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What's new in SolDial — a running log of improvements and fixes, newest first.

Version labels like 1.0 (Build 8) track the app build you install from the store. The v1, v2… count is our day-to-day progress between builds — so you can see what we shipped even when the build number hasn't changed.

Agile, Fixed Properly v41 September 23, 2026

Octopus Agile: SolDial now sees your whole day, midnight to midnight. During British Summer Time the midnight-to-1 AM prices quietly dropped out of the day once the clock passed 1 AM. The price curve drew that hour as 0p, and “cheapest” and “priciest” rules ranked prices against an incomplete day, so a half-hour that was really the 14th cheapest could count as the 12th. The day now always starts at midnight UK time.
Price sync into the Tesla app now writes your real Agile prices. Turning on Sync my prices into Tesla’s rate plan on Agile wrote one flat 28p price for every hour instead of your half-hourly prices (export prices were fine). It now writes the real prices for your region, and it never writes a price you didn’t give it. If you had the sync on before today, check the rate plan in the Tesla app — or switch the sync back on and SolDial replaces it with the real prices.
“Stop grid charging” rules end exactly when the cheap window does. Autopilot paired “charge in the cheapest 12 half-hours” with “stop in the priciest 36”, which only lines up once all 48 of the day’s prices are posted — and Octopus posts the last hour around 4 PM. On mornings the two overlapped and the stop could cut a charge short; replaying the last week of real prices, that happened 8 times in 7 days. Rules can now fire when the price leaves a set, Autopilot’s stop rules become “leaves the cheapest 12”, and existing ones switch over by themselves within a day. Rules you built yourself are untouched, and the rule builder now offers “leaves the cheapest” and “leaves the priciest”.
The Tesla price sync explains itself — and switching it back on works. The setting now says what it does before you tick it: that it replaces the plan in the Tesla app, and that switching it off doesn’t bring your old plan back. And if you’d picked a different plan in the Tesla app, switching the sync off and on again used to leave it silently paused for good; now it picks straight back up.

Export Tariffs & Real Prices v40 September 22, 2026

Your export tariff is now its own setting — and Octopus Outgoing Agile is priced half-hourly. In the UK your export tariff is a separate product from your import tariff, and SolDial had nowhere sensible to put it: the only Outgoing Agile option was a radio hidden inside the “sync my prices into Tesla” checkbox, and even then it only changed what the Powerwall saw — SolDial itself kept valuing every exported unit at the single figure in the export-rate box. Under Settings → Utility Rates → Net Metering, the UK option now reads “A separate export tariff (SEG / Outgoing)”, and Octopus households get an Export tariff choice right there: a fixed rate (Outgoing Fixed, SEG, any single price) or Octopus Outgoing Agile. Pick Agile and SolDial fetches the day-ahead export prices for your grid region — the live price and last-30-day average show beside the choice — and values each exported unit at the price in effect that hour. That flows everywhere: History and Savings price exports hour by hour, the dashboard tiles, widget, Alexa and briefing emails use the trailing average, bill projections price each hour of the day at that hour’s typical export price (Outgoing Agile is cheapest at midday and dearest 4–7 PM, and a solar home exports at both), and Autopilot sees the real export range instead of a placeholder. The Tesla price sync simply follows the choice instead of asking a second time. Works with any import plan — Intelligent Octopus Go with Agile export is a common pairing. (Found by a user.)
Hourly plans: the widget, Alexa and Wrapped now use your real prices. If you’re on ComEd Hourly, Ameren Power Smart Pricing or Octopus Agile, your dashboard has always priced energy at the actual hourly rate — but the home-screen widget, “how much did I save” by voice, and Powerwall Wrapped were quietly blending imports at a fixed placeholder rate and crediting exports at nothing. They now price each hour at the price that was actually in effect — which also means grid charging finally costs what you paid for it, not the month’s average. If you fill the Powerwall in the cheapest slots, or get paid to take power when prices go negative, that saving shows up instead of being averaged away. Where an hour can’t be priced, it falls back to your trailing 30-day average plus delivery, the way the dashboard does. And an Agile-import household with a fixed export tariff can now enter that rate: until now the app assumed hourly-plan exports were paid the import price, which is right for Illinois real-time netting and wrong for Octopus.
Negative prices: SolDial keeps the Powerwall filling for as long as you’re paid to, and lets go the moment you aren’t. On Octopus Agile a plunge day can run negative for hours. The plan card only ever named a fixed four-hour “cheapest stretch”, so a 16-hour negative day showed as “3 AM–7 AM”; rules built to end a cheap window switched the fill off hours early; and nothing switched it off when the price came back, so the reserve could sit at 100% into the evening peak with a full battery the house wasn’t allowed to use. Now the card names every negative hour as the charge window, any rule that would stop the fill is held while the price is below zero (with the reason in History), and Autopilot’s own fill rules get a partner that restores your normal posture once the price is positive. Built your own fill rule? Nothing is added behind your back — its card offers a one-tap “add the partner rule” that shows exactly what it restores. (Found by a user.)
Autopilot stopped nudging you to time loads when timing can’t save anything. On a flat rate with 1:1 net metering and export allowed, a kWh sent to the grid at noon is credited at exactly what you pay at 8 PM — so it makes no difference when you run the dishwasher. Autopilot was still building “midday solar window” and “defer loads” reminders on those accounts. They’re now dropped for flat 1:1 accounts with export on (and the few that existed have been paused); time-of-use, real-time and NEM 3 plans keep them, as does any account with export switched off.
The “solar production looks low today” alert checks the forecast before it worries you. It compared the day against your recent average and nothing else, so a genuinely rainy day looked identical to a dead string. It now only fires when the day came in well under the weather-adjusted forecast, says what that forecast was so you know cloud has been ruled out, and drops the “was it cloudy?” question it already knows the answer to. The headline also said “Today so far” on an alert that only ever sends in the evening; it now just says “Today”.
SolDial on the web keeps your cars’ live charging power streaming. Only the phone app asked the car for the richer data, so a car that started charging while just a web tab was open showed the charging arrow at 0 kW with the whole draw under Home, until you opened your phone. The web dashboard now makes the same request while the tab is visible, so the line and its kW appear within about 30 to 45 seconds. A tab left open behind other windows stops asking, so an overnight tab doesn’t keep the car streaming for nobody.
SolDial now asks how you heard about it. One optional question at the end of onboarding, under your goals — Reddit, a friend, App Store search, Google, YouTube, a NetZero search, a Tesla forum, a Facebook group, or somewhere else. Tap one and it’s saved; skip it and nothing happens. Existing accounts find the same question under Settings → Goals. It’s there so we can tell which of the places we talk about SolDial actually bring people in.
Powerwall 3: no more promise of per-string solar on a date that had already passed. The Solar String Detail card told every paired Powerwall 3 owner the feature was “expected around June 20, 2026” — a date that went three months stale with nothing to catch it — and the documentation said Powerwall 3 showed per-string voltage, current and wattage, which sent at least one person hunting for a screen that isn’t there. The card is gone rather than replaced with an apology, and the docs now say plainly which systems SolDial reads strings from today: Powerwall+ and Powerwall 2 systems with an integrated inverter. Powerwall 3 string detail isn’t in SolDial yet and no longer carries a date. Nothing else about Powerwall 3 changes.

