Trick to save on electricity bill
These automations that we can do in Shortcuts, can be done in any country. You will only have to know the time slots of each electricity rate. In Spain, since June 1, the time frames of the different rates have changed and that is why we make this great tutorial that we recommend you share with all those who want to save money
Now the sections are from 0h.-8h. valley rate ; from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. flat rate ; between 10am-2pm. peak rate; from 14:00 to 18:00. flat rate ; from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. peak rate and between 22h-0h. flat rate. Weekends are all valley rates, the cheapest.
Well then, we are going to configure the iPhone so that it shows us what rate of the day we are in and thus be able to adapt our domestic tasks to avoid that the electricity bill is more expensive.
At the end of the video we link the video in which we explain how to do EVERYTHING, step by step.
Save on your electricity bill thanks to these automations for iPhone:
The first thing we have to do is choose 3 photos that we want to have as wallpaper. To make it more visual we have chosen a green screen background, another yellow and another red.
Colorful wallpapers
Obviously you can do it with the photographs you want. You can even edit any photo and add a color point to distinguish them, for example in this way:
Color points to save on electricity bills
Once we have them, we have to upload them to iCloud and place them in the Shortcuts folder.
Shortcuts folder in iCloud Drive
After uploading them to icloud, we started setting up the automation. You have to do one for each time slot. In the case of Spain we have to create 6 automations.
Money Saving Automations:
We enter the Shortcuts app and do the following:
- Click on “Automation” .
- We select "Create personal automation".
- Click on “time of day” .
- Click on the box where the time appears and put
- 0:00h for valley rate
- 8:00h flat rate
- 10:00h peak rate
- 2:00 p.m. flat rate
- 18:00h peak rate
- 22:00h flat rate
- Tap anywhere on the screen to make the numeric keyboard disappear.
- In the options that appear below, we select every day since it is a rate that will be repeated at the same time every day. In all other automations you must select Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
- Now click on «Next» .
- Click on "Add action" .
- In the search engine we put "Get file" and select it in the list that appears at the bottom of the screen.
- In "Service" we have to have "iCloud Drive" configured. We deactivate "Show documentation selector" and in file path we put the name of the wallpaper file that we want to appear to distinguish each rate.To copy the name of the file, we access the Files app, we enter iCloud Drive, we access the Shortcuts folder and we keep pressing the file of the wallpaper that we want to put. From the options that appear, we choose "information" and hold down its name to copy it (if you are not sure, see the video that we attach below).
- Paste the file name in the “File Path” .
- Click on "+" and in the search engine we put "Set wallpaper" and select it.
- Click on "Home screen" and deselect it from the menu that appears. After this, click on "Ok" .
- Click on "Show more" and deactivate "Show preview" .
- Now click on "Next" and deactivate the option "Request confirmation" .
- Click «Ok» .
Now we have to configure the other automations to save on electricity consumption:
Now we will have to do this with each of the hourly sections of the different electricity rates. It is somewhat heavy but the savings that you are going to get with this tutorial is worth wasting 5-10 minutes to do it.
Note that the other rates, apart from changing the wallpaper file in each one of them, you have to specify the days on which they will be activated. All of them will be from Monday to Friday.
Our funds have been configured as follows:
- Green: Valley rate.
- Yellow: Flat rate.
- Red: Peak rate.
If it has not been very clear to you, we are going to pass you this video in which we explain everything step by step:
We hope you found it interesting and share it with everyone who wants to save on electricity bills. I'm sure there are many.
Greetings.
