Octopus IO

ducabi
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Re: Octopus IO

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Post by ducabi »

I've done some testing during january and based on my bill I can see that there are no cheap slots when the charger is unplugged. E.g. plugged around 8pm and the car starts charging straight away, at 8:40pm I'm unplugging it and the cheap slot ends at 9pm. I did it multiple times so I assume there were longer sessions provided but because i unplugged it then it was "removed".
Things I haven't tested yet:
1) plugging in ohme early but setting the car to not charge by very late to see if the slots are assigned even though it's not charging.
2) I still don't know how exactly scheduling works. If i plug it in at 1pm with a schedule set to 100% by 3pm will it do max charging even if there is no cheap slot?
Yuff
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Re: Octopus IO

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Post by Yuff »

ducabi wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:53 pm I've done some testing during january and based on my bill I can see that there are no cheap slots when the charger is unplugged. E.g. plugged around 8pm and the car starts charging straight away, at 8:40pm I'm unplugging it and the cheap slot ends at 9pm. I did it multiple times so I assume there were longer sessions provided but because i unplugged it then it was "removed".
Things I haven't tested yet:
1) plugging in ohme early but setting the car to not charge by very late to see if the slots are assigned even though it's not charging.
2) I still don't know how exactly scheduling works. If i plug it in at 1pm with a schedule set to 100% by 3pm will it do max charging even if there is no cheap slot?
2) that’s what it seems to do.
I got home today and didn’t want my car charging before 4pm so turned charger to 50% ( I had over 50%) had meant to also turn the 🐙 app to 50% as well, but forgot.
When I went to check about 40 mins later I had a schedule from 3:57pm, so off peak, but wasn’t using any kw anyway :D
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