Storm Prep & Honest Rules v39 September 18, 2026

Storm prep happens the evening before, and holds through the storm. Autopilot’s storm rule used to raise your Powerwall reserve the moment the forecast changed — usually just after midnight, when the battery was at its lowest — so the Powerwall bought grid power to climb to the new floor, and the morning reset dropped it again on the very day the storm arrived. It now raises the reserve at 5 PM the evening before a day with real storm risk (or at off-peak start on a savings plan, so any top-up is at the cheap rate), and your daily reset skips storm days, so the reserve stays up through the storm. If you use Tesla’s Storm Watch, SolDial defers to it while it’s active. Existing Autopilot rules are converted on the next run, and the run summary explains what changed and why.
Weather is two signals, shaped by your goal. Rain, snow and cloud mean less solar tomorrow; thunderstorms, damaging wind, ice, heavy snow and official warnings mean the power might go out. Autopilot answers the first according to your energy goal — a savings plan may top up at off-peak, an independence plan preserves what’s stored, a backup plan enters the day with margin — and prepares for the second under every goal.
New trigger: Outage risk. Build your own rules on “a storm that could knock out power is at least possible / severe, today or tomorrow.” It combines Tesla Storm Watch, official warnings (NWS in the US, the Met Office in the UK) and severe conditions in the forecast. The weather trigger also gained a today/tomorrow choice and an “is not” option, so a daily rule can say “unless today is stormy.”
Storm alerts no longer forward the weather service’s practice drills. The National Weather Service runs its tsunami and emergency-broadcast tests through the same feed as real warnings; only a status field marks them as a drill, and SolDial wasn’t reading it. It now sends only alerts the service marks as actual, and ignores cancellations and acknowledgements that aren’t new warnings.
Plain-English rules say “I can’t build that” instead of quietly building something else. Three requests used to come back as a finished, plausible-looking rule that did something unrelated. Asking to turn Charge on Solar on or off produced a rule that changed your site’s grid export setting instead — Charge on Solar is a Tesla setting you turn on in the Tesla app, and SolDial now says so. “From 9 PM until sunrise” quietly became a window that was on every minute of the day, because a window needs two clock times; SolDial can still fire a rule at sunrise or sunset, it just won’t pretend to use one as the edge of a range. And asking for a rule on something SolDial can’t see — firmware versions, your internet connection, whether anyone’s home, indoor temperature — used to get a rule built on an unrelated number. Each now comes back with a plain explanation of what SolDial can trigger on instead.
Rules no longer claim to control things SolDial can’t reach. Ask for “set the thermostat to permanent hold when the grid goes down” and you used to get a rule named as if it did that, which only sent you a message. It’s now named for what it really does (“Remind me: …”) with a plain notice that SolDial controls your Powerwall, your Teslas and your connected EV charger, and nothing else in the house. If you asked for a reminder in the first place, you just get the reminder — no notice.
Describe two rules at once and SolDial tells you it only built one. “At 11 PM preserve the Powerwall, and when the car hits 80% set the reserve to 50%” is two rules. You used to get the first half back with nothing said about the second. The draft now comes with a note naming the part that wasn’t included, in your own words, so you know to add a second rule for it.
A rule’s name can no longer say the opposite of what it does. One live rule was called “Enable grid charging” while its action switched grid charging off. The name is the only thing you see in your rule list, so the drafting assistant now checks the name against the action before handing you the rule, and rewrites it if they disagree.
“Start my EV charger” works if you own a Tesla and no separate charger. Charger wording used to be refused unless you’d connected a third-party charger under Devices — even with two Teslas in the garage. SolDial now reads it as your Tesla and builds the rule against the car, telling you which one it picked if you have more than one. When a rule can’t be built for a specific reason, you now see that reason instead of a generic “try rephrasing.”
A rule held back by its own time window says so. Put “only between 10 AM and 3 PM” on a rule and the thing it waits for happens at 3:03 — the rule correctly stays put, but until now in complete silence, so it looked identical to a rule that was simply broken. The window is now printed on the rule in your Schedule, and when conditions are met outside it, History records “Everything this rule waits for happened, but it only runs between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM” — at most once a day per rule.
Trial and subscription emails lead with what SolDial has actually measured, not what it guessed. The recap used to headline Autopilot’s own savings estimate and rank “heavy lifters” by it, so a rule stamped $18/month that had never once run sat at the top. The money line is now what Saved by SolDial has counted so far and the monthly pace that works out to, marked as measured then projected. Rules are ranked by how often they’ve actually run; one that hasn’t run yet says so instead of carrying a dollar figure; and “pays for itself” only appears when the measured pace clears the plan price. Where nothing has been measured yet, the estimate is labelled as Autopilot’s projection.
Notifications no longer go missing about once an hour. The background job that watches for storms, off-grid events, pre-peak nudges, bill projections and briefings was being cut off by the hosting platform roughly hourly, and everything queued behind the storm check was skipped on those runs. It now does the storm check in a fraction of the time, carries a real time limit, and picks up exactly where it left off on the next run.
Dismissing the “Coming from NetZero?” banner sticks. It was remembered in browser storage, which the app periodically clears. It’s now remembered on your account: dismiss it once and it’s gone, on every device.
Android: fixed random sign-outs, and the widget family now matches iPhone. Android 1.1.1 (20) and Wear OS 1.0.2 (100011), rolling out through Google Play now. Some phones were quietly losing the saved sign-in; SolDial now keeps its own copy on the device and puts it back the moment it goes missing. Signing out yourself still signs you out for good. The home screen gains Energy Glance 30d (the rolling last 30 days) and Energy Glance Billing (this billing period so far, with a day counter and the bill or credit to date), every card names its period, solar pace reads the way the dashboard does (“-10% of expected”), the refresh control sits in a gold corner tab like iOS, and each figure got bigger with its description on its own line.
Wear OS: the “reconnecting” line fits the watch. While the watch is catching up it now says “Reconnecting…” on its own line with “Last Updated: 1:15 PM” underneath, in the open space below your readings, instead of one long line running off a round face. Matches the Apple Watch app.
iPhone: no rating prompt on first launch. iOS 1.4.1 (17). The app never asks for a rating until you’ve opened it several times on that device — and, for a new account, at least a week in.
soldial.com shows what you’ll actually be charged, in your own currency. The homepage quoted US dollars to everyone. It now lists the price for the US, UK, Australia and Canada, and says plainly that prices outside the US include local tax, which is why they aren’t a straight conversion.

Your Morning Briefing v38 September 15, 2026

Ask Alexa for your morning briefing. (US today; UK, Australia and Canada with the next skill approval.) Say “Alexa, ask soul dial for my briefing” and you get the whole morning in one go, in the order you can act on it: anything that needs your attention first — your system hasn’t reported, SolDial has lost its Tesla connection, Storm Watch is holding a charge, an automation didn’t complete — then how much your system has generated today against what was expected, whether that’s ahead of or behind pace and where the day is tracking to finish, what you’ve imported and exported and what it’s cost or credited so far, tomorrow’s weather and what it means for your panels, yesterday, and where your billing period stands. On an hourly or Agile plan it adds today’s cheapest and priciest stretch. Anything SolDial can’t work out honestly is left out rather than guessed at. “My daily review”, “my energy recap”, “catch me up” and a few hundred other phrasings all work. Put it in an Alexa Routine and “Alexa, good morning” can read it to you.
The same briefing as an email, if you want it. Settings → Notifications has a new Daily morning briefing toggle with a time picker, so it lands in your inbox when you choose, in your system’s local time. Yesterday’s finished numbers lead, today’s progress sits underneath, then tomorrow’s outlook and your billing period. It’s off unless you switch it on.
Hourly pricing is only offered where it actually exists. The hourly tab listed ComEd and Ameren — both Illinois utilities — to every US account, so a customer in California could pick one and be priced off an Illinois wholesale feed. It now appears only if a listed provider serves your state, and SolDial refuses to save a plan from the wrong state even if an older screen still offers it. (Found by a user.)
Changing plan type asks before it deletes your rates. Saving on a different tab when you already had Time-of-Use windows set up wiped your peak and off-peak hours silently. It now warns you first, and cancelling restores your plan exactly as it was — name, utility and all.
Switching between your Tesla systems sticks. On accounts with more than one system, picking a system showed its numbers for a moment and then flipped back to the other one, over and over, in both the app and the web dashboard. The fast service feeding the live dial was identified by account rather than by system, so it kept answering with whichever system it happened to be holding. Multi-system accounts now read their live numbers on the path that checks which system you’re viewing, every time. (Found by a user.)
Your free month for switching from NetZero is a real store offer. Finish a NetZero import and SolDial emails you a single-use App Store or Google Play code that makes your first month of Pro free — the free month now sits in front of the subscription instead of being complimentary time that could overlap a trial you’d already started. The switch screen says up front who the offer is for, so nobody finishes an import expecting a month they can’t have. And if your screenshots couldn’t be confirmed as NetZero, your rules are still rebuilt — the page now tells you the free month didn’t apply and points you at support, instead of going quiet.
New accounts are told they can bring their NetZero automations across. The welcome email now closes with a note: upload screenshots of your NetZero rules under Automations → Switch, SolDial rebuilds them for you to review, and if you haven’t subscribed yet your first month of Pro is free.
The Agile and hourly plan card tells the truth about flat days. It used to name a “cheapest stretch” and say it would charge the Powerwall then, even when the whole day was flat with one evening peak — which read as a promise to buy grid power for no reason. It now says when prices are flat and nothing is worth grid-charging, calls out negative-price windows, quotes the cheap window against a typical price, and stops promising actions: your rules are what run, and they’re the shaded bands on the chart. Octopus Agile day-ahead prices are labelled “posted” rather than “estimated”, because they’re the exact billed prices.
“Cheapest N slots” rules know what cheap means. A rule can now say “is in the cheapest 4 price slots today, only if under 60% of the day’s typical price” — it reads each day’s own curve, so there’s no pence or cents figure to guess and it works in any region. On a flat day nothing fires; on a day with negative midday prices it fills the Powerwall. Autopilot adds this guard to every cheapest-slots rule that grid-charges the Powerwall, and leaves car-charging and notify rules alone — the car still needs charging on a flat day. (Found by a user.)

SolDial on the Web v37 September 13, 2026

SolDial on the web. Open app.soldial.com on a computer, sign in with the same account, and your system is laid out for the screen: the live power-flow dial at full height on the left, the Energy Chart beside it (blow it up to fill the window), Monthly and Yearly analysis underneath, and Power Meters, Solar Pace, Current State, Savings, Self-Powered, Saved by SolDial and Weather in a grid you drag into your own order. Cars, Devices, Automations and Settings are all there too — charge limits, backup reserve, Storm Watch, Autopilot, building and editing rules. It’s an extension of the apps, not a replacement: connecting Tesla, pairing your Powerwall for local access, widgets, the watch and push notifications stay on your phone, and Pro is bought in the app. Part of SolDial Pro.
Your web layout is yours alone. Every section starts visible on the web, and hiding or reordering one there doesn’t touch your phone dashboard — each remembers its own arrangement. The one thing that does follow you is the Energy Chart’s Energy / Estimates choice, so the web opens on whatever your phone was showing.
Opening SolDial on a computer now lands somewhere sensible. Signed in, app.soldial.com takes you straight to the web dashboard, and the links in SolDial’s emails — Open SolDial, Review Usage, Start Charging, See the Breakdown — open the matching view there instead of a page telling you the site is for admins. Your Powerwall Wrapped card opens on the web too. On a phone browser those same links still point you into the app, where the rest of SolDial lives. And if you’ve never used SolDial, the site now shows you what it does and where to download it.
Download links open your own country’s store. Every “Get the app” button and App Store badge was pinned to the US store, so readers in the UK, Australia and Canada were sent to a storefront they don’t buy from. They now open the App Store in whichever country you’re in.

Voice & Full History v36 September 10, 2026

Alexa understands far more ways of asking. The SolDial skill now recognizes hundreds of phrasings — “how full is my Powerwall”, “am I off grid”, “how long will the battery last”, “is it peak time”, “what’s the solar forecast for tomorrow”, “which automations are on”, “is my car plugged in” — instead of a short list of exact phrases. New things it can answer: what’s flowing right now, grid status and hours of backup, your live electricity price and when peak or off-peak starts, the solar forecast, the weather, your backup reserve and mode, VPP events, your automations and what fired last, and what SolDial’s automations have measurably saved. Say “help” for the list.
Savings and energy over any period, by voice. “How much did I save last month?” — or this week, this year, this billing period, yesterday, in July, the last 30 days, all time — and the same periods for solar produced, home use, net import/export, and self-powered percent. Same math as the dashboard tiles, in your currency.
Follow-ups stay on topic, and a miss is gentler. After “how long can my house run on the Powerwall?” you can ask “can I make it through the night?”; after a savings answer, “and last month?” just works. When Alexa doesn’t understand, it asks you to rephrase and keeps listening instead of reading the whole feature list.
Your full Powerwall history loads on first connect. New accounts were sometimes left with only the current week of history, so Month, Year and Billing Cycle views looked empty for a system installed years ago. History now loads in short steps that save as they go and keeps filling in the background until it reaches your install date. Every affected account has been backfilled — some back to 2017.
History says why a rule fired. Each run shows the value behind every condition at the moment it fired — “Solar estimate for today 49 kWh — at or above 40 kWh”, “Powerwall 64% — discharged down to 65%”, “Import price £0.09/kWh — among the cheapest 8 slots today”. Rules with and/or conditions show every leg, and a rule’s “ran” notification now carries that reason.
Solar-estimate conditions use the real forecast. Rules that check “solar estimate is at or above / below X kWh” were reading a typical-year value for the date, with no weather in it. They now use the same weather-adjusted forecast the dashboard shows, refreshed hourly, and the rule builder lets you pick today or tomorrow.
Autopilot stops re-planning accounts it just planned. It was comparing against your setup from before its own changes, so any night it adjusted something it re-planned the next night too. A pre-peak reserve hold also keeps its time now (it used to be moved to the off-peak start by a safety check), and run summaries say when a safety check adjusted a change.
Firmware update notices. When Tesla installs a new Powerwall firmware version, SolDial sends one notification with the new and previous version. Critical category, so it respects quiet hours.
The hourly rates tab says whose plans it holds. “Hourly” is now “Hourly (Illinois)” for ComEd / Ameren in the US and “Octopus Agile” in the UK, so a customer elsewhere isn’t put on the wrong price feed by tapping it.
Trials, made clearer. The annual-plan welcome screen now says the 7-day trial is live and when you’d first be charged. The day-5 recap reaches you even if auto-renew is off, with a one-tap link to turn it back on. And from day two of a trial with nothing automated, the dashboard offers Autopilot or Suggestions once, then gets out of the way.

