Guides for homes with solar, batteries, EVs, and heat pumps.
Practical guides to Octopus tariff conflicts, battery behaviour, and whole-home coordination, written for homeowners, not engineers.
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Fogstar batteries with Solis or LuxPowerTek: what customers need
Fogstar batteries can pair with Solis and LuxPowerTek systems. Here is why customers still need one clear app for battery, EV charging and tariff behaviour.
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Manual tariff setup for solar battery and EV homes
How UK solar battery and EV homes should set manual import periods, export rate and standing charge before trusting cost views or Smart Control.
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New customer setup guide: settings and devices
A practical 1app.energy onboarding guide for new customers: connect supported devices, set tariffs, choose Smart Control and check hardware.
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Home battery export checks before selling stored energy
A practical UK guide to home battery export: tariff source, reserve floor, EV load, export limits and verified inverter control before selling stored energy.
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Solis inverter on Octopus Agile: how control works
How 1app.energy uses Octopus Agile with Solis inverter homes: visibility, Smart Control modes, EV context, tariff prices and battery limits.
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Zappi CT mapping for solar battery homes: what to check
A practical guide to Zappi CT mapping, CT direction and Harvi source settings for clearer solar, battery, EV and whole-home dashboard views.
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Home energy dashboard source of truth: what to check
How to check whether a solar, battery, EV and tariff dashboard uses the right source for import, export, daily cost and battery throughput data.
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Intelligent Octopus Go and home batteries: Charge Cap explained
What Intelligent Octopus Go Charge Cap means for solar battery and EV homes, and how to stop smart charging quietly draining a home battery where supported.
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Solis, Zappi and Octopus setup checklist
A practical Solis, Zappi and Octopus setup checklist for cleaner battery, EV, tariff, topology and whole-home energy data before enabling control.
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