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Why doesn't the OVO app show half-hourly usage costs?

  • November 8, 2021
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Hello,

 

My daily usage on my OVO app used to show in pounds and pence but has now changed to Watts. My monthly usage still shows in pounds and pence though.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

Thanks

 

Best answer by Blastoise186

 Updated on 26/06/23 by Emmanuelle_OVO

 

If you notice any missing readings here too there’s a chance we could be experiencing some communication issues with your smart meters in which case we’d recommend carrying out a smart meter health check for your meter type below, there’s a online form that you can fill in that will be sent automictically to the right team:
 

 

No worries. I’ve never known the Half-Hourly data under Daily view to show in cost if memory serves, but it’s not really that useful if pretty much all of it says 1p for 98% of the country.

It’s also not really something that I could consider worth trying to fix either. Maybe someday though...

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Mw2870
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November 8, 2021

Welcome to the forum @Iggo99

Do you mean the app on your phone? What sort of phone do you have?

Iggo99Author
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November 8, 2021

Thanks @Mw2870 .

 

I do mean the app on my phone. I can't find any sort of "display" settings to amend. It was showing my daily usage on the phone app in pounds and pence and has now gone to Watts. Monthly usage has stayed in pounds and pence though 🤷‍♂️

 

I have a Samsung S20 (I think...)

Mw2870
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November 8, 2021

 

 

I have a Samsung S20 (I think...)

Cool! I don’t have access to the Android version of the app, but hopefully someone who does will be along shortly with some advice!

Blastoise186
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November 8, 2021

Like me by any chance? XD

I’ve just been watching this thread over the last half hour, mainly to see how things play out.

This is one that’s come up a few times, so I’m aware of it. The Daily view in the app is actually for Half-Hourly usage data where it’s not practical to show the cost in money because it’s usually too small a value to actually be meaningful. Monthly view shows daily data and Yearly view shows monthly. Make sure to switch to either of those two tabs to see the cost option re-appear!

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Blastoise186
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November 8, 2021

Mind you, when I think about it… This probably could be better explained in the app with some kind of tooltip or similar. Perhaps something like “Where’s the costs gone? Daily view can’t show costs because most of the time it would be under 1p for each half-hourly slot. Please flip to Monthly view if you’d like to see your costs.

Thanks for bringing this up by the way @Iggo99 . I’ll have a chat with Tim and Jess in case they’re able to feed this back to the team.

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Mw2870
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November 8, 2021

I’m a product manager for a software company and I constantly annoy my team with the following rhetoric…. “if a user has to log a support ticket/forum post to work out how to do something, we probably haven’t made it simple enough”

Now that may be a utopian land I dream of, but we have to dream….

Iggo99Author
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November 8, 2021

@Blastoise186 thanks for the response!

 

I am sure that it did used to show me a daily break down in pounds and pence though? 

 

I'm not sure if my tariff change may have affected somehow?

 

It's not a massive deal to be honest I did just prefer to view it in monetary value as opposed to watts.

 

Thanks all!

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
November 9, 2021

 Updated on 26/06/23 by Emmanuelle_OVO

 

If you notice any missing readings here too there’s a chance we could be experiencing some communication issues with your smart meters in which case we’d recommend carrying out a smart meter health check for your meter type below, there’s a online form that you can fill in that will be sent automictically to the right team:
 

 

No worries. I’ve never known the Half-Hourly data under Daily view to show in cost if memory serves, but it’s not really that useful if pretty much all of it says 1p for 98% of the country.

It’s also not really something that I could consider worth trying to fix either. Maybe someday though...

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eezytiger
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November 9, 2021

Note 20 Ultra.…

 

I'm not sure I'd gain any value from breaking those numbers down into 48 X 30 minute chunks. This is ample for my needs. In fact I care less about the £ than the kWh. I can't change the price, only how much fuel I use.

Newcomer
December 6, 2021

The daily usage feature seems to be no longer working on the app and the website account.  For quite a while now it’s been saying:

Looks like we couldn’t find your usage data

We’ll take a look at this shortly, please try again later.

But this hasn’t been fixed yet.

Will it ever be fixed as it was really useful to look at the Kwh usage per hour (or half hour?) each day to see where the spikes of electricity usage are, especially now the energy prices are so high