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Best answer by Tim_OVO

Updated on 14/09/23 by Abby_OVO

 

Great to see your interest in analysing your smart meter usage data. As you’ve found there’s plenty of data provided via the ‘Usage’ pages of your online account or OVO app (download for Android or iOS).

 

 

As you mentioned, our Help Centre article confirms:
 

Download energy use data

 

We’re sorry but you can’t download your energy use data online yet – we’re working on making this happen. If you’d like a copy for your records, the only way to do this is copy and paste the data or to print the screen from your browser.

 

We’re constantly working to improve the tools available to help you manage your energy use so welcome this valuable feedback on what you’d like to see in future.

40 replies

Firedog
Super User
Super User
March 30, 2023

… mechanisms which have been officially endorsed and documented to be used by third parties.

 

Sorry to be dim, but I don’t have a clue what this means. As far as I’m concerned, there are only two parties involved - me and OVO. The fact that OVO then farm out some of the functionality to a different company doesn’t affect me. I should perhaps add that my development days are well behind me, but I do waste a lot of time extracting data from the account website that isn’t immediately apparent to the ordinary user. Are you suggesting that this is in some way illegal? I can’t find anything about ‘reverse engineering’ or anything similar in the OVO T&Cs or privacy policy ...

Noel | I have no official status; I'm just a volunteer who comes here to help other customers. My gear: Aclara SGM 1416-B Electricity-only E7 meter; Chameleon IHD3-PPMID-AAA | It may look as if I know what I’m talking about, but don’t let that fool you. |
BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
March 30, 2023

If you think about it @Firedog using various feeds the ‘data’ is out there via several sources. Some use API or other interfaces to extract and present that in a variety of ways. If you are still not fully adopted by DCC then your data might not be available and anyone who hasn’t given other providers access might struggle but I believe there is direct access from DCC for those with appropriate skills https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/media/6106/con_u1_2_duis_31_ddmmyyyy_clean.pdf

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Firedog
Super User
Super User
March 30, 2023

… I believe there is direct access from DCC for those with appropriate skills 

 

I haven’t looked into this in any detail, but I certainly got the impression that the safeguards DCC has in place to ensure that only fit and proper persons have access to the data they control are pretty robust. Are you suggesting that there are skilled cowboys out there bypassing DCC’s checks?

But we’ve wandered a bit off the original topic, which was how to get hold of our own data. I can’t even access the data that one little box in my house is sending to another little box a few meters away, let alone anybody else’s. Bright can, though, so I can at least see more or less the same on my PC as I can on my IHD.

 

Noel | I have no official status; I'm just a volunteer who comes here to help other customers. My gear: Aclara SGM 1416-B Electricity-only E7 meter; Chameleon IHD3-PPMID-AAA | It may look as if I know what I’m talking about, but don’t let that fool you. |
BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
March 31, 2023

… I believe there is direct access from DCC for those with appropriate skills 

 

... Are you suggesting that there are skilled cowboys out there bypassing DCC’s checks?

No, not at all

But we’ve wandered a bit off the original topic, which was how to get hold of our own data. 

there are API and MQTT calls available for your own data via any service you have signed up to so you could get that now if you have a feed via Bright

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Rank 4
April 25, 2023

Hello, can anyone advise me where the energy usage (both gas and electricity) is shown as a monthly % ?.
Ie., for example January = 10%, February = 12%, March = 8 %, etc as a part of 100% for the year.

If it was available for a three bed semi house then that would be even better.

Many thanks

Colin W

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 25, 2023

Not a feature right now I’m afraid. But it could be!

https://forum.ovoenergy.com/ideas 

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Rank 4
April 25, 2023

It should be, OVO has the numbers and it’s a simple sum. Should be available by size of house and/or household.
I don’t know how to rectify an issue if I don’t know if I have an issue !
I feel it would help us all manage our usage. Finding out a year later that we burnt more then the uk average is useless.
Just my view.

SianiAnni
Rank 4
Rank 4
December 8, 2024

I left Ovo for Octopus a few years back for this very reason.

I now have a heat pump and my installer is keen for me to switch back to Ovo in order to benefit from the heat pump plus tariff. There are a couple of reasons why I’m hesitant

  • I have invested in one of the Ripple energy farms, with my ‘returns’ being savings via my Octopus bills, and although many more suppliers are starting to partner with Ripple, it seems that Ovo is not yet on the horizon.​​​​​​​
  • The lack of progress on customers being able to download their own half-hourly data! 

I did get a GlowMarkt account earlier this year, and can download some of my data from there, but it’s just more convenient to download from Octopus, which gives me the last 24 months of data i.e. more than I can get from GlowMarket at the moment.
 

SianiAnni
Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
December 8, 2024

This thread is actually outdated - you can now export usage data via MyOVO and the OVO Energy app in CSV format.

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SianiAnni
Rank 4
Rank 4
December 8, 2024

This thread is actually outdated - you can now export usage data via MyOVO and the OVO Energy app in CSV format.

That’s great news😀

SianiAnni