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Getting Started on iOS

Install the app

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Download Grid Getter from the App Store. The app requires iOS 16 or later.

Download on the App Store

Sign in or create an account

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  1. Open Grid Getter. You’ll land on the login screen.
  2. Enter your email address and password.
  3. Tap Sign In.

If you don’t have an account yet, tap Create Account to register. You’ll receive a verification email — tap the link in that email, then return to the app and tap Confirm Existing Account to complete setup.

Forgot your password? Tap Forgot Password? on the login screen to receive a reset link.

Biometric login (Face ID / Touch ID / Optic ID)

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If your device supports Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID, you can enable biometric sign-in after your first password login.

  1. Sign in with your password.
  2. Go to Settings → Security.
  3. Toggle on the biometric option for your device (Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID).
  4. Authenticate once to confirm.

On future launches, the app will prompt you to authenticate biometrically instead of typing your password.

Connect your Tesla

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After signing in for the first time, the app will prompt you to connect your Tesla account. This uses Tesla’s official OAuth flow — Grid Getter never sees your Tesla password.

  1. Tap Connect Tesla when prompted (or go to Settings → Integrations).
  2. Tesla’s login page opens inside the app (no external browser needed).
  3. Sign in to your Tesla account and approve the connection.
  4. You’ll be returned to Grid Getter automatically.

There’s no separate “connected” screen: once Tesla approves, you go straight to choosing your site. Your Powerwall and solar data will appear on the Live Dashboard within a minute.

See Tesla Connection for reconnecting if your access expires.

Choose your site

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Pick the Tesla energy site you want Grid Getter to manage and tap Continue. The site is confirmed in place, and Grid Getter then asks where it is, so it can fetch local weather for solar forecasting. The location is optional: tap Skip for now to move on, or set it later from Settings → Profile.

If Tesla didn’t return any energy sites, or you skipped connecting Tesla, Continue takes you straight to choosing a plan. You can connect or add a site afterwards.

Your goals

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Next, Grid Getter asks What do you want your battery to do? Pick one or more goals, or I’m not sure yet to let your own battery history decide. Skip this question moves on without an answer. Depending on your goals, up to four short questions follow: which goal matters more if you picked both cost goals, how much battery to keep during peak or for outages, how low the battery may go, and whether you pay a demand charge. If none apply, that step doesn’t appear. Your goals decide which automations Your Plan proposes. See Connecting Tesla for what each answer does.

Your Plan

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Once your Tesla is connected, onboarding reads your rate plan straight from Tesla and shows you a Your Plan step: the plan we detected, what we think your battery could be earning you, and the automations we’d set up for it.

What the step can tell you depends on how much of your battery history we’ve been able to read.

  • A savings range, before there’s enough history behind you. It’s modeled rather than measured: your plan’s rates, your battery’s capacity or your own recent discharge if we have at least two weeks of it, and assumptions about how much of that output lands in peak hours. The assumptions are listed under the figure, and beside it sits a range drawn from what real Grid Getter customers on plans like yours actually saved.
  • Your measured report, once your own history can support one. Same three figures as the web: what your last 30 days cost you, what they would have cost with the battery run differently, and the gap between them. See Your Report.

When it’s a savings range, the headline reads Estimated total savings, and What’s in this estimate lists the parts that make it up: time-of-use shifting and, on a plan with demand charges, DemandGuard. We cap a total that looks implausibly high, so when the parts add up to more than the total, the step says so.

Below either one, the step shows the automations built from your goals as checkable rows, each with a badge for the tier that runs it (Scheduled tier and above or Adaptive tier and above). For a demand goal these are DemandGuard rules, at a demand target you can edit, plus Pre-Peak Charge and Battery Protection; for a peak-rate goal they’re Peak Time rules plus the same two. Where one on-peak window repeats across seasons, it shows once. Uncheck anything you don’t want. A toggle decides whether the rows you left checked turn on when you upgrade. Nothing here charges you.

Skip for now skips the upgrade pitch, not the automations. The toggle alone decides whether they’re set up when you upgrade.

Choosing a plan

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If you pick a plan that can’t run the automations you queued, Grid Getter asks you to confirm first:

  • Free runs none of them, so nothing is created.
  • Scheduled sets DemandGuard windows up as Peak Time rules instead. The dialog (titled “Your plan doesn’t include DemandGuard”) offers Switch to Adaptive, which starts the Adaptive purchase in the App Store.
  • Pre-Peak Charge is set up as a grid-charging Battery Protection rule on Scheduled. A free account runs only Battery Protection.

After you subscribe, Grid Getter creates the automations. Your new plan can take a few seconds to reach our servers, so it retries for a short while before giving up. When it’s done you’ll see what was set up, including any rules created as Peak Time. If it still hasn’t worked, the automations are kept and you can tap Try again.

What’s next

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