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Home and tariff settings

Keep property details, usage context and confirmed electricity prices accurate so planning uses the right terms.

Reviewed

Home & tariff has three sections across the top: House details, Energy setup, and Vehicle & charging. Open a section to edit it. You can also reopen the same answers from Settings > Overview > Household readiness.

House details

Name, timezone and location come from household setup. Property details are optional. Major flexible loads are stored for later work; they do not change planner decisions yet.
Home & tariff House details with home identity, map location, property details and energy profiling.

Name, timezone and location come from household setup. Property details are optional. Major flexible loads are stored for later work; they do not change planner decisions yet.

Energy setup

Provider and hardware values can be filled from a connection. Refresh devices if something looks stale. Save energy setup after you correct a missing solar size or limit.
Home & tariff Energy setup with retailer, inverter, battery and solar fields.

Provider and hardware values can be filled from a connection. Refresh devices if something looks stale. Save energy setup after you correct a missing solar size or limit.

Vehicle and charging

Refresh from Tesla updates identity. Charger type, power and current are the limits used to judge whether a charging plan can finish on time.
Home & tariff Vehicle section with Tesla identity and home charger limits.

Refresh from Tesla updates identity. Charger type, power and current are the limits used to judge whether a charging plan can finish on time.

Confirming prices

Amber homes use wholesale prices. Until the simpler Amber sign-in is ready, connect with an Amber API token created in your Amber account.
Energy provider step with Amber selected and an API token field.

Amber homes use wholesale prices. Until the simpler Amber sign-in is ready, connect with an Amber API token created in your Amber account.

Other retailers cannot send live prices, so you confirm the plan used for battery and EV behaviour.
Finding a published retail plan and matching the bill’s rate option.

Other retailers cannot send live prices, so you confirm the plan used for battery and EV behaviour.

Bill-assisted capture is one way to confirm a retail plan. Review the extracted rates before they are used.
Upload your electricity bill as a PDF, JPEG or PNG.

Bill-assisted capture is one way to confirm a retail plan. Review the extracted rates before they are used.

Use this if the catalogue or bill upload is not a match.
Enter rates manually with daily supply charge and GST.

Use this if the catalogue or bill upload is not a match.

Amber homes use wholesale prices. Until the simpler Amber sign-in is ready, connect with an Amber API token generated in your Amber account. Other retailers cannot send live prices, so you confirm the plan used for battery and EV behaviour.

For a retail plan, search the retailer, then find a published plan, upload a recent bill, or enter rates manually. Match the rate option on the bill, including any controlled-load or solar feed-in terms. Review import, feed-in, free periods and other conditions before you confirm. Retail-plan optimisation is currently in beta; normal device and safety checks still apply.

Planning uses only the snapshot you confirm. A later catalogue refresh does not silently replace it.
Plan rates and conditions waiting for customer confirmation.

Planning uses only the snapshot you confirm. A later catalogue refresh does not silently replace it.

Check every time-of-use window, day and month against the bill.
Import rate schedule with peak and off-peak windows.

Check every time-of-use window, day and month against the bill.

After confirmation, Grid and Home & tariff show this static schedule. It is not Amber wholesale pricing.
Saved retail plan shown as a 24-hour import, solar export and demand-window schedule.

After confirmation, Grid and Home & tariff show this static schedule. It is not Amber wholesale pricing.

Planning uses only the snapshot you confirm. A later catalogue refresh does not silently replace it.

Supported confirmed plans can include time-of-use windows, seasons and daylight saving in the home’s time zone. Free periods and demand windows are opportunities or protections, not a promise that the battery will charge for an entire window or remove demand charges.