Menu bar recipes for home and energy

Run the dishwasher when power is cheap and clean. These meters go green, yellow and red with the price or the grid.

A few of these recipes as live meters, on sample values.

3 recipes

Show the Octopus Agile price in your Mac menu barThe current half-hour Octopus Agile unit rate in pence per kWh, live in your Mac menu bar, green when cheap and red at the peak. Public API, no account key needed. (Script meter)
Show the UK grid’s carbon intensity in your Mac menu barHow clean the UK electricity grid is right now, in gCO2/kWh, for the whole country or your postcode, in your Mac menu bar. National Grid ESO data, no key. (Web Address meter)
Show a Home Assistant sensor in your Mac menu barPut any Home Assistant entity in your Mac menu bar: temperature, humidity, solar output, EV charge, power use or a count of lights on. REST API, long-lived token, tested. (Script meter)

Something else?

If it has a number, it can be a meter. Read it from a web address or JSON API, a shell command, a file, or send it with a multimeter:// link.

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