Make Your Home Smarter in 2026: The Automations Customers Actually Use | Supergroup Live [FjJSI72yTL9]
⚡️Want a smarter home that actually saves you money (and helps the grid)? In this Supergroup live session, Phil dives into real-world smart energy setup: EV charging, home batteries, solar, and heat pumps, and shows how people are using automations, dashboards, and smart tariffs to make their energy work harder for them. You’ll also hear from four brilliant real life customers about their own setups: Chris: solar → battery → heat pump tweaks (including weather-curve adjustments) + Home Assistant dashboards Stuart: early EV adopter, V2G experience, and bringing everything into one place Mick (EnergyStats UK): Agile, data, and what you can do with the Octopus API Mick's website - Twitter / X: Nicki: Agile habits, Octopus Watch alerts, and making the most of cheap/negative prices What you’ll learn ✅ What “smart home” actually means ✅ How people spot cheap slots (and use them) without living on an electricity spreadsheet ✅ Home Assistant: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get started ✅ APIs: how your tech talks to your tariff and why that matters for automation ✅ Live Q&A on batteries, Powerwalls, smart meters, Home Assistant dashboards + more Find the full customer chats with Phil here: Chris Hill - Stuart Humphrey - Mick Wall - Nicki Slater-Arnold - ---- 00:00 Intro 03:15 IOG Update 04:10 The Smart Home 05:15 Customer 1: Chris Hill 09:18 Home Assistant Dashboard 11:05 Customer 2: Stuart Humphrey 14:34 The Addicts Curve 16:45 Customer 3: Mick Wall 21:14 Tariff Choices 23:14 Customer 4: Nicki Slater-Arnold 25:18 An app for everything? 27:15 All about the APIs 29:06 Energy Grid Flexibility 31:26 Q&A Starts 31:36 Battery taking expensive electricity from the Grid 34:40 How to Octopus manage batteries? 36:40 Using home assistant 37:28 When will Octopus do their own battery? 39:08 Can you use Home Assistant if Octopus didn’t install the system? 41:44 Could Octopus make a Home-Assistant-style app? 43:18 Official Home Assistant support? 45:08 Submitting feature requests for the API? 46:58 What’s the best starting point to optimise my tech? 50:09 Stop the house battery discharging when the car charges 50:49 What are the obstacles to a tariff that controls both car and home battery? 53:06 Kraken sometimes misses half-hour readings and billing goes wrong, any fix? 54:52 Why don’t smart meters connect via home Wi-Fi? 55:05 How did the South of England EV trial go? 56:38 Do Cozy heat pumps support Modbus for data gathering? 57:00 Could Octopus survey customers to learn who has solar / batteries / EVs / chargers?