Yes meters are smart can view in British Gas app albeit a couple of days behind as always seams to be the case with the app
We pay by monthly fixed direct debit
So, yesterday, with two loads of washing done, the dishwasher on a clean only program, the TV on for around 5 hours and the electric oven on for around 30 minutes, the Bright App reports that we used £2.43 of leccy (including standing charge).
Pre energy crisis, that would’ve cost us around £0.90p 
My wife stayed over with a couple who are our friends the other night whilst away on a work trip. They used over £7 of leccy in one day, but that did include charging both their electric cars.
To those who use the budgeting features of energy monitoring apps, how do you decide on a budget? With weather being unpredictable and changing every month, I’m not sure how to set a useful weekly or monthly budget to aim for.
Best I can think of is look at how much KWh I used for same month last year (via historical bills) and set that as a budget and aim to use a bit less. Will require updating budget every month though.
I’m liking Hugo’s usage screen, but am finding the budget screen a bit confusing. I don’t understand the uncoupling between various elements that I would assume should be coupled. Specifically, when I update a KWh budget it doesn’t seem to auto-update £ budget. Also when I update for a given period (year) it doesn’t auto-update budget other periods (month, week, day).
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I use a spreadsheet which shows a rolling 12 month average.
I’ve never really understood that screen. I would prefer VAT and Standing Charge to be replicated in the Usage screen as well as Budget. R-