Widgets & Watch v35 September 4, 2026

Widgets say when Pro is required. If a Pro plan lapses, the home-screen widget used to read “Open SolDial to connect” — and opening the app did nothing, because the widget is a Pro feature. It now says so: “Widgets are a SolDial Pro feature — tap to open SolDial and subscribe,” and the tap lands on the upgrade screen. iPhone widgets also stop showing frozen numbers after a lapse, and every widget refreshes the moment you open the app. Ships in Android 1.0.9 and iOS 1.3, rolling out through the stores now.
Compass mode reaches the watch. Settings → Display → Dial orientation now syncs to your account, so the Wear OS app and tile and the Apple Watch dial mirror the sun’s path exactly the way your phone does — sunrise on the right for the map-minded. It also carries to a second phone or tablet.
Clearer Pro-lapse message on the watch. “Requires SolDial Pro — upgrade in the SolDial phone app,” and Apple Watch complications show -- instead of 0.0 kW while Pro is off, so a lapsed plan never looks like a dead solar array.
Home-screen widgets and watch apps now appear in the Pro feature list on the upgrade screen and the pricing page — they were always Pro, they just weren’t listed.

Voice v34 September 2, 2026

New: SolDial for Powerwall on Alexa. (US Alexa Skills Store today; the UK, Australia and Canada are in Amazon’s certification queue and will appear automatically once approved.) Enable the SolDial skill in the Alexa app, link your SolDial account, and your Powerwall answers to your voice. Say “Alexa, open SolDial” and then just talk: what’s my battery at, how much solar today, what has my home used, am I importing or exporting, what have I saved this month, what’s my self-powered percent, where are the cars, is Storm Watch on. You can also ask in one breath — “Alexa, ask SolDial what’s my battery at.” Alexa keeps listening after each answer so you can ask several things in a row; say stop when you’re done.
Voice commands, with a read-back before anything moves. “Set my backup reserve to sixty,” “set the car’s charge limit to eighty,” “switch to self-powered” — Alexa repeats the change and waits for your yes. Nothing is sent to Tesla without it, and every voice change lands in your automation History like any other rule. Watch out for one Alexa quirk: pronounce the name clearly as two words, sol dial — run together, Alexa sometimes hears “dial” and tries to place a phone call.
Hide a car you no longer own. A car that was sold or traded in used to linger in the Cars tab and Power Flow. Each car’s section now has a remove control at the top; a removed car folds into Home usage, and you can bring it back any time from Hidden cars at the bottom of the tab. Cars that Tesla itself has dropped from your account now disappear on their own, too. Found by a user who traded in a Model 3.
Complimentary Pro is honest about itself. If you’re on complimentary Pro — beta testers, NetZero switchers — Billing & Plan now says so, shows the date it ends, and offers Subscribe to Pro directly, instead of pointing you at a Google Play or App Store subscription you never had. You get a heads-up email the day before it ends, and when it does, the app tells you the same day — a push, a short note from Mike, and a one-time dialog on your next open — rather than going quiet. Your dial, live power flow, and history stay; automations pause and Pro features lock until you subscribe. Nothing is deleted, and subscribing picks everything up exactly where it left off.

Compass Dial v33 August 27, 2026

New: Dial orientation setting. The sun/moon dial defaults to Horizon — the sky as you see it facing the sun, sunrise left arcing over the top to sunset right. If you read the dial like a map (north up), that looks backwards — so Settings → Display → Dial orientation now offers Compass mode, which mirrors the arc so the sun rises on the right (east) and sets on the left (west), still crossing the sky overhead — the moon mirrors along the bottom overnight. Suggested by a user who thinks in maps; built the same day. (We briefly tried placing the sun at its true compass bearing — due south is the bottom of a north-up dial, which reads like the sun is underground. The sky won.)
Fixed: weekly briefings silently skipping some users. A hiccup mid-send could quietly drop a user from the Sunday briefing — and then block them again the following week. Failed sends now retry within the same run and can't wedge; the affected users were caught up.

Octopus Price Sync v32 August 23, 2026

SolDial can now write your prices into Tesla's rate plan. Battery export to the grid can't be commanded directly by any app — the Powerwall only pushes power out when its own rate plan shows a sell price worth chasing. A new opt-in in your rate plan settings has SolDial write your import prices, and optionally the half-hourly Outgoing Agile export prices, into your Tesla every day. That unlocks battery export on Octopus the way apps like NetZero do it — but with no API key, since Agile and Outgoing prices are public per region. In the Tesla app your plan will read "managed by SolDial"; if you ever pick a plan inside the Tesla app yourself, SolDial notices and stands down until you re-enable it.
New UK preset: Intelligent Octopus Go. Octopus's smart EV tariff is now a one-tap preset (8p off-peak 11:30pm–5:30am, standard day rate, Outgoing export default) — previously Agile was the only Octopus option, which steered Go customers onto the wrong plan shape.
Switching from NetZero now translates your rules instead of copying them. NetZero rules flip Powerwall modes and assume Tesla knows your prices (NetZero wrote them into your Tesla). On Octopus and other dynamic plans, the switch screen now rebuilds imported rules in SolDial's own design language — cheapest-slot charging, peak holds — so they actually move energy from day one.
Fixed: billing cycle included one extra day for eastern-hemisphere sites. A cycle starting at local midnight (for example midnight Melbourne) was rounded in UTC on the server, quietly pulling the previous day into every billing-cycle number — including a VPP day credit the retailer correctly didn't pay. Cycle ranges now anchor to your site's own calendar day. Found by a user reconciling against his retailer's app.
Savings Summary labeled honestly. The yearly summary box is a rolling 12 months, but was labeled "Year to Date" — it now says "Latest 12 Months" so it can't be confused with the calendar-year Savings chart above it. Also found by a user.
Weekly briefing on by default for new accounts. New users now get the Sunday energy briefing automatically; existing users keep whatever they chose. The toggle lives in Settings → Notifications.
Docs got pictures. Nearly every documentation page now opens with a screenshot or live animation of the exact section it explains — click any of them to view full-screen. Plus a new page: The Estimates chart.
Off-grid safety floor. If SolDial has intentionally islanded your home and the Powerwall drains to the safety floor (default 30%), SolDial force-reconnects you to the grid and sends a critical alert, even if your own rules missed it. During a real outage it never interferes with backup — it warns instead. (Shipped earlier this month; missed the changelog.)

Savings Accuracy v31 August 21, 2026

Multi-day Savings now split hour by hour. Week, month, and year views used to sum the whole period first and split the totals once — which credited every solar kWh as having powered the house directly and understated the Powerwall's contribution (solar stored in the battery and used at night belongs to the Powerwall bucket). Every view now attributes your energy hour by hour and prices each hour at the rate actually in force then, so day, month, and year views finally agree. Your historical numbers may shift — most visibly the split between the Solar and Powerwall bars — and they're now more accurate. Found by a user checking our math against his own spreadsheet; the full write-up is in the new How Savings are calculated doc.
Self-Powered now agrees with the Tesla app. The Self-Powered split used the same sum-first shortcut and a solar-serves-home-first convention, which could read dramatically higher than Tesla's Impact number on battery-heavy days (a calibration day showed 88% here against Tesla's 50%). The split is now hour-by-hour, solar is counted as filling a charging battery first — the Tesla convention — and the battery is never credited beyond what it actually discharged. SolDial now typically lands within a point or two of the Tesla app; savings totals are unchanged by the alignment, though the split between the Solar and Powerwall buckets shifts (toward Powerwall). Full write-up: How Self-Powered is calculated.
Savings can honestly go negative now. A day where you deliberately grid-charge heavily (storm prep filling the battery overnight, a Tesla calibration cycle) can cost more than the battery has returned so far that day. The Savings chart used to draw those bars invisibly below the chart edge, leaving the section looking blank — they now render in red below a zero line, so a "paid for storm insurance today" day reads honestly instead of disappearing.

Dynamic Plans & Solar v30 August 19, 2026

Fixed-price rules no longer linger on real-time plans. If Energy Autopilot ever set up a rule with a fixed price threshold on Octopus Agile, Ameren, or ComEd, it now converts it to the self-tuning cheapest/priciest-slots kind automatically — a fixed threshold goes quietly stale as the market moves, which is exactly the trap v29 closed. Rules are also sized to your plan’s actual day (48 half-hour slots on Agile, 24 hourly slots on Ameren/ComEd), fixing a case where a rule could ask for more slots than the day has and effectively always be on. Your own hand-built rules are never touched.
You’re always told when your solar calibration locks. SolDial calibrates its solar model to your real production exactly once, after your first full year of history. Accounts that connected with a year of Tesla history already on the books used to calibrate silently — now everyone sees the one-time note when their calibration locks.
Deep-dive doc: how your solar forecast is really built. soldial.com/docs/solar-forecast now walks the whole pipeline — the NREL PVWatts model (and why its “typical year” looks jagged, not smooth), the same-day weather layer, the one-time calibration and why it never re-runs by itself (so panel aging stays visible in your numbers), and how to check the math yourself from the data export. Prompted by a user who plotted our export and asked exactly the right questions.

