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OctoPlot

OctoPlot is a small command line tool that draws a graph of the Octopus Energy Agile pricing in your terminal.

Agile Octopus is a 100% green electricity tariff that regularly pays you to consume electricity. Welcome to the future.

If you are not already living in the future then you can switch to Octopus Energy and get £50 credit with this referral link.

Examples

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Download a pre-built self-contained binary from the releases page and decompress it to a folder.

Change directory to the folder in a command prompt.

Run the app in your terminal specifying the region ID character for the area you are interested in.

E.g. ./octoplot j for South East England. The default value is P (North Scotland).

Add the folder to your PATH if you want to run octoplot from anywhere.

Regions

These are the region codes:

EastEngland = "A"
EastMidlands = "B"
London = "C"
NorthWales = "D"
WestMidlands = "E"
NorthEastEngland = "F"
NorthWestEngland = "G"
SouthEngland = "H"
SouthEastEngland = "J"
SouthWales = "K"
SouthWestEngland = "L"
Yorkshire = "M"
SouthScotland = "N"
NorthScotland = "P"

Build

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Clone the repo.

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Run the tool for the region you are in.

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This project is treeware! If you found it useful then please plant a tree for me.

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