We are incredibly excited to announce the full launch of the Hypervolt v5 mobile application. This is a full rewrite of the application from the ground up, building on what we’ve learned over the last 2.5 years of providing and supporting home chargers in the market to provide a significantly better experience for our users!
You can download the new app from the Google Play Store (Android) and the App Store (Apple).
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the participants in our beta programme for all of your valuable feedback, as this was very useful for refining the release over the last several weeks. We believe that v5 will bring some long awaited improvements to the mix.
We have made a significant overhaul of the visual elements in the application, and taken on board user feedback to make it easier to find key controls and data, as well as highlighting the charger status and presenting clear indications of when charging is happening, why charging is not happening, and whether or not your charger is online.
For users who have any power generation system at home (solar, wind, hydro, etc) we now offer better information about how much energy we believe you’re generating off-grid and how much you are pulling in from your energy provider. This should make it much easier to tell when you’re charging your EV using locally-generated green energy, and help you understand how much you’ve been saving by doing so.
It is important to note that these figures are estimates rather than direct measurements, as most installations will not have the 2nd CT clamp necessary to directly measure energy generation from the local source. We are comparing the power measured coming in from the grid and the power measured going through the charger to your EV; if there is more power going to your EV than there is coming in from the grid we can be certain that there is local generation taking place.
By popular demand from many of our customers we have implemented dark mode, allowing you to match the settings used on your device
We have completely replaced one of the most important parts of the Hypervolt experience: the bluetooth stack. From the commissioning and testing process, to changing Wi-Fi networks and getting a Hypervolt device connected to your account, a smooth bluetooth experience is critical, and we are very excited about the improvements we’ve been able to make in this area
Along with the application launch, we have provided an updated set of online documentation specific to the V5 app: https://support.hypervolt.co.uk/knowledge-base/hypervolt-app