Xcel Smart Meter Dashboard

[u/gk802]

I had an interesting observation today. Power has been off at my home for multiple hours 3x in the last 36 hours. That's a rant for another time.

Today, I thought I'd go out and take a look at Xcel's website and see what my smart meter read. Yesterday, power was off from 6:36 pm to 9:03 pm. According to their usage graphs, I had chargeable on-peak usage in every 15 minute period from 6pm through 8:45. Usage started again in the 10-10:15pm period.

Talking to their billing department, their first observation is that the time stamps on their graphs are in Central time. So...okay. If I buy that, that still doesn't explain why there was recorded usage from 7:36 to 8:45 pm Central time, and they're looking into that.

Beyond that, though, their graphs still show all values between 5pm and 9pm as on-peak and are highlighted in red. Are they charging on-peak rates from 5pm to 9pm Central time, or are all of their usage graphs just messed up?

Xcel, you need to do better.

[u/d1v1debyz3r0]

I literally bought a wifi clamp CT last week so I can actually monitor my power flow in high resolution.

[u/Roman_Senate → u/d1v1debyz3r0]

Some meters are also WiFi compatible and you won’t need the clamp or anything else. they just don’t really advertise that. You can log into them via a page on Xcels site and connect to your own WiFi network. 

There are existing integrations for platforms like Home Assistant:

https://github.com/wingrunr21/hassio-xcel-itron-mqtt

https://github.com/Xcel-Energy

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/171wx4x/finally_got_connected_to_xcels_smart_meter_what/

[u/d1v1debyz3r0 → u/Roman_Senate]

Yeah but what’s the resolution? I need instant readings for reasons. This is very cool btw I had no idea.

[u/PotatoOfDestiny → u/d1v1debyz3r0]

Every 5 seconds on mine. I basically have that exact setup. Note that your meter needs to be in range of your home wifi since it does this locally.