ZeroCore Pi puts you back in control — local intelligence, no cloud dependency. Everything the GivEnergy app did. Running on hardware you own.
GivEnergy had around 35% of the UK home battery market. The app still runs today — but it's operated by a separate company with an uncertain future, and your battery can't see tomorrow's grid either way.
ZeroCore Pi is a small device that installs on your home network and talks directly to your GivEnergy inverter — no cloud middleman required. It reads real-time data, builds a full daily plan from Agile prices and solar forecast, and gives you a live dashboard from any device on your network. Everything runs on hardware in your home.
ZeroCore Pi is built around a Raspberry Pi 4 — a proven, widely-supported single-board computer used in millions of homes and businesses worldwide. We flash it with our energy management software, pre-configure it for GivEnergy, and ship it ready to plug in. If you know what a Pi is, you'll appreciate the choice. If you don't, all that matters is: it's small, silent, reliable, and it just works.
zerocore.local — 5 minutesAt 16:10 each afternoon, ZeroCore fetches tomorrow's Agile prices, your solar forecast, the weather, and your household patterns — then builds and executes a full day plan on your Pi. Refreshes at 06:05. You never make a decision.
Live battery, solar, and grid telemetry. Today's plan with price colour-coding. Historical views. Export earnings. Import cost breakdown. It's a progressive web app — install it on your phone with one tap.
A complete replacement for the features you relied on — and several the app never offered.
Most battery tools ask you to set rules. ZeroCore makes the decisions — every day, automatically, based on what the grid actually needs tomorrow. And it doesn't vanish if a company does.
| Capability | ZeroCore Pi | GivEnergy app (legacy) | Rule-based schedulers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Survives GivEnergy going dark | ✓ Fully local | ✗ Cloud-dependent | ▸ Depends on vendor |
| Daily autonomous plan from Agile prices | ✓ Full day plan | ✗ | ▸ Price triggers only |
| Solar forecast integration | ✓ Solcast, twice daily | ✗ | ▸ Some tools |
| Temperature-adjusted house load model | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EV dispatch coordination (Hypervolt) | ✓ Websocket, real-time | ✗ | ✗ |
| Saving Sessions & Free Electricity events | ✓ Auto-detected | ▸ Manual | ✗ |
| User decisions required daily | Zero | Manual schedule | ▸ Configure rules |
| Firmware reset protection | ✓ Plan rebuilt automatically | ✗ Settings lost | ✗ Settings lost |
| Ongoing cost | £190 one-off · £0/yr possible | ▸ Free, but uncertain | ▸ Subscription |
ZeroCore wasn't invented for the GivEnergy pivot. It's been running autonomously on the founder's own GivEnergy system since March 2026 — the Pi version packages that same software into hardware you can unbox and plug in.
No subscription required. Optional remote access if you want it — nothing locked behind a cloud you don't own.
Includes first year's ZeroCore Cloud remote access.
Then just £20/year for remote access & push notifications — or use it locally, forever, free.