Real-Time Pricing v29 August 17, 2026

Automations that follow the cheapest hours by themselves. On a real-time plan — Octopus Agile, Ameren Power Smart Pricing, or ComEd Hourly Pricing — a price rule can now fire when the price is among the cheapest (or priciest) slots of the day instead of a fixed number you set. “Cheap” and “expensive” recalculate from each day’s real prices, so a rule that grid-charges in the cheapest window keeps working as your cheapest slots drift from overnight to a windy afternoon — no threshold to pick, and nothing to re-tune when the market moves. It closes the trap where a fixed price like “charge below 8p” quietly stopped firing once prices stopped dropping that low. Energy Autopilot and Suggestions build these for you, and the slots a rule targets are shaded right on your plan’s price curve.

Quality of Life v28 August 15, 2026

You stay signed in now. Sessions used to expire every 7 days, so each of your devices asked you to log in again weekly — the most-reported annoyance we’ve had. Fixed at the account level: sign in once per device and you’re in for good. Existing sessions age out on their old clocks, so expect one final login per device this week, and then never again.
VPP credits now reach back before you installed SolDial. The daily no-import credit and export top-up could only be verified on days SolDial was watching your system, so a billing cycle that started before you signed up showed only a few days of credits. Open a range that needs earlier days and SolDial now pulls them from Tesla’s own minute-level records — the Powerwall’s history goes back well before the app existed — and evaluates each day’s credit window on real data. A day the record shows you imported during the window still, correctly, earns nothing.
Download the expected-solar model. Settings → Account → Export my data gains three tabs: the full hour-by-hour model year (8,760 rows), a daily rollup, and a method sheet showing exactly what the dashed line is built from — your array configuration, your site’s coordinates, and your system’s calibration factor — with raw-model and calibrated columns side by side. Requested by a user who wanted to check our math; now anyone can.
Colorways: the full month to earn, and no early peeking. A leftover testing shortcut let next month’s Wrapped card be opened — and its colorway earned — from the 28th, on partial-month stats, and quietly closed the current card’s earn window three days early. A month’s card now exists only once that month has fully ended, and its colorway stays earnable right up until the next card arrives.

Accuracy & Rates v27 August 13, 2026

Savings and Self-Powered now understand grid charging. If your Powerwall ever charges from the grid — a free midday window, a cheap overnight rate, or plain off-peak arbitrage — those kilowatt-hours were being counted as your home running on the grid. Days you actually ran mostly off your own battery could read 0% self-powered with no savings to show for it. Energy is now attributed properly (solar to your home first, then the battery, the grid only for what’s left), and savings subtract what the grid charging cost, so the number reflects the real spread you captured. Systems that never charge from the grid are unaffected.
Smarter automation suggestions. Suggestions now carries the same protections Energy Autopilot has: it offers the outage rule that pauses car charging when the grid goes down, it won’t propose holding your Powerwall full on a time-of-use plan (that leaves the price spread on the table), it times reserve and charging changes to your real off-peak start instead of midnight, and its savings estimates count the days a saving actually happens rather than assuming all thirty. Both now check whether selling stored power genuinely beats using it before suggesting any export change — and Autopilot learned that critical-peak rates apply only on called event days.
Retailer charging programs. If your electricity retailer schedules your car’s charging in exchange for a discounted rate — Origin EV Power Up and AGL’s night rate in Australia to start — you can now tell SolDial on the Cars tab, and it stays out of that car’s way: no charge commands, no AI-written rules for it, and one clear message with a link to the rule if an existing automation tries. It’s set per car, so your other vehicles keep full automation, and a household sharing one Tesla account sees the same setting on both phones. Not on the list? Enter your program’s name and rate.
Rate plans that match your actual bill. Time-of-use windows can now be saved at $0.00/kWh for genuinely free periods. Utility Rates gains an optional daily supply charge, and a VPP & plan credits section for the conditional payments some plans make — a daily credit for importing nothing during a window, or a feed-in top-up for the first few kWh exported — which appear as their own row in your savings breakdown. Australian users can load GloBird ZEROHERO complete with its free 11am–2pm window and both credits, and outside the US the preset picker now sits at the top of Utility Rates where it belongs.
28-day billing cycles. Billing Cycle settings now offers two cycle types: calendar month, or a fixed length for retailers that bill every 28 days from an arbitrary date. Pick your length and the start date of any real bill, and the dashboard’s billing filter, watch stats, briefing email, and bill-trending alerts all follow the same window.
History backfill fixed outside the US. First-connect history was anchored to UTC midnight, which for timezones east of UTC made Tesla return a single day per month — a new UK or Australian account’s history was years of nothing but first-of-the-months, and Monthly Analysis looked almost empty. Anchors are now local to your site and DST-aware, and US systems gain the last evening of each month the old anchor was quietly cutting off.
Autel chargers, ready to go. Autel joins MOTEN/Joint and Wallbox as a pick-your-brand option when adding an OCPP charger, with setup tips for its quirks — including the trailing slash its firmware insists on in the server address. The 80A AC is confirmed working, start and stop. A charger that quietly does what your automations tell it also stops being marked “untested” forever: a successful automated start or stop now counts as proof. EV charger setup →
No car talk if you don’t have a car. Powerwall-only accounts no longer get vehicle content they can’t use — the hourly-plan card drops its charging window, storm and outage emails drop the EV advice, and the AI no longer writes car rules or triggers for an account with no vehicle.
Fixes. “Feels Like” in the weather card now reads in your temperature unit instead of always Fahrenheit. Changing your country applies everywhere immediately — presets, postcode labels, currency, temperature units — instead of waiting for a reload, and System Info moved above Utility Rates since it shapes what that section shows. The colorways shelf no longer lists an upcoming month as one you’ve already missed. Removing an EV charger shows its confirmation on screen rather than halfway up the page. The “can’t find your Powerwall” message now covers both causes — your phone’s WiFi and the Powerwall’s own network connection. And the Go Pro screen only promises a free trial when the store actually has one for you.

International v26 August 10, 2026

SolDial goes international. Now available in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada — with local pricing in each store. Pick your country in Settings → System Info and everything follows: your currency across savings, emails, and Wrapped; your postcode resolving properly; and rate presets built for your market. US accounts see no change at all.
Octopus Agile, natively. UK users on Agile get full half-hourly support: choose it on the Hourly tab, your grid region resolves from your postcode automatically, automations trigger on the live half-hour price — negative plunge prices included — savings are measured against real Agile history, and tomorrow’s posted prices appear as the day-ahead plan around 4 PM. How hourly pricing works →
Rate plans for three new markets. UK: Standard Variable, Economy 7, and smart TOU shapes with SEG export defaults. Australia: flat anytime and time-of-use with feed-in defaults. Canada: Ontario’s regulated plans — including Ultra-Low Overnight, the strongest Powerwall arbitrage spread SolDial serves anywhere (3.9¢ overnight vs 39.1¢ peak) — plus Ontario TOU with automatic summer/winter windows, Hydro-Québec, and BC Hydro.
Fahrenheit or Celsius, your call. Settings → System Info now has a temperature unit choice. It defaults to your country’s norm and applies everywhere temps show — the dial, weather panel, history chart, and Wall Connector readings.
Weather resilience abroad. UK, Australian, and Canadian systems get the same weather backup US systems have — MET Norway steps in if the primary source goes down — and pre-storm alerts now work outside the US, detecting severe conditions from the forecast for today and tomorrow.
Pricing page. The full Free-vs-Pro comparison with local prices for every country now lives at soldial.com/pricing.

Powerwall Wrapped v25 July 30, 2026

Your month, one card. On the 1st of each month SolDial hands you a shareable card: what your system avoided — the grid bill you’d have had with no solar and no battery versus what you actually paid, priced against your real rate plan — plus self-powered share, solar produced, outages you rode through, and more. Built after your month closes in your own timezone, delivered at 10 AM local, shared straight from the card (a Hide $ option swaps the money for the percentage first). How it works →
Collectible colorways. Each month’s card carries a limited color theme — July Plum starts the collection — earned only by sharing that month’s card. Once the next Wrapped arrives, it’s gone for good. Apply yours in Settings → Display and the whole dashboard wears it, with a subtle shimmer while it’s on.
Real Android sharing. App 1.0.8 (on Google Play now) adds the native Android share sheet — the card goes straight to any app, no screenshots.
Utility guides on the site. Plan-by-plan Powerwall strategy guides built from real tariff data — PG&E EV2-A, SDG&E EV-TOU-5 on NEM 3.0, SCE TOU-D-PRIME, APS demand charges, ComEd hourly, FPL flat, Hawaii no-export, Duke CPP, BGE, LADWP — now live at soldial.com/guides, linked from every page.

Charts, pairing & polish update v24 July 29, 2026

Charts show the whole period — future included. “This month”, “This quarter”, “This year”, Billing Month, and any custom range ending in the future now span the entire period instead of stopping at today. The Estimates view includes the current period as it fills in plus estimate ticks for what’s ahead, and the Energy view draws a dashed expected-solar guide across the rest of the window — so July shows all of July, and a year shows all twelve months. “…so far” filters still end at now, as they should.
The Devices tab remembers your layout. Reorder the sections, leave some open and some collapsed — it now reopens exactly how you left it, synced to your account across devices. (A save bug had been silently resetting it on every visit.)
The dial is snappy when you’re watching, frugal when you’re not. Locally-paired systems keep their 3-second home-network power flow. Cloud dashboards adapt: full 5-second updates while you’re using the app, easing to 10 seconds after the screen sits untouched a few minutes — touch it and it’s instantly snappy again. Also fixed a long-standing bug where every open dashboard quietly ran two identical live feeds.
A nudge toward faster updates. If you watch the dashboard on cloud data for a while and haven’t paired your Powerwall locally, a one-time tip explains what pairing gets you — 3× faster updates on home WiFi and a dial that keeps working during an internet outage — with Pair / Remind Me Later / Don’t Show Again. And if a paired system quietly loses its home-network connection, the app gives you a heads-up instead of silently falling back to slower cloud updates.
Honest history for unplugged cars. A charge rule that fires while no car is plugged in now logs as skipped with a plain note (“no car was plugged in, so there was nothing to charge”) instead of showing up as a failure.

