idea but needs to be more flexible, it was designed to set up tariffs by periods of time and you would have to keep configuring the periods every time, for example, if your billing period is two months and you set up your tarifs for that period, since they use absolute dates you would have to set it up for next period after that. Second thing I didn't liked is the fact that you needed to go to each device (meter) in order to get a consumption report, so, if you have many you will spend quite some time just pulling up the reports.

Third thing I didn't like is the fact that this system is designed based on european tarif periods, which is depending of what time of the day your consumption is made. In Mexico, to this day, particular consumption (not industry) is charged by the amount of KWh consumed, regardless of when you consumed it, so I will not be functional for costs in this case. I did send my feedback to development team.

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