--- title: "Amber Express" description: "Amber Express is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 181 installs sharing analytics, needs the vendor's cloud and was last updated October 25, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/hass-energy-amber-express" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/hass-energy-amber-express.md" last-updated: "2026-10-22" version: "1.4" --- # Amber Express > Amber Express is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 181 installs sharing analytics, needs the vendor's cloud and was last updated October 25, 2026. Amber Express is an integration that pulls Amber Electric electricity prices into Home Assistant with adaptive polling. It learns when confirmed prices usually arrive and polls around those times, and it can also take updates from Amber's WebSocket API, which the README calls an alpha feature, as a second data source. It adds sensors for general, controlled load and feed-in prices, forecasts, rate limit status and next poll time, plus binary sensors for price spike and demand window and a select for pricing mode. Pricing can be based on AEMO wholesale data or on Amber's Advanced Price forecast, and an optional demand window surcharge can be added to general prices. Forecast sensors are meant to work with HAEO for energy optimization. It connects to the Amber cloud and is set up in the UI with an API token and site selection. Automatic summary of the README and code of hass-energy/amber-express. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=hass-energy&repository=amber-express&category=integration) On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=hass-energy&repository=amber-express&category=integration) ## Supports - **Uses the vendor's cloud**: Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor. - **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS. - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## Setting it up Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services. ### Amber Express - **API Token**: Your Amber Electric API token ### Name Your Site - **Site Name**: A friendly name for this site Also asked when changing the connection. ### Select Sites - **Sites**: The Amber Electric sites to monitor Also asked when changing the connection. ### Update API Token - **New API Token**: Leave empty to keep the current token ### After setup - **Hub Name**: The display name for this integration Texts from the code of [hass-energy/amber-express](https://github.com/hass-energy/amber-express). ## Entities - **Binary sensors**: Demand Window, Price Spike - **Selects**: Pricing Mode - **Sensors**: API Status, Confirmation Delay, Confirmation Lag, Controlled Load Price, Feed In Price, Forecast Horizon, General Price, Next Poll, Rate Limit Remaining, Rate Limit Reset, Renewables, Site ## Troubleshooting - **Repair notices**: Notices it can show in Settings, Repairs: Migrate removed pricing mode ## From the README > Faster Amber Electric pricing for Home Assistant and HAEO > > A Home Assistant custom integration for Amber Electric that provides faster real-time electricity pricing with smart polling and WebSocket support. > > - Simple Setup: Just like the official integration - enter your API key, select a site, and you're done > - Smart Polling: Adapts and learns when confirmed prices typically arrive and polls at those times to fetch latest prices as fast as possible > - Forecasting: Provides price forecasts for both import and feed-in channels for automations and optimizers > - Flexible Pricing: Choose between AEMO-based pricing (per\_kwh) or Amber's Advanced Price forecast (advanced\_price\_predicted) > - Waits for Confirmation: Holds previous prices until confirmed values arrive, with configurable timeout control > - Demand Window Pricing: Optionally add a surcharge during demand windows for optimization-focused automations > - WebSocket Support: Supports real-time updates via Amber's WebSocket API (alpha feature) as a redundant data source to polling > - HAEO Compatible: Forecast sensors are fully compatible with HAEO for energy optimization From the README of [hass-energy/amber-express](https://github.com/hass-energy/amber-express#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened. ## At a glance - Kind: Marketplace integration - Category: [Energy](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/energy.md), Energy prices - Number: 181 installs sharing analytics; 35 GitHub stars - Connection: Needs the vendor's cloud - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older) - Latest version: v2.0.1, last updated October 25, 2026 - Domain: `amber_express` - Source: - Issues: In Vulpo: Select card, Chart card, Apple Watch Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-10-22. 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