About this app
Be at home even when you’re not. Remotely monitor and control your household devices with the NRG Connect app.
Mobile technology keeps us connected to every aspect of our busy lives – our friends, our work, even our finances. Now stay connected to your biggest asset, your home, with the NRG Connect app for your Android™ device.* The NRG Connect app can give you access to energy management, home automation and security devices that let you remotely control, monitor and manage your biggest investment.
Set some new house rules by programming your thermostats, controlling your small appliances and monitoring your home on the go. Receive alerts or view your account in real time from your mobile device or on the Web.
Home security and home automation services are offered by Reliant Energy Northeast LLC d/b/a “NRG Home”. NRG Home also provides retail electricity and natural gas supply. Reliant Energy Northeast LLC d/b/a as NRG Home is a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. Solar related energy management information is managed and made available by NRG Residential Solar Solutions LLC, d/b/a as NRG Home Solar, also a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc.
*Terms and conditions apply. Certain equipment, internet access and subscription required. For energy supply and home automation terms and conditions, visit https://www.nrghomepower.com/legal/terms-of-use/. NRG Home’s Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor Registration Number is PA128163. NRG Home is an electricity supplier licensed to do business in several states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey (PA license number A-2010-2192350 and NJ license number ESL-0093). NRG Home is also a natural gas supplier licensed to do business in Pennsylvania (natural gas license number A-2015-2478293).
NRG Home Solar is a trade name for NRG Residential Solar Solutions LLC. For NRG Home Solar terms and conditions visit: https://www.nrghomesolar.com/privacy-policy/. NRG Home Solar license information: NJ:13vh06478300, MA: 170279, NYC: 2013158-DCA, Yonkers, NY: 6251, Nassau CTY, NY: H2409720000, Suffolk CTY, NY: 53453-H, Westchester CTY, NY: Wc24767h12, Rockland CTY, NY: H11586400000. Massachusetts MA Electrician License #11604.
NRG is a service mark of NRG Energy, Inc. © 2016 NRG Energy, Inc. All rights reserved. Google Play and Android are trademarks of Google Inc.
New features
• A new Login Information screen, available in the navigation menu of the app, lets you link multiple systems to a single login, set up two factor authentication for additional security, and more.
• An enhanced notifications experience lets you more easily manage your push notifications. Now you can enable, disable, and add new notifications from a single screen
• Create, view, or edit security system and lock user codes through the new Users screen, available in the navigation menu of the app.
App Permissions
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to record audio.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to enter Wi-Fi Multicast mode.
