This month was mostly about what you see in the app, and about how closely your battery follows its plan. Here is what you notice at home.
The charts in your app are clearer
A few things made your charts harder to read than they should have been, and they have been put right.
Battery charging and discharging are now shown in the correct direction, so what looks like your battery filling up really is your battery filling up.
Small variations no longer get stretched into dramatic peaks. A calm day now looks like a calm day.
Your day is shown per quarter hour instead of in coarser blocks, so you can actually see when you used what.
Cleaner lines and correct labels along the axes.
You can see what your installation earns you
New on your dashboard: what your installation has delivered, in euros rather than kilowatt-hours. It covers your solar panels, your battery and your consumption together. We are working on splitting that out per device, so you will be able to see separately what your battery brings in.
Your battery reacts faster, so you buy less at the wrong moment
If you suddenly used more than expected (the oven on, the car plugged in), your battery could pick that up too late, and you would buy electricity from the grid for a while even though your battery was full. It now corrects against its plan much more promptly. In practice: fewer moments where you pay for power you already had at home.
Some installations were producing less than they could
On a number of installations the solar panels were being throttled back when there was no need for it. That is fixed. If yours was affected, you will have seen higher yield on sunny days since.
The forecast of your solar production got sharper
Your battery plans ahead based on how much sun is expected. That forecast was consistently a little off. Now that it is more accurate, your battery's plan lines up better with what actually happens during the day.
You are not locked to one brand
Helios now also works with Sungrow and Huawei, alongside Sofar. More importantly, you can mix them. If you want to add a second battery later from a different brand than your inverter, that works, and Helios steers them together. You are not tied to one manufacturer, or one supplier, for the life of your installation.
Your history stays complete
Older measurements did not always come through correctly. That is resolved, so your history and your monthly overviews stay accurate.