Getting Started
Connect the meter → choose one device → confirm settings → preview and activate.
Before you begin
Install PELS on Homey Pro, with a whole-home meter and a suitable device available in Homey.
Open PELS settings
Open More → Apps → PELS → Settings, then Set up PELS on Overview. You can also open Settings > Setup & recommendations. Use Continue to move through the settings that apply to your home.
Step 1: Connect your power meter
Check the detected source and current reading. If you need to select a meter, choose Power source > Power meter, then Whole-home meter. PELS can adopt the only whole-home meter marked Tracks total home energy consumption in Homey, unless it has already received Flow readings.
If your source needs a Flow, use Report power usage with current power in watts. For solar, send net import, negative when exporting. Meter setup details.
No meter readings?
Check the selected meter in Homey and whether its reading changes. For a Fluvius P1 reader, activate the user port through Mijn Fluvius and check the P1 or GP indicator on the meter. Activation can take up to 72 hours.
Step 2: Choose one device
Turn on Managed by PELS for one suitable device. For devices with power readings, this also enables Power-limit control. Open Device settings to review what PELS may change.
If a device you want PELS to control is not listed, choose Request support on the Missing a device? card below the list. It lists the devices in Homey that PELS does not support; tap the one you want to send a device support request. Support usually comes in an app update within 1–2 days, depending on how complex the device is. See Missing a device?.
A dynamic-price contract, battery, daily budget, and Smart task are not required. Solar comes later, on Choose what PELS does.
Step 3: Confirm relevant settings
Review the choices PELS shows for this home:
- Capacity limit applies to measured hourly or 15-minute average grid import. A new install starts with it on in Norway and Belgium, where households pay for measured peaks, and off everywhere else. Choose the period, hard cap, and safety margin, or turn it on or off to match how your grid charges you. Dutch household grid charges depend on connection size. When Capacity limit is on in the Netherlands, setup offers Turn off Capacity limit in one tap. Prices and solar keep working.
- Grid import limit is a separate choice for limiting current grid import. Use either limit, both, or neither.
- Prices appears in setup only when an enabled feature uses them.
In Flanders, use 15-minute average if your bill uses measured quarter-hour peaks. Use 15-minute average changes only the period; confirm your hard cap separately. Advice can be dismissed and never changes settings automatically.
Dutch connection tariffs and Flemish peak billing
Dutch bills also use “capacity tariff” for connection-capacity charges. PELS's Capacity limit concerns measured average peaks. ACM guidance.
For eligible Flemish digital-meter households, the 2.5 kW billing minimum is a billing rule, not a recommended PELS target. Highest completed quarter this month is based on readings received by PELS. It does not reproduce the operator's billing calculation, which applies its own minimums and aggregation. Vlaamse Nutsregulator guidance.
Choose what PELS does follows when a managed device has more to offer. It is the one place setup offers prices, solar and smart tasks. Each choice is optional and can be changed later on the device's page:
- Price-based control for heating and hot water: PELS raises the temperature a little in cheap hours and lowers it in expensive ones.
- New smart task for a device that can carry one: reach the goal you set, such as a battery level or a water temperature, by a ready-by time, in the cheapest available periods. Setup returns to this page once the task is saved.
- The device's solar action, once PELS has seen your solar produce more than the home is using:
| Device control | Setting |
|---|---|
| Temperature adjustment | Use solar surplus |
| On/off operation | Run on solar surplus |
| EV charging with suitable control | Charge on solar surplus |
| Other suitable stepped loads | Match solar surplus |
The page names where your prices come from. Turning on Price-based control or saving a smart task here keeps that price source.
With solar in Homey that has not yet produced more than the home is using, the page, the review and the device page say solar control is on its way. If your meter is a Flow, it must send net import, negative when exporting. Solar setup details.
After setup, PELS can do more for this home offers Choose what PELS does once, naming what applies and is not in use yet. Dismiss it if none of it is for you.
A home with solar and no export price also gets Set your export price, during setup as well: tell PELS what export pays, so its solar and battery plans can use it. Dismiss it if you are not paid for export.
Step 4: Preview and activate
Open Review setup. It lists what PELS will do with each device, such as Price-based control on or Smart task set, and the limits that apply. Power-limit control on shows only while a limit is in force; a device with nothing to do yet says so, and Choose what PELS does takes you back to the page above.
With no limit in force, the Overview says what PELS does for your home, for example No limit to hold. 1 device follows prices. With nothing set up yet, it reads No limit to hold.
Simulation mode is on means PELS is still previewing. Choose Start managing to enable control, or Keep simulating to return to Overview. The simulation banner's Review and start action brings you back.
A solar device showing Waiting for solar surplus can be correctly configured. Missing meter readings or an unavailable solar signal are separate conditions with their own checks.
Before adding a Smart task to a solar-only device, remember that the active task decides when it runs and may use grid electricity.
Your first setup needs a connected meter, one suitable managed device, and confirmation of the settings that apply. You can add more devices later.
Optional next steps
Modes and priorities
Priorities are assigned automatically. Change them or add custom modes under Settings > Modes when needed. For temperature devices, review the existing target. Configuration reference.
Price response
Choose a source under Settings > Electricity prices, then enable Price-based control on the temperature devices that should use it. Price-aware devices.
Smart tasks
Open Smart tasks > New smart task, choose a device and goal, then preview its ready-by time. Use Settings > Schedules for tasks created at fixed times on selected days, or Flows for events such as plugging in a car. Smart tasks guide.
Daily budget
Add a daily energy budget only if you want one.
Terminology and units
See the Glossary for units and PELS terms, and Limits & safety for the settings reference.