My Energy Connection 4+
Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy Inc.
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
A Live Look at Usage
Follow as your electricity rises and falls on the live energy speedometer. Watch how it changes when major appliances turn on or off.
Always Stay Connected
Get peace of mind knowing that you can still see your usage while not at home. The energy speedometer is replaced with a graph of readings, updated every 15 minutes.
Cost and Usage Data
Find your historical usage data and related cost estimates under Usage. BONUS: If you're on Time of Use, you can see your peak period, time frame, and rate.
Before downloading, please keep in mind:
· You must be an Xcel Energy customer with a smart meter installed.
· Your Wi-Fi network credentials will be required to connect your meter.
· You’ll need to be connected to Wi-Fi, and your meter must be within network range.
Accounts with multiple service addresses are not eligible.
See more at https://my.xcelenergy.com/s/billing-payment/energy-insights
What’s New
Version 1.0.6
Minor UI tweaks and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Not great
App is overly tied to the limitations of same WiFi network for realtime use. Doesn't matter the 2.4g and 5g are the same ip space, I’m forced to connect to the 2.4g in order to see the realtime. Changing WiFi networks works on every 10th try, app disconnects and reconnects on random. Hot garbage at best, but I’m excited to see my realtime use when it’s up long enough to see.
Tips to the dev, store relevant device name/ip info in the app for faster reconnect and get rid of the same WiFi network nonsense we learned how to fix in 2014.
Real time data doesn’t work
Checked my WiFi router and confirmed the device is on the 2.4ghz band. Real time data still doesn’t work. Really unimpressed as it sounds like this is a common issue. I can see in my router dashboard that the meter uploads data every 7 hours like clockwork, but can’t do real time data? Some really bad technical design going on behind this app or the smart meter design. Really confusing considering it’s the focal selling point of this app?
Latest update broke the realtime functionality
Unfortunately the latest app update broke the realtime usage feature which is the primary use of the app. It shows the same value for each poll of the “my current usage” in watts. If this isn’t resolved there is no point in using the app beyond seeing aggregated historical data which isn’t all that useful.
App Privacy
The developer, Xcel Energy Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Xcel Energy Inc.
- Size
- 78.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Xcel Energy
- Price
- Free