Bright redesign coming - any requests?
Hello everyone - hope you are enjoying your weekend!
As it is now around six years since we launched the UK's first energy monitoring App, it is time to give it an overhaul.
We've a list of suggestions for improvements we could make based on emails you've sent us over the years - but thought we'd also ask on our forum if there are ideas you'd like to put forward for us to consider.
Export might not be included at launch but as we've now (a year after ordering it) got a lot more capacity in our DCC connection, hopefully export support is getting closer.
Please post your thoughts here.
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Hi - can you show export please!!
I have solar panels and would like to see my export readings ; current app shows my import and often on good days I can see a flat line of zero import.
Seeing the export data of what I am pushing out would be great - or even just being able to see the export data.
Cheers M.
Thank you @EJMD - we have it high on our list! We had a full solar product ten years ago (clamp based with generation, the Shine App) - and have now got a lot of the backend functionality in place to support solar. Can you work with APIs and code? we are publishing export for a lot of people in that channel.
Can you correct the cost figures on the home tab. They appear to calculate usage based on GMT, while my tariff is based on time of day (currently BST).
Because I am on an EV tariff that starts at 0:00, the home page massively overstates my costs, because the first hour is calculated at daytime rate, rather than the much lower EV rate.
The Electricity tab shows the correct value.
Good morning - this is a known issue that we have a fix for and it won't require an update to Bright - just the backend.
The issue is ONLY on the home screen - if you go to the detailed cost screen the calculated costs are correct.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Hi Jane,
Great to hear there will be some improvements.
-YOY analysis please. Currently when you click on Month you see usage by month across the year but when you click on comparison there is no means to compare year on year on a monthly basis - you just see monthly comparison by day for the last few months. I know you can toggle back to the previous year and seeing monthly data when not in the comparison mode but it would be good to compare side by side.
-Also on the website version https://bright.glowmarkt.com the font of eh axis are too small.
-The time GMT / BST mentioned above is important too but I've not checked it for a while so don't know if that has now showing the fix.
-having the ability to choose bar or line charts
-having the ability to choose which days, weeks or month to plot on the chart based on a list on the side, like a filter list would be great
-some sort of means to help you understand if you are below consumption compared to last year or using more on a YTD or month run rate sort of measure
-Ability to have multiple accounts / homes. Currently I have to use the app for one account and the web for the other.
Hope that helps would be great to understand timings and happy to help in beta testing
Thanks.
RP