Meet the Octopus Home Mini

The simple way to track your energy in real time, right from your phone.

The Octopus Home Mini is a brand new, cutting-edge device that makes understanding your energy use easier than ever. Just plug it in to beam your smart meter's data straight to your Octopus Energy app, so you can see your electricity use in near real time.

Check out what our very first alpha testers had to say so far...

The Octopus Home Mini is a small, palm-sized device that connects to your smart meter and beams live readings from your smart meter to our cloud-based platform Kraken, so we can show you up-to-the-minute smart insights via your Octopus Energy app.

The Octopus Home Mini takes a reading every few seconds, which opens up all sorts of possibilities.

This is our first foray into the world of hardware, and like all our other innovative products, we've released the Octopus Home Mini in beta so we can iterate it based on real user feedback.

We've trialled a handful of prototypes with alpha testers and now there are a few hundred Octopus Home Minis out in the wild. We'll keep building and releasing them in small batches while we run our own checks; learning and working out kinks as we go.

We see this new level of data analysis as a vital step towards a cheaper, smarter, greener, all electric system; a system that empowers customers to be an important part of the solution.

We've invested our own resources in this project, and our wonderful team has worked incredibly hard (you can meet one of them here).

We appreciate that whenever we put something out there people will discuss it, and really treasure constructive feedback, but please do it mindfully.

When people go overboard with the 'why haven't I got one yet’ or 'it’s rubbish because it doesn’t do this', it does chip away at the enthusiasm of the people who pour their efforts into creating and building these exciting new things.