Unofficial Amber Electric iOS / WatchOS client
Download here: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/amber-electric-unofficial/id1482475581?mt=8.
This is a developer/hobbyist implementation of a native iOS app to display live Amber Electric retail electricity prices. To create an account with Amber Electric firstly visit the Amber Electric Website.
LICENSE MIT
Platform support:
- iPhone (iOS 13.0+)
- iPhone Today Extension (home screen widget)
- Apple Watch Extension (including complications)
- iPad
- MacOS
iOS Features
- Live price
- Predicted Prices (30min increments)
- Background fetch
- Local Notification when prices below $0.00
- Dark Mode
- Historical prices
- Historical account usage
- Localization
- Siri shortcuts
WatchOS Features & Complications
- Native login on WatchApp
- Standalone WatchApp support
- Watch app (limited functionality - can be better)
- Background fetch
- circularSmall complication
- modularSmall complication
- modularLarge complication
- utilitarianSmall complication
- utilitarianSmallFlat complication
- utilitarianLarge complication
- extraLarge complication
- graphicCorner complication
- graphicBezel complication
- graphicCircular complication
- graphicRectangular complication
This is not something I'll be maintaining full time, but I will regularly release updates to the App Store as patches come in.
Please try to minimise external depedencies. I will consider adding Podfile if there's a really good reason, but ideally it stays as lightweight as possible and uses vanilla Apple SDK's where possible. This is to maximise long term support and for ease of development and the ability for others to make modifications.
Install Instructions (I think...!)
- Clone repo
- Open xcodeproj file in latest XCode11+
- Change team identifier to your own in all extensions (don't check in changes to this)
- You may need to change the BundleID to something unique (don't check in changes to this)
Please update this README if my install instructions don't work for you.
I'm not using any linting here but please keep code style similar for consistency.
Things that probably need doing
- Saving user credentials in Keychain instead of UserDefaults
- Main WatchOS app should be better. Right now I've prioritised the complications that I use, and I don't use the main app.
- More WatchOS complications.
- Historical Usage. I have the API reading these from the Amber API (disabled...) but no UI implemented.
- iPad support with flattened views. Probably only useful once Historical usage implemented.
- MacOS support (bonus points for top toolbar widget!)