Using Octopus Home Mini from Linux - how?

Does it connect to the phone by Bluetooth? Or does the phone connect to the Octopus servers?

When you know that you can figure where to go next with your laptop.

The Mini sends the data to the Octopus servers and the phone app picks it up from there.

The way to get the data out of Octopus is via their API. They have two - a REST API which is simpler to use but has limited reach, and a GraphQL API which is richer but more complicated: https://docs.octopus.energy/ I've not experimented with the live meter readings from the Mini. But there are a lot of projects out there which use the API and plug into systems like Home Assistant, and lots of Python/etc code to talk to the API.

It looks like somebody has written the GraphQL query to get the Home Mini data:

(I did mess about with the GraphQL to try to get the times of their free energy hours, but that was a trial and they hadn't implemented that on the API at that point so I didn't get far. There's also a Home Assistant script which automatically enrolls you in every 'saving session' using the API, which did work for me.)

Theo

Thanks Theo, that's just what I wanted to know, now I can do some sensible searches to find what I want.

FWIW there appear to be two APIs:

https://docs.octopus.energy/is labelled 'Octopus Energy API Documentation'

and https://developer.octopus.energy/is "Octopus Energy UK API Documentation"

Since they operate in other countries now, I suppose the bottom one is the more relevant one. But don't know for sure.

Theo