Control & honesty update v23 July 26, 2026

Choose when a combined rule fires. Combined rules always had two possible behaviors — fire when everything becomes true in any order, or fire only at one chosen condition’s moment with the others already holding — but the app picked for you. A new Fires selector on every combined rule lets you choose, and change it later when editing.
“Only when the car is plugged in.” New conditions for Tesla vehicles and EV chargers — plugged in or not — so “when the Powerwall hits 95% between 10 and 3, start charging” can be guarded to run only when the car is actually connected. Charge-starts are plug-aware everywhere now: if nothing is plugged in when a rule fires, SolDial skips the start with a plain note (and a one-time heads-up) instead of failing cryptically — and never wastes a wake-up on a car with no cable.
Rate windows: shared boundaries, real midnight, no more :59. Rate periods end exactly where the next begins (9:00 to 17:00, then 17:00 to 21:00), an end of 12:00 AM means midnight, and equal start and end means all day. The utility lookup also warns you now when a plan named Time-of-Use has no usable schedule in the public rates database — previously it silently saved a flat rate and your peak/off-peak economics quietly didn’t exist.
Stop always works, and the charging card stays put. On some chargers our record of the live session could drift from the hardware, hiding the Drawing Now / Session / Duration stats mid-charge and making Stop answer “already not charging” without stopping anything. The card and Stop now trust the charger’s live state.
Autopilot skips planning when nothing changed. Autopilot fingerprints what shapes your plan (goal, permissions, rate plan, rules, cars, chargers) and runs the full AI pass only when something actually changed, with a natural monthly refresh. Your history shows skipped days honestly.
Savings estimates got honest ceilings. Rules that protect rather than earn — backup holds, alerts — can no longer carry invented dollar figures: claims are capped by a computed recovery value where one genuinely exists, and removed where it doesn’t. Cosmetic AI edits that change nothing are dropped before they reach your rules.
Multi-system accounts: rates say what they cover. If you have more than one system, the rates screen now says the plan applies account-wide — and if your systems look like different utility areas, it tells you honestly that one plan prices everything for now.
Remove Charger moved out of thumb’s way. A small confirmed link well below the charge buttons now, where a stray tap can’t reach it.

Rule-builder & reliability update v22 July 22, 2026

Combined rules can pin their firing moment. “When the car stops charging AND the Powerwall is off-grid” now fires only at the car-stops moment while off-grid holds — previously it could also fire the instant you islanded with an idle car. The plain-English writer sets this automatically for event-plus-condition sentences, and the editor shows it: “Fires at the moment: …”.
The rule writer explains itself. When the plain-English builder has to reshape part of what you asked for — an end time Tesla can’t schedule, an event-vs-condition rewiring — it says so in a gold note right under your description instead of leaving you to wonder why a piece seems missing.
Named cars always win. “Charge Solar Sailer…” reliably targets Solar Sailer — a rule that named a car could previously land on your primary vehicle instead. Grid conditions inside combined rules now read as states (“the grid is offline”), and longer descriptions get a bigger typing box.
Sleeping cars actually wake for charge commands. Scheduled charging rules could fail with a cryptic “disconnected” seconds after firing — the car was simply asleep. Commands now wake the car, let its command channel come up, and retry.
Charger-only homes compile correctly. No Tesla vehicle, but an OCPP wall charger? “Charge the car” rules — typed or built — now always target the charger, and Tesla-car actions that could never work on your account are hidden from the builder.
Holding your battery no longer mutes your solar credits. Some AI-built “hold the Powerwall for peak” rules blocked all exports instead of just battery export — silencing solar credits your surplus should have earned. Affected rules were corrected, and a guardrail now upgrades any future “none” to solar-only export whenever you have export permission on a time-of-use plan.
Search the docs. The Documentation page has a search box that looks across every guide — type “charger” or “backup reserve” and jump straight to the right section.
Charger card keeps the session in view. When your car pauses or fills mid-charge, the card keeps showing the session (energy, duration) with Start and Stop both always visible — impossible presses answer honestly (“Already charging.”) instead of buttons vanishing. Ghost sessions from charger WiFi reconnects are closed automatically, and the EV Charger section now appears in every Devices-tab state.

Automations update v21 July 21, 2026

“Between two times” triggers. Automations can now run on a time window, not just a moment: pick between two times in the builder (start + end, wraps past midnight, day-of-week aware), or just type it — “between 4 and 9 PM hold my reserve at 80” compiles the same way every time. Windows also work as conditions inside combined triggers (“solar above 5 kW between 10 and 4”).
Honest EV charging windows. Asking for “charge between 9 PM and 5 PM” now produces a plainly-labeled rule (“EVs wait for 9 PM to start charging”) instead of one that silently ignored your end time — and when the end time is the point, the writer builds the stop rule too.
Car-charging rules without a named car now run. A charging rule that didn’t pin a specific vehicle (“start charging at 1 AM”) could fail every night with a misleading “vehicle was asleep” message. These rules now resolve to your primary car, and error messages distinguish a rule pointing at a removed car from a genuinely unreachable one.
Faster status checks. The status-page probe for the app now answers from the CDN edge — response times on status.soldial.com reflect reachability, not server warm-up.

EV Charger update v20 July 20, 2026

Add your own EV charger. A new + Add EV Charger button on the Devices tab connects any OCPP-compatible charger yourself — no waiting on us. SolDial generates your charger’s unique ID and shows exact setup steps for your brand (MOTEN/Joint, Wallbox, or any OCPP 1.6J charger), then the card comes alive the moment it connects.
Plug in, charge — like it should. Connected chargers now start charging automatically the moment a car plugs in (previously they waited for a manual Start — an OCPP quirk). A per-charger Auto-start switch turns that off if you’d rather control every session yourself or through automations.
EV chargers join automations — everywhere. Trigger on your charger starting/stopping charging or going offline/coming back, add “start/stop EV charger” as an action, describe it in plain English (“pause my wallbox during peak hours”), and Energy Autopilot + Suggestions now factor the charger into their strategies — pausing it during expensive windows or outages, alerting if it drops offline.
Honest remote-control status. Every charger brand behaves differently, so new chargers are marked “remote start/stop untested” until proven. After you try a command, SolDial asks whether the charger actually responded — your answer clears the notice and confirms support for that model. The AI respects it too: a charger that failed a control test is never commanded.
Rename and remove chargers right from the card, and the Start button no longer hides after a remote stop.

EV Chargers arrive v19 July 19, 2026

EV chargers arrive in SolDial (OCPP). Homes with an OCPP-compatible EV charger see it live in the app — status, watts while charging, session energy and duration, and start/stop controls (Pro). The charger appears under Devices as equipment and on the Cars tab as your EV’s charging surface — for non-Tesla EVs, the first time your car’s charging is visible in SolDial at all.
Billing-month briefing. Set your billing cycle day and SolDial sends a full previous-billing-month energy briefing on the first day of each new cycle — same format as the weekly one, covering your exact billing period.
Go Off-Grid no longer cries wolf. Islanding your home on purpose — the button or an automation — no longer triggers the critical Grid Outage / Grid Restored alerts; those fire only for real outages.
Your net grid cost, in dollars. Briefings now show net grid energy (imported minus exported) with an approximate dollar figure from your actual rate plan — priced hour by hour against your real peak windows, red when the grid cost you money, green when you earned a net credit.

Rates & briefing update v18 July 18, 2026

Outdated rate-plan warning. The utility lookup now flags plans whose national-database listing looks out of date — shown as “Legacy Plan — may be outdated” and sorted below current ones — and after prefilling asks you to check the numbers against your latest bill, pointing to My Plan Is Not Listed when your real plan isn’t in the database.
A weekly briefing worth opening. The Sunday email is now a designed report: your self-powered percentage front and center with a week-over-week change, a stat grid for solar / home / grid import / export, your best solar day, and how many times your automations ran.
Honest savings estimates on part-week rates. A rule’s monthly $ estimate now counts only the days its saving actually occurs — a weekday-only peak spread is ~22 days a month, not 30.
Autopilot edits can’t mis-schedule a rule. A time change that contradicts the rule’s own name is reverted automatically — your 7 PM rule stays a 7 PM rule unless the change is clearly intentional.
Docs corrections (the pairing switch is on the Powerwall itself, not the Gateway) and a sharper soldial.com tab icon.

Go Off-Grid update v17 July 17, 2026

Go Off-Grid, from your phone. Paired Powerwall systems get a Go Off-Grid button in Powerwall Management: disconnect your home from the utility grid on demand and run on your own solar and batteries — then tap Go Online to reconnect seamlessly. A confirmation explains exactly what will happen, and the button grays out when your Powerwall is below the minimum charge to island safely.
Off-grid automations. “Go off-grid” and “Reconnect to grid” are now automation actions. Each off-grid rule carries its own safety floor — only if Powerwall above N% (default 20) — and skips rather than islanding a low battery. The automation assistant understands requests like “go off-grid when my Powerwall is full.”
Operational mode in the app. Switch your Powerwall between Backup-Only, Self-Powered, and Savings right from Powerwall Management — synced both ways with the Tesla app.
Smart skip for grid commands. SolDial checks your grid state before sending: going off-grid while already islanded, or reconnecting while already on the grid, sends nothing — History simply notes it wasn’t needed.
Powerwall tab, reorganized. Four independent sections — Powerwall Management, Powerwall Devices, Wall Connectors, and Solar String Detail — each collapses and reorders on its own, and your layout is remembered.
Notifications tell you which rule fired. Automation alerts are now titled with your rule’s name instead of a generic “SolDial automation.”
Time rules fire on time. A rule set for 9:45 can no longer fire at 9:44, and a rule created at or after its scheduled time waits for the next occurrence instead of firing the moment you save it.
Combined rules wait for ALL conditions. An “A AND B” rule now fires only at the moment both sides are true.
Fewer false outage alerts. Real-time outage detection now cross-checks actual meter power before declaring an outage, so a glitchy status reading with kilowatts still flowing no longer pings you.
Public status page — status.soldial.com. Every part of SolDial — the app, the website, the automations engine, and Tesla’s own API — monitored from independent infrastructure with live state, 90-day uptime history, and incident updates. Incidents and their resolution history stay published on the page. A Service Status link now sits in the header of every soldial.com page.
Trial emails that earn their keep. A day-5 trial recap shows what your account actually did — automations run, alerts sent, measured savings — and new subscribers get a thank-you recapping the value aligned to their goals. Every lifecycle email now includes one-click unsubscribe.

