Texture Connect

Let customers authorize access to their energy devices, from a dashboard link or inside your application

Texture Connect is the OAuth widget your customers use to authorize access to their energy devices — home batteries, EVs, smart thermostats, and more. Send customers a link from the Texture dashboard, or embed Connect in your application; your customers complete a guided flow that links their device accounts to your Texture workspace. Once connected, Texture begins polling device data automatically.

Connect Flow Screenshot

To embed Texture Connect in your own application with an SDK or the API, see Embed Texture Connect.

  1. In Texture, go to Connect → Connect Link.
  2. Enter a Redirect URL: where customers land after they finish connecting.
  3. Optionally fill in the rest of the form:
    • Manufacturer: limit the link to a single manufacturer
    • First Name, Last Name, Email, and Phone: pre-fill the customer's details
    • Reference ID, Tags, and Client Name: your own identifiers and labels for the connection
  4. Click Create Link, then copy the link and send it to your customer.

To check whether a customer has finished connecting, go to Connect → Session History.

After your customer connects#

  • Their devices are added to their site. Find them in Devices, or from the customer's contact and site pages. Session History links to both.
  • Texture starts collecting data right away. It polls the devices as soon as the customer finishes, then every 15 minutes.
  • Check how each link went in Connect → Session History. A session shows Success when the customer finishes, or Error, Expired, Unsupported, or Duplicate when it doesn't. Open a session to see why and its event timeline.
  • Expired links can't be resent. Create a new link for the customer.

Already have customer credentials?#

If you already have direct access to manufacturer APIs or customer credentials, Texture can ingest those directly — no OAuth flow required. Contact us to discuss direct credential integration.