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Loadshedding, air and your power
Ampere is an energy instrument for South African homes. It puts the load-shedding schedule, your local air quality and your own electricity use on one quiet, dark instrument face — a measured reading and the source behind it, with no alarms and no colour-coded panic. Here's how to get the most from it.
Getting started
Ampere starts empty, with no demo data and no seeded numbers. Open Settings to choose your area for load-shedding and your coordinate for air quality. Your meter readings become the only consumption truth, so the app shows clear empty states with a real entry path rather than pretending to know what it has not measured.
Load-shedding
See the current stage for your area and the next outage window, pulled live from EskomSePush. You paste your own EskomSePush access token in Settings, so the data and the key are yours. When you have not set an area, Ampere says so plainly — it never invents a schedule.
Air quality
Read the current AQI for your suburb, the US-EPA band, and per-pollutant figures (PM2.5, NO2, O3) when the station reports them, pulled live from the WAQI network for a coordinate you choose.
Your electricity
Log meter readings, register appliances and record prepaid tokens. The gap between two readings is your real consumption, and Ampere projects your prepaid balance and runout from that and from your declared appliances. Every figure is labelled ACTUAL or ESTIMATE, so you always know which is which. Insights and efficiency notes are computed only from your own data and the live grid, and each one stays locked until there is real data behind it.
Accessibility
A full accessibility section is built in and all live: larger text, bold text, reduce motion and higher contrast. Each toggle re-renders the type, theme and dial immediately.
Common questions
Do I need an account? No. Ampere has no account and no sign-in.
What data leaves my phone? Only the approximate area or coordinate you choose, sent to EskomSePush and WAQI over HTTPS to return your schedule and air reading. Your meter readings stay on the device. See our Privacy Policy.
Is Ampere an official Eskom app? No. Ampere reads a third-party EskomSePush API and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Eskom or any municipality.
Does it detect appliances by sound? Not on Android. The acoustic appliance-detection feature relies on Apple-only on-device models, so it is not included here and Ampere requests no microphone access.
Contact
We read every message. Reach us at vuyo@quantyx.co.za.
Ampere is published by Quantyx, a South African AI development house. Privacy · quantyx.co.za