Dashboard update v16 July 13, 2026

Saved by SolDial now measures Powerwall arbitrage. On time-of-use and hourly-price plans, every day SolDial actually steered your Powerwall — a real charge, discharge, or reserve change it made, not one that was already in place — is now valued at your own hourly prices: what it saved by powering your home through the expensive hours, minus what it cost to bank that energy when power was cheap. Days it can’t prove, it doesn’t claim — the same honest rule as everything else on the tile. Watch for the new receipt: “Powerwall arbitrage — charged cheap, discharged at peak.”
Honest monthly estimates — overlapping rules counted once. The “estimated ~$X/mo” figure on your dashboard no longer double-counts overlapping automations: several rules that steer the same battery cycle now count once (the largest estimate stands), and per-car charging counts once per car. Each rule still shows its own estimate — only the headline total is de-duplicated, so it reflects what you’d actually save.

1.2.1 (Build 14) Apple · Wear OS 100008 v15 July 12, 2026

Keep-on-screen goes fully dark — and sips instead of gulps. With Keep on screen enabled, dropping your wrist now blacks the screen out completely and stops data fetching altogether — previously a dimmed dial stayed lit and polling around the clock, which is where the battery went. Raise your wrist and the dial fades back in over a beat, with a fresh reading fetched that instant. Same always-there feel, a fraction of the battery. The setting now says plainly that it uses extra battery while on.
Steadier complication refreshes. Complications now answer instantly from the watch’s recent cached reading and keep network fetches on a short leash — a slow connection can’t stall a refresh cycle. The Powerwall icon in the app’s list also grows into true Powerwall proportions.
Unpair from either side — the other side follows. Unpair from the phone and the watch drops to its pairing screen on its next refresh; unpair from the watch and the phone’s paired-devices list clears on its next look — both directions, on both platforms. A flaky connection never un-pairs anything — only an explicit server answer does.
The watch offers Keep-on-screen once. Right after pairing the app asks — once, ever — whether you want the dial as your wrist-up view, with the battery trade-off stated. One tap turns it on; “Not now” never asks again (the setting stays in the gear menu).
The SolDial mark greets you. Both watch apps’ loading screens now show the SolDial logo with the phone app’s spinning animation — centered, in place of plain text.
The dial’s sayings check the panels, not just the sky. When the sky report says clouds, fog, rain, or snow but strong sun is measurably on your panels, the gloomy lines step aside for ones that match reality — live irradiance plus actual production decide, so a snow-covered roof under a bright sky still gets the honest “held back by the snow.” And every saying now fits even the narrowest phones.

1.2 (Build 13) Apple · Wear OS 100006 v14 July 11, 2026

Twelve new watch complications — Today, Month, and Billing totals. Every number from the watch app’s swipe pages is now pinnable on your watch face, on both platforms: solar generated, home used, net grid, and net Powerwall for today, the calendar month, and your billing cycle. They read just like the live ones — metric icon + value — with kWh marking them apart from live kW at a glance, and net values signed. Names follow one scheme everywhere: Live · Solar, Today · Grid, Month · Home, Billing · Powerwall, and so on. See the watch guide.
Tap a complication, land on that number. Tapping any SolDial complication now opens the watch app with that metric front and center as the hero KPI — a Today, Month, or Billing complication lands on its page too — instead of wherever you last left the app. Works the same on Apple Watch and Wear OS.
Stats cards for the Smart Stack (Apple Watch). The rectangular power-flow card now comes in four flavors — Live, Today, This Month, and Billing Month — each showing all four totals in one glance, ready for the Smart Stack or any rectangular slot. The Live card carries the app’s direction arrows (grid import ▼ / export ▲, Powerwall charging ▲ / discharging ▼), and Billing shows dashes until you set a cycle day instead of pretending zeros.
Keep SolDial on screen (Wear OS). A new toggle in the watch app’s settings keeps the dial as your wrist-up view instead of returning to the watch face — it dims to a clean black dial when your wrist drops and wakes to full color when you look up. Off by default — expect extra battery use while it’s on. (Apple Watch: the same behavior is Apple’s own setting — Settings → General → Return to Clock → SolDial.)
Big totals read right. Once a window crosses 1,000 kWh — a billing month on a larger system will — totals roll over to MWh everywhere on the wrist: apps, tiles, complications, and cards.

1.1 (Build 12) Apple · 1.0 (Build 15) Android v13 July 10, 2026

Autopilot and Suggestions can now manage grid charging and exports — within your permissions. Once your System Info answers say your utility allows it, the AI gets full flexibility with both toggles: enable grid charging for the cheap overnight window and turn it off when it ends, stop exports during low-value hours, or — on net-billing plans and VPPs — export battery power when it actually pays. Protective moves (grid charging off, exports off) never need a permission. On 1:1 net metering, battery export stays off automatically (storage agreements typically prohibit it) — unless you’re VPP-enrolled, where event exports are the whole point.
Scheduled changes no longer skip at busy moments. Hourly rule changes across all users used to fire in the same instant, and a rate limiter could silently drop some — roughly one in six boundary changes since June 20. Commands are now paced out over a few seconds and transient rejections retry automatically, so your rule’s change lands every time.
If a rule can’t run, you’ll know why. When an automation is skipped because a System Info permission denies it, the app shows a popup on your next visit naming the rule and exactly what it needed, with an Update Setting button that jumps straight to the right question — highlighted in red, the way required fields flash. Creating a rule that exceeds your permissions gets the same treatment right in the builder.
Permission questions that say what they mean. The System Info export and grid-charging questions now spell out that they ask what your utility allows — not a preference — and answering No warns you exactly how many active rules will stop working before you save.
Outage alerts double-check before firing. A “grid outage” notification now requires two consecutive readings showing the grid down — a single stale reading from the gateway (the source of every recent false alarm) arms a pending check instead of alerting. A real outage arrives a few minutes later at most; a phantom one never arrives at all. “Power restored” stays instant.

1.1 (Build 12) Apple · 1.0 (Build 15) Android v12 July 10, 2026

SolDial arrives on Apple Watch. The watch app lands on watchOS with everything the wrist deserves: the live power-flow dial under your real sky, swipeable Today / This Month / Billing Month totals, complications for all four numbers (solar, home, grid, Powerwall charge) plus a rectangular Smart Stack card, and one-code pairing — tap the code field and a keypad slides up, no signing in on the watch. Pairs alongside a Wear OS watch; each platform has its own slot. A SolDial Pro feature (trials included).
Swipe your watch for Today, This Month, and Billing Month. On both watch platforms, the live dial now swipes up through three more views: today’s totals, month-to-date, and your billing cycle to date — solar generated, home used (cars included), net grid (+ cost money / − banked credit), and net Powerwall (+ discharged / − charged), all in kWh under the same sky. Chevrons under the timestamp show where you are, Billing Month appears once you’ve set a billing cycle day, and the watch remembers the view you left it on.
Four Wear OS tiles. Live, Today, This Month, and Billing Month each get their own tile — swipe from the watch face straight to any of them, no app-open needed.
Watch pairing polish. The pairing screen fits every round display at every system font size, the Pair button sits with the code, and the phone now detects the watch instantly and shows the paired device — with a Cancel button if you change your mind.
A new home on soldial.com. The watch apps get their own section on the front page, plus watch and widgets documentation.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 15) Android v11 July 9, 2026

SolDial on your wrist — the Wear OS watch app. Pair a Wear OS watch from Settings → Watch with a one-time 6-digit code — no signing in on the watch. You get the live power-flow dial as a full watch app and a glanceable tile — solar, home, grid, and Powerwall charge, under the same sky scene and sun position as your dashboard — plus watch-face complications for all four numbers. A SolDial Pro feature (trials included); if Pro lapses, the watch says so instead of going quietly stale.
Weather that matches your window. Current conditions now come from the nearest National Weather Service station’s live observation — the actual sky — instead of a forecast model’s best guess. If it’s overcast at your house, SolDial says so, even when the model disagrees. (US sites; international sites keep the model.)
Storms can’t hide behind mist anymore. Same-day follow-up: weather stations report “fog/mist” any minute rain isn’t hitting their sensor, which briefly labeled an active thunderstorm “Foggy.” SolDial now reads the station’s full list of observed weather (storm beats rain beats fog) and lets the forecast model upgrade a mist report when it sees precipitation — while an explicit clear-or-cloudy station report still always wins.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v10 July 7, 2026

Your monthly savings, in a note. Once a month SolDial sends a short recap of what it measurably saved you that month — and how that stacks up against your subscription. It only arrives when there’s a real figure to show (never a “$0” message), and you can turn it off in notification settings.
Accurate bill-trend alerts for solar homes. The “your bill is trending high” notification used to price every kilowatt-hour you pulled from the grid while ignoring everything your solar sent back — alarming net-metering households with tiny real bills. It now credits your exports the way your utility does (full retail on 1:1 net metering, your export rate on net billing), frames the projection on your actual billing cycle, and stays quiet unless the projected bill is real money.
Your automation history survives a reset. Using “Start fresh” to rebuild Energy Autopilot no longer erases your past run history. Older entries stay put — marked “Removed” where the rule no longer exists — so you keep the full record of what ran and when.
“Saved by SolDial” now counts Powerwall round-trip. If you keep your Powerwall full on a 1:1 net-metering plan, you avoid the roughly 10% lost every time a battery charges and discharges. That recovered amount now shows as its own line in your savings — measured from your actual usage, once you’ve made the switch.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v9 July 6, 2026

