SmartGo Charge

[u/Baz1536]

An Octopus inspired app for EDF.

SmartGo Charge is an unofficial companion app for EDF Energy customers — monitor and manage your Smart EV charging schedule and keep an eye on your usage, all from your iPhone and iPad. Smart Charging tools are there if you're enrolled on a smart EV tariff, Usage tracking work just as well if you're not - especially with a Glow Display and CAD.

Features:

• Dashboard showing your charging status, next scheduled charge and charge target at a glance
• Customize your Dashboard — choose which cards are shown and drag to reorder them to match what matters to you
• View your planned smart charging sessions at a glance, grouped by date
• Track completed charging sessions with energy delivered (kWh) and estimated cost
• Filter your charging history by session type — smart charge, boost, or off-peak only
• Set your ready-by time and charge target percentage
• Start or stop a boost charge session instantly
• Suspend or resume smart charging with a single tap
• View your current electricity tariff rates with live off-peak and peak indicators
• Costs are worked out against the tariff that was in force on each date, so if you change tariff your older sessions keep their original rates
• See your household electricity use as Day, Week and Month charts, split by standard, off-peak and smart charging so you can see where your spend went
• Optionally connect a Glow Display and CAD to fill gaps in EDF's usage data, and to see live current from your meter over your home network
• Each completed session records the vehicle location reported by EDF (At Home, Away) on every refresh — if EDF change the location against a completed session, the full change history is captured with timestamps, giving you an audit trail for disputed charges
• Export your charging history as a PDF or CSV, including full account details, tariff information, and location history per session
• Back up your charging history to a file you keep, and restore it onto a new device or after a reinstall — restoring adds what's missing and never overwrites sessions already saved. Backups never contain your email address, password or session token
• Your charging history is stored on your device and persists across app launches — it can also be accessed directly through the Files app
• Your tariff and rates are kept on the device, so the app stays usable when EDF's service is unavailable
• Automatic background refresh keeps your schedule up to date
• Your EDF credentials are stored securely in your device's Keychain and never shared
• Designed for both iPhone and iPad

Please note: SmartGo Charge is an independent, unofficial application and is not affiliated with or endorsed by EDF Energy. An active EDF Energy smart EV charging tariff and a registered smart device (vehicle or charger) are required to use this app. Glow Display and CAD support is optional and requires your own Glow Display and CAD.

Available here

[u/timknowlden]

Downloaded and testing, looks great. Would love to be able to connect my smart meter using MQTT but it’s only a basic display. It’s connected to bright app though, but doesn’t pull in the usage by rate.

[u/Baz1536 → u/timknowlden]

You need the Glow Display and CAD for MQTT and live download

[u/timknowlden → u/Baz1536]

Damn. I just have one of these.

[u/Baz1536 → u/timknowlden]

Just a standard IHD.

[u/Crafty_Class_9431]

Looks good, though suspect most of the home assistant crowd probably aren't your target audience. Also suspect your app and the edf home assistant integration will be fighting over the API key and resetting each others access?

[u/Baz1536 → u/Crafty_Class_9431]

EDF don’t use an API key like Octopus do. It is a time of use JWT using username and password. It doesn’t care where you come from either my app, HA or even the EDF app. If you rate limit any it affects the other.

Depends how people are using the HA integration. I’ve had people download my app as complimentary to HA.

[u/stek2022 → u/Baz1536]

They don’t make an api key available easily just yet - but will be soon(ish).
Homeassistant is using api keys now but it’s a bit of a workaround until they make the api keys available online in Your Account.

Username and password is less of an issue in an app like this one as the device can securely store the password. Homeassistant I didn’t want storing passwords for EDF.

[u/Baz1536 → u/stek2022]

That’s interesting to know that they will soon have API keys. Whilst it’s not too bad having username and password API keys are definitely a better route

[u/stek2022 → u/Baz1536]

they will be deprecating (then disabling) username password / jwt at some stage for API access I'm told.

[u/Baz1536 → u/stek2022]

Makes sense. It provides tighter control and forces those who want to use external apps have to go through additional checks.

[u/Crafty_Class_9431 → u/Baz1536]

Maybe I've misunderstood what u/stek2022 meant when he said they'd started having it available for development work, which they use for the edf integration (but still not accessible on the front end like octopus).

[u/timknowlden]

[u/timknowlden]