Your SolaX, planned every half hour.
Orza reads your SolaX through SolaX Cloud and works out, each half hour, what your battery should do from your tariff’s prices, your roof’s sun and how your home uses power. SolaX’s cloud lets other apps read and not control, so the plan comes to you as advice, with its reason.
Connected with your SolaX Cloud tokenId. Nothing to install.
Orza reaches your SolaX through SolaX Cloud, as the SolaX app does. No hub, no box and nothing on your home network.
- Copy your tokenId from SolaX CloudLog in at solaxcloud.com, open Service, then API (on newer accounts, Third-party ecosystem), and copy your tokenId.
- Add the registration numberIt is on the Wi-Fi dongle, and in the SolaX app. Paste both into Orza: they are encrypted before they are stored.
- Check the first readingOrza shows the battery’s charge and what the house is using, and asks whether that matches the SolaX app.
- Tell it the restYour battery’s size and your panels, which Orza does not read from SolaX, then your supplier. The first plan follows soon after.
What Orza reads from SolaX Cloud, and nothing made up.
Every figure Orza shows about your battery comes from SolaX Cloud or from you. This is what it reads.
- Every five minutesSolar from each string, the inverter’s output, the grid, battery power and the battery’s charge level.
- House use, worked outSolaX does not report what the house is using. Orza works it out from what it does report: the inverter’s output, less what went to the grid.
- No history to read backSolaX Cloud gives the present moment only. If you are with Octopus, up to a year of your usage comes from there by itself. Otherwise Orza learns it from your own readings as it goes.
- What you tell itThe battery’s size and your panels. Orza does not read them from SolaX, so setup asks.
- What Orza does not readBattery temperature and state of health. Orza shows them as not reported. It never fills them in.
A plan for the next 36 hours, remade every half hour.
Orza works out a schedule for your SolaX: when it should charge, hold its charge and run the house, across every half hour it can see at once. Each decision comes with the reason beside it, and Savings shows what the plan would have cost against what your battery really did.
See the app, page by pageWhat the plan is made from
- Your tariff’s pricesOctopus connects with an API key, so your tariff’s prices arrive by themselves, half-hourly ones such as Agile’s included. For British Gas, OVO, E.ON Next, EDF and ScottishPower you enter your tariff.
- Your roof’s sunWhat your roof really made at the same times over the last few days, checked against the forecast.
- Your homeHow much the home uses and when it is busiest, learned from its own readings.
- Your battery’s lossesEvery kWh that goes through the battery loses a little on the way. The plan pays for that loss, so it only moves energy through the battery when the price difference covers it.
Orza plans. You set the battery.
SolaX’s cloud lets other apps read your system and nothing more, so Orza never changes your battery. Its plan comes to you as advice.
- Monitor onlyRead-only. Orza works out what its plan would have saved and sends nothing.
- AssistedOrza’s plan as advice every half hour. You decide what the battery does, and set it in the SolaX app.
- Automatic controlNot for a SolaX. Its cloud only lets other apps read, so Orza can’t run this battery.
- PausedOrza stops planning.
Before you connect your SolaX.
The short answers. The technical FAQ covers how the connection works, how the plan is built and how the saving is scored.
Read the technical FAQDoes Orza replace the SolaX app?
No. Keep it for warranty registration, firmware updates and safety alerts. Orza sits alongside it as the plan, reaching your system through the same cloud the SolaX app uses.
Is Orza a smart scheduler for my SolaX?
Yes. Every half hour Orza works out a schedule for your SolaX: when to charge from the grid, when to hold and when to run the house, from your tariff’s prices, the forecast for your roof and how your home uses power. It gives the reason for each half hour, and remakes the schedule when new prices are published. SolaX’s cloud does not let other apps change the battery, so you set the schedule yourself in the SolaX app.
Can Orza run my SolaX for me?
No. SolaX’s cloud lets other apps read your system and nothing more, so Orza cannot change your battery. It plans every half hour, tells you what it would do and why, and you set the battery in the SolaX app.
What do I get if Orza can’t control it?
The plan, the reason behind each half hour, and a saving you can check. Savings shows what Orza’s plan would have cost against what your battery really did, day by day, including the days the plan lost.
Which tariffs does it plan around?
Octopus, British Gas, OVO, E.ON Next, EDF and ScottishPower tariffs, including dynamic and time of use tariffs for import and export. A plan is worth most on a dynamic tariff such as Octopus Agile, where the price changes every half hour.
What happens if my internet or SolaX Cloud goes down?
Your battery carries on under its own settings. Orza is never in the power path. The half hours it couldn’t read are shown as missing, and left out of your savings rather than guessed.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta. No card is needed to join.
See what Orza would do with your SolaX.
Free during the beta. Connect in a few minutes, and start in Monitor only.