SolDial is now on Google Play. The Android app is live on the Play Store — search “SolDial” or grab it from soldial.com. iPhone and Android are both generally available now.
Ameren Illinois Power Smart Pricing is here. Hourly pricing now supports its second program: pick “Ameren Illinois — Power Smart Pricing” in Settings → Utility Rates (or look your plan up by zip) and SolDial pulls Ameren’s posted prices automatically — live price, price-threshold automations, savings math, and Autopilot strategies all work just like ComEd. And because Ameren sets prices a day ahead, your dashboard plans the whole day — the cheapest stretch to charge, the peak to ride out on battery — plus a Tomorrow tab each evening showing tomorrow’s exact posted prices, tonight.
See what SolDial saves you. A new “Saved by SolDial” dashboard section shows the real dollars SolDial’s automations have saved you — counted only from what’s provable, like charging your rules moved into cheaper hours, priced at your actual rates. The number counts up over a running savings curve, a monthly bar tracks it against what your active rules expect to save, and receipt rows show where each dollar came from. On a trial it reads as savings so far plus your monthly pace; on the free plan it shows what SolDial could save you from your own rate plan and usage. It appears the day you have a savings story to show — and not before.
Autopilot never changes your grid-charging or export settings. Those two Tesla settings mirror your arrangement with your utility — changing them could even affect your credits or compliance — so they’re yours alone. Autopilot now reads their live state, plans around them, and never flips them, for anyone.
Honest physics for keeping the Powerwall full. A Powerwall at full reserve only refills from solar unless your own Grid Charging setting is on — so with it off, a few percent of overnight drift is normal. Autopilot now knows this: with Grid Charging on, your battery genuinely holds 100%; with it off, the plan plainly says the small overnight dip is expected, and that turning on Grid Charging in the Tesla app (if your utility allows it) would pin it — instead of quietly shipping a plan that can’t deliver.
No more backwards “reached backup reserve” alerts. If you keep your Powerwall full, an alert warning that the battery had discharged to its reserve made no sense. Autopilot no longer creates it for keep-full setups — your outage alerts still cover the real event.
Dollar estimates are back on money-saving rules. Rules that genuinely lower your bill again show a defensible monthly $ estimate with the reasoning behind it; only notifications and protection or readiness rules stay unlabeled.
Steadier, more consistent plans. The same setup now produces the same Autopilot plan run to run, a full-reserve backup floor always wins over any money-saving strategy that would cycle the battery, and Autopilot no longer re-sends a Powerwall command when the setting is already where it wants it.
More “also important to me” choices. Saving money, energy independence, and backup readiness can each be picked as a secondary priority too — whichever one is your primary goal is automatically left out of the list.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v8 July 5, 2026

One warning, everywhere, steady. When a car has a problem — like charging without reporting its power — you now see a single gold warning mark (⚠) next to the car’s name, the same on the Power Flow dial and the Cars tab, appearing and clearing together with no more flicker. It shows within about two minutes of a charge starting with no power reading (instead of 5–7) and clears the instant a real kW reading arrives.
Tap the warning for a proper explainer. On the Cars tab the warning now opens a centered popup with the plain-language fix (a quick in-car restart) and an OK button — replacing the old inline wall of text.
Live car numbers, about three times faster. While a car charges, its kW now updates roughly every 15 seconds end to end — charge starts and stops show up in well under half a minute.
Stalled car data now fixes itself. When a charging car’s live power stream goes quiet, SolDial automatically re-sends the car’s data settings — which restores the stream within about half a minute in most cases — before showing any warning. The mark only appears if that self-repair didn’t take, with an in-car restart as the remaining fix.
The charging line means measured power. Power Flow draws the animated line to a car only while a real power reading is flowing — if the reading freezes, the line stops instead of animating a stale number, and the warning now also catches a stream that dies mid-charge, not just one that never started.
Charge stops settle cleanly. When a charge ends, the car’s line, kW, charging arrow, and your Home number now settle together instead of racing each other — no more Home briefly reading 0.0 kW and no green arrow lingering after the car stopped.
Idle cars look calm again. A car that isn’t charging — including one that just finished — now shows its battery % with a quiet “– idle,” full brightness, just like the Powerwall. No more graying or an info dot for a car that’s simply parked; that muted look is reserved for cars that truly can’t report data.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v7 July 3, 2026

Hourly (real-time) pricing plans. SolDial now supports plans where the price changes every hour with the wholesale market — starting with ComEd Hourly Pricing (BESH/RRTP). It’s a third plan type alongside Flat and Time-of-Use: pick your provider and you’re done — no windows or prices to enter, SolDial pulls the price live from then on. Looking your plan up by zip recognizes hourly plans and switches you automatically. Read the guide.
Today’s real prices on your dashboard. Hourly users get a new dashboard section named after their plan: the price right now (color-coded cheap → expensive, with a rising/falling arrow), a curve of today’s actual prices from midnight up to this hour, and today’s low, average, and high. Your price automations’ thresholds are drawn right on the curve, so you can see exactly where they’ll fire — and why they already did. These are real prices from ComEd’s own feed, never estimates.
Automations and Autopilot ride the live price. The electricity price trigger fires on live-price crossings, typically within a minute — charge the Powerwall while power is near-free overnight, ride the battery through evening spikes. Energy Autopilot understands hourly plans too: it builds price-threshold strategies around your goals instead of fixed clock windows. Grid charging still only ever happens if you’ve allowed it.
Seasonal flat rates read correctly. A plan that keeps one price all day but changes it by season — like Atlantic City Electric’s RS — now shows as a flat rate with a seasonal price instead of being mislabeled Time-of-Use, and SolDial applies the right season’s price automatically as the year turns.
Your imported rate stays current on its own. Once your plan is set from the database, SolDial keeps it up to date: when it rolls into a new season it applies the new price, and when your utility refiles the plan with new numbers it updates your saved rate to match — notifying you both times. A rate you set or edited by hand is never touched. How rate plans work.
Charging status no longer flickers to “Not charging.” The car card and Power Flow now read Tesla’s charging state directly, so a charging car shows as Charging the moment you open the app — the live kW figure fills in a few seconds later.
Charging power shows for a car you share. If the same Tesla is connected on two SolDial accounts — like a couple who both added the family car — its live charging power now shows for both of you. Before, one person closing the app could stop the other’s live kW reading, so the car looked like it was charging with no power.
A heads-up when a charging car isn’t reporting power. If your car is charging but Tesla has stopped sending its live power, Power Flow now shows a small warning mark (⚠) next to the car. Tapping the car jumps straight to its card, where a plain-language explainer walks you through the quick restart that gets the kW flowing again.
No phantom flow to a finished car. Power Flow no longer draws a trickle of power to a car that’s done charging — once a car reports Complete or Stopped, its line goes quiet.
Autopilot’s first run builds your complete starter set. The very first Energy Autopilot run — and every “Start fresh” rebuild — now covers every strategy that applies to your rate plan in one pass, including price rules on hourly plans, instead of starting small and filling gaps on later runs.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v6 July 2, 2026

Charge your Tesla from surplus solar. A new per-car Charge on Solar control tops your car up from the extra power your panels make once your home and Powerwall are covered — and pauses when the surplus fades, so you’re charging on sunshine instead of the grid. Confirm your car and charger are set up for it with two quick toggles. Add an optional Powerwall priority to fill your battery to a percentage you choose before any solar goes to the car — so you can keep your everyday backup reserve low and still bank the Powerwall up to your target on sunny days before topping off the car. You also set your everyday “charge from any source” level (the yellow marker on the charge slider): it acts as a floor so the car never sits too low, and it tells Energy Autopilot and Suggestions your real everyday charge cap, so their recommendations match how you actually charge. It reads your Powerwall’s charge in real time, so it reacts right away instead of waiting on Tesla’s slower cloud reading.
Home or Away on your cars. Each car now shows whether it’s Home or Away from Home, and Power Flow and automations use it so a car charging somewhere else doesn’t count against your house. SolDial never tracks your location — it reads a flag Tesla provides that marks the car home or away, based on a home location you set in Tesla that we never see. When that flag isn’t available, SolDial falls back to working it out from your Power Flow math.
Start fresh with Energy Autopilot. A new Start fresh button wipes Autopilot’s automations and rebuilds them from a clean slate — handy after you change your setup or goals. It’s available once every 5 hours, and the confirmation reminds you it will also forget rules you’d deleted on purpose, so Autopilot may recreate those.
A 7-day free trial on both plans. The free trial now covers the yearly plan too, not just monthly — every new subscriber gets their first week free on either plan, with a clearer checkout that spells it out.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v5 June 28, 2026

Automate on your car’s charge level. A new automation trigger fires when one of your cars reaches a charge level you set — whether it’s charging up to it or running down to it. Perfect for “let me know when my car hits 80%” or “tell me when it drops to 20%.” You can build it from the picker or just type it in plain English.
See your EV charging on the Energy Chart. Car charging now appears as its own Car band stacked on top of home use, so a big overnight grid draw reads clearly as your car instead of unexplained import. It shows whenever you charge through a Tesla Wall Connector, and adds up across multiple cars.
Weather alerts, only once. A multi-day weather alert (like an Extreme Heat Watch) now notifies you a single time for its whole active period, instead of repeating every few hours.
No more false low-solar alarms. The “solar production looks low” alert now cross-checks your live production before sending, so it won’t fire on a perfectly normal day.
Larger text size fits the screen. At the Larger accessibility text size, the notifications panel and the bottom tab labels no longer get cut off, and the Current State rows no longer overlap the status label with the kW value.
Quieter car status. The little status label under each car now appears only when there’s actually something to do (like finishing setup) — instead of always showing “Real-time” or “Reconnecting.”
Energy Autopilot and Suggestions are now labeled Beta. These AI features are live and improving — if something looks off, you can report it right from Account → Help.
Delete an Autopilot rule and it stays gone. Autopilot no longer recreates an automation you’ve removed on purpose.
Smarter suggestions on 1:1 net metering. On a flat 1:1 plan, SolDial now recommends keeping your Powerwall full for backup rather than a low reserve — since the grid already banks your solar one-for-one.
A clear screen when there’s no energy system yet. If your Tesla account doesn’t have a Powerwall or solar system connected, SolDial now says so plainly instead of showing sample data.
More reliable account deletion. Deleting your account now completes cleanly and sends you to Tesla to remove SolDial, even on a slow connection.

1.0 (Build 11) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v4 June 18, 2026

Tell SolDial what matters most. A new Energy Goals section in Settings lets you choose what your system optimizes for — saving money, energy independence, backup readiness, or a balance — set a minimum backup reserve you never want to drop below, and flag extras like battery longevity or keeping an EV ready. Energy Autopilot and Suggestions build every recommendation around your choice.
See your system during an outage. When the grid goes down, Power Flow now marks the grid with a red × and 0 kW, and the Powerwall shows your live hours of backup remaining at your current usage, so you know how long you can ride it out.
Combined grid numbers for a linked array. If you’ve linked a second array (like a barn roof) into your main system, your grid export and home totals now include that array’s share instead of under-counting it.
Critical Peak Pricing. If your utility runs Critical Peak Pricing event days, you can now enter the critical-peak rate and flag an event day so your savings and automations price those hours correctly. Rate setup also warns you if your custom time-of-use windows leave a gap or overlap.
Clearer connection status. The live status word now reads WiFi, Cloud, Degraded, or Offline — “Offline” meaning SolDial isn’t receiving data, clearer than the old “Outage” that could be mistaken for a power outage.
Automation history shows what changed. Tap any entry in your Automation history to see exactly what it moved — for example “Backup reserve: 20% to 100%.” Rules you fire yourself with Run now are tagged Manual test, so a manual test is never confused with an automatic action.
The time filter shows your time zone. The Choose Time Filter control now reflects your system’s local time zone instead of always showing Eastern.
Smoother onboarding. Pick your text size right on the welcome screen, with each step fit to one screen (no scrolling or cut-off), consistent buttons, and a step to set your Energy Goals.

