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Piggy Bank

Save money by moving electricity consumption within the desired power tariff
Save money by moving electricity consumption within the desired power tariff

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Supported devices

Flow cards

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When...

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The charging power should be changed to the supplied token (Offered power) W
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This trigger should be used to change the charging power. It will be called on the best schedule after the action 'Start Charging Cycle' has been initiated.
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There is more than Available Power Watts available for other devices for the rest of the hour.
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Use this trigger if you want to control the power of for example an electric car charger.
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The price level changed.
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Use this trigger if you want the internal price control of Piggy Bank to control external events.
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The charging should be started, using lowest power
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This Trigger should be used to start the charger. It will be called on the best schedule after the action 'Start Charging Cycle' has been initiated.
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The charging should be stopped
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This Trigger should be used to stop the charger. It will be called on the best schedule after the action 'Start Charging Cycle' has been initiated.
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Could not reduce power usage. Turn off attached power immediately or the power-tariff for next month will be increased!
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Use this condition as a last resort to limit energy. If the app turned off every controllable device the user can be alerted to do a manual powerdown if this was not enough.

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The future price in Number of hours hours is unavailable
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Use this condition to handle situations when the future prices in a given number of hours for some reason is not available.
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The zone Zone name is enabled
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Use this flow card to check if a zone is enabled for app control. You may have to restart Piggy Bank if you changed name of a zone.
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The mode is equal to Mode
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Use this flowcard to check when the app operation mode is equal to a certain value.
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The price level is equal to ...
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Use this flow card to check if the price point is a certain value.

Then...

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Set the max hourly usage to Max usage per hour
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Allows you to dynamically change the maximum hourly usage. This could be useful when changing between summer time, winter time and long holidays
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Set the Piggy Bank operation mode to Mode
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Allows you to switch between day, night and other operation modes
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Set the Piggy Bank price point to ...
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Inform Piggy Bank whether the energy is expensive or cheap
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Set the reserved power to Reserved power
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Allows you to reserve power for uncontrollable devices, such as when making dinner
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Change zone enabled for Zone name to Enabled
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Allows you to turn on/off devices in zones e.g. in connection with ventilation. You may have to restart Piggy Bank if you changed name of a zone. If the app is disabled the zone list may be empty.
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Override Device Device operation with ...
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Allows you to override how Piggy Bank operates a specific device.
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Start charging cheapest Offered energy (kWh) kWh before End time
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Tell Piggy Bank to start a charging cycle. The offered energy (kWh) will be distributed on the cheapest hours before the time runs out. When the given amount of energy has been offered to the car the charging cycle will stop. Note that for supported car chargers the offered energy and used energy will be the same. For unsupported car chargers this may not be the case.
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Start charging Number of hours to offer energy cheapest hours before End time
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Tell Piggy Bank to start a charging cycle. It will only charge in the X cheapest hours before the time runs out. (Note that if the current hour is one of them then the charging time will be shorter) For unsupported car chargers this may be the most deterministic starting function as they do not report used energy.
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Stop the charging cycle ahead of time
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In case you need to stop the charging cycle ahead of time you can call this flow card in order to prevent the app from offering more energy.
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Set the energy used to Connect to the power meter's consumption reading kWh
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Attach the energy usage (per day/hour/total etc.) output of your meter reader to this action card in order to enable the app. In case you have several readings for different intervals (day/hour etc.) then only send one of them to this app and make sure it's the one that updates most often.
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Set the power to Current Power usage from the power meter W
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Attach the current power usage output of your energy meter to this action card in order to enable the app

Support

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What's new

Version 0.21.14 — Made the app more visible in the app store by adding tags for all the brands for devices the app is capable of natively controlling

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