1.0 (Build 10) Apple · 1.0 (Build 14) Android v3 June 13, 2026

Home-screen widgets are now on iPhone. Put SolDial right on your Home Screen. A wide Energy Glance shows your Powerwall charge, today’s solar vs. expected, money saved, self-powered %, and net grid at a glance — and smaller single-stat widgets (Powerwall charge, Solar, Savings, Self-Powered and Net Grid) each carry a 14-day trend line that shifts green, blue or red as that number improves, holds steady or slips. (Android has had widgets since Build 13.) Widget guide.

1.0 (Build 9) Apple · 1.0 (Build 13) Android v2 June 12, 2026

More than one Tesla system? SolDial now handles them as a set. Switch between your systems from the top of the dashboard, rename them so they’re not cryptic Tesla labels, and show or hide the ones you don’t want cluttering the view.
Combine a linked solar array. If a second array feeds into your main system — say a separate barn or shop roof backing through your Powerwall’s panel — you can link them, and your production, home use, and Power Flow then reflect the combined system, closing a gap where Tesla doesn’t credit the feeder’s output to your main meter.
Automations that understand multiple systems. Energy Autopilot and Suggestions now size solar strategies to your combined production and only act on the system that actually holds the Powerwalls — a generation-only array has nothing to control.
Hold to read the Energy Chart on Android. Press and hold to see exact values at any moment, drag to scrub across the day, and tap away to dismiss — the way it already worked on iPhone (it had been vanishing after a second).
Today’s Solar Pace stays to-the-minute and now lines up with the Energy Chart instead of lagging behind it.
Settings save as you go. Onboarding and Settings now save each field as you enter it, so you won’t lose a change by moving on — Save is still there to catch anything required.
Automation alerts read correctly when they fire. A weather or Powerwall alert now fills in the right day and your live backup hours at send time, instead of freezing whatever was true when the rule was created.
Enter sub-dollar rates correctly. A rate like “.0827” per kWh no longer drops its leading part.
Faster Powerwall reserve and vitals — refreshing about every 5 seconds instead of every 30, so changes show almost immediately.
Tap the live status to learn what it means. The LAN / Cloud / Degraded / Outage word on the dial now opens a plain-language explainer — including that “Outage” means a data gap, not a power outage.
Clearer setup without a Backup Gateway. A system that doesn’t have a Tesla Backup Gateway now gets a plain “cloud data only” message instead of a failing retry loop.
Cleaner rate plan list — when a utility lists the same plan under several near-identical names, SolDial shows it once.

1.0 (Build 9) Apple · 1.0 (Build 13) Android v1 June 11, 2026

Home-screen widgets — Android. A new “Energy Glance” widget shows your Powerwall charge ring with today’s solar-vs-expected pace, savings, self-powered %, and net grid — over a faint Powerwall silhouette. Or pick from five 1×1 minis: Powerwall ring, solar pace, saved, self-powered, and net grid. (iPhone widgets coming soon.)
“Today” chart no longer loads blank. Fixed the Energy Chart sometimes coming up empty for Today after the app sat in the background (e.g. overnight) — it now re-pins the window and refetches the moment you reopen.
A full Powerwall no longer clips the chart. The battery and reserve lines have room at the top, so a 100% Powerwall sits cleanly inside the Energy Chart instead of touching the edge.
More accurate weather. SolDial never shows the forecast high as the current temperature anymore — the current reading and the day’s High/Low are separate. The dial’s weather readout was also rebalanced for legibility.
Weather stays in sync across your devices — and updates sooner. Conditions (and the matching background photo) now come from one shared source, so your phones agree, and they refresh about 3× more often.
Storm Watch reads correctly and reacts fast. Fixed it sometimes showing “disabled” when it was actually on, and changes now reflect within about 5 seconds.
Wall Connector stays visible off-network. Your Wall Connector keeps its last-known details when you leave your home network, instead of dropping to a reduced view.
Set your default chart range. Choose the time range your charts open to — Today, billing cycle, and more — saved to your account.
Fewer false “Outage” flags. The live indicator no longer briefly flips to “Outage” right after you reopen the app or toggle Wi-Fi — only a real, sustained loss of data triggers it.
A clear prompt if your Tesla session expires. Instead of quietly stopping, SolDial now shows a reconnect banner and sends a notification, so you can reconnect in one tap.

1.0 (Build 9) Apple · 1.0 (Build 12) Android v2 June 10, 2026

Faster, local Power Flow. On your home Wi-Fi with a paired Powerwall, the dial now reads straight from your Powerwall Gateway over your local network and refreshes every few seconds — no more waiting on Tesla’s cloud to catch up. SolDial falls back to the cloud automatically when you’re away or off your network.
See where your live data comes from. The live status now leads with its source — LAN when reading from your local network, CLOUD when it’s coming from Tesla, or OUTAGE when live data isn’t reaching the app from either source.
Power Flow knows when your car is charging away. If you’re charging at work or a Supercharger, SolDial no longer draws the charging line back to your house — it recognizes the car isn’t home.
Pick your text size. A Smaller / Default / Larger control in Settings scales the whole app, and it’s now solid on both iPhone and Android — no clipped screens, hidden cards, or misplaced popups at larger sizes.
Smoother section reordering. Dragging a Dashboard, Devices, or Cars section over an expanded one no longer flickers.
Cleaner load with the photo hidden. If you’ve turned off the dial’s time-of-day photo, the app now opens straight to the plain background instead of briefly flashing the photo first.
Full “Last Synced” times. Powerwall, Solar String, and Wall Connector all show the full date and time they were last synced.
No more repeat weather alerts. Weather-based automations now notify you at most once a day instead of occasionally repeating.
Lighter on data. SolDial no longer re-downloads the same energy history several times when multiple cards need it, trimming background data use.

1.0 (Build 9) Apple · 1.0 (Build 12) Android v1 June 9, 2026

Personalize your Dashboard and Cars. Collapse and reorder sections — and cars — by dragging the handle or tapping it to move them; Power Flow stays pinned at the top. Your layout saves to your account and follows you across iPhone and Android.
Your car’s software version. Each car shows its current Tesla software version and flags whether it’s the newest across the SolDial fleet.
Standalone inverters stick around. If part of your solar runs through a non-Tesla “string” inverter, its production keeps showing in Solar String Detail even when it isn’t generating right now.
Wall Connectors. Your Tesla Wall Connector(s) now appear in the new Devices tab — live charging power, unit and handle temperatures, grid voltage and frequency, firmware version, and lifetime energy delivered. Tap the connector to recolor it to match yours, tap the eye to reveal its serial, and see which car is plugged in.
Both connectors, even when they share power. If you have two Wall Connectors sharing a circuit, the second one — which Tesla keeps off your home network — still shows up with its live charging status.
Wall Connector firmware status. Each connector shows whether it’s on the current firmware or an update is available.
Devices tab. The Powerwall tab is now “Devices.” Collapse its sections and drag (or tap) the handle to reorder them — and SolDial remembers your layout next time you open it.
Bigger, more readable text across the whole app — dashboard, charts, navigation and settings.
Redesigned rate setup. Enter your ZIP first, then pick your utility and plan — your rates fill in for you. Seasonal time-of-use windows now show their date range (e.g. 6/1 – 9/30).
Correct subscription store. Your plan now correctly shows whether it's billed through the App Store or Google Play, with cleaner handling when you subscribed on another device.
Solar Pace polish. Today's headline number shows its kWh unit cleanly, and the Powerwall "Cont. Max Output" label no longer gets cut off.
Plain-language errors. When something goes wrong, you'll see a clear message instead of a raw technical one.
Smarter automations. Energy Autopilot and Suggestions now only plan actions for vehicles they can actually control.
In-app messages. We can now reach you with updates inside the app, and you can mark them as read.
This page. Added soldial.com/versions so you can follow what's new.
Correct sunrise and sunset times. Fixed a case where the dial and Weather panel could show the wrong time — including ZIP codes that were resolving to the wrong location entirely.
ZIP check in System Info. Entering a ZIP that isn't a valid US ZIP is now caught right away with a clear message, instead of quietly saving the wrong location.
Clearer setup for an unpaired car. A Tesla that still needs its key paired now shows a "Finish pairing this car" prompt instead of a confusing 0% charge.
Better car names. Vehicles show their model (e.g. "Model Y," "Model 3") when a custom name isn't available from your Tesla account, instead of a generic "Tesla."
More accurate solar estimates. Your forecast re-checks its accuracy against your current system details, with a new "Recalibrate" button in Settings → System Info if you change your panels.
Hide the dashboard photo. Tap the eye icon on the dial to fade the time-of-day photo away for a clean, plain background — and tap again to bring it back.
Tidier Powerwall cards. Each Powerwall's serial number now sits neatly under its name.
Android Powerwall pairing. Pairing now reliably finds your Powerwall Gateway during setup on Android.
Reliable live updates for new cars. Fixed a case where a newly added Tesla could get stuck and never show live updates even when it was fully connected. SolDial now keeps retrying on its own, and if a car still needs a nudge it shows a quick one-step restart.
Powerwall degradation matches your warranty. Each Powerwall’s degradation is now measured against its 13.5 kWh rated capacity — the same figure your Tesla warranty is based on — so it lines up with what you’d check against your warranty.

1.0 (Build 8) v1 June 8, 2026

Complete energy history. Your charts now fill in from your system's install date and automatically heal gaps left by power outages.
More reliable Tesla sign-in. Fixed a case where sign-in could hang on the Tesla page.
Smoother scrolling throughout onboarding and settings on both iOS and Android.
Clearer Powerwall setup. Pairing shows a steady "building device info" countdown, and your Powerwall model is detected automatically.
Subscription management fixes. Manage and cancel links always point to the correct store, and founders pricing reflects your store's eligible intro offer.
Share your feedback. Added an in-app survey so you can help shape what we build next.
Account deletion is now fully in-app, with a goodbye page and a quick exit survey.
Updated Xcel Colorado time-of-use plan to the current 2026 schedule.