Octopus saving sessions coming 1st Nov

[Tinbum]

I ended up doing a bit of tweaking to my auto saving session setup yesterday as it was the first time I got to test it live.

It's got quite complex now.
It checks every half hour to see if their is the possibility of a saving session as issued at about 10am. It then checks for the confirmation in the afternoon that their will be a saving session, then a bit later to see which companies have had bids accepted and informs me via Alexa of if I need to opt in.

When the time comes, after I've confirmed to opting in, it then turns things on and off when required.

[nowty]

Tinbum, how much harder is it to do an auto "opt in", surely thats the only thing left.

[Tinbum]

Tinbum, how much harder is it to do an auto "opt in", surely thats the only thing left.

Not sure on that one, don't know if that's possible, still learning. Edit- I'll have to see where the button links to next time.

It took me ages yesterday to find a way of getting the dates out of the CSV files for checking who was opted in. I could get the company names fine but it only ever seemed to use the last date in the file!! SWMBO was getting fed up of all the Alexa announcements as I was adjusting things!!

[nowty]

Heads Up !,

From: Power System Manager - National Grid Electricity Control Centre NATIONAL GRID NOTIFICATION - DEMAND FLEXIBILTY SERVICE. DFS Tests are scheduled for tomorrow Thursday 16/02/2023 This is an indication that DFS Service Requirements might be published today at 14:30 for Providers being tested. Tests will be System Tagged. For full details see the ESO Data Portal at https://data.nationalgrideso.com/dfs/de ... test-event. Notification Issued at 10:21 hours on 15/02/2023. Issued by Peter Chandler National Grid Electricity National Control Centre.

I wonder if its going to be an early one this time,

[Fintray]

Not too early I hope as we have a scheduled power interruption tomorrow morning!

[Tinbum]

It's on. 17.00 to 18.00

[nowty]

It's on. 17.00 to 18.00

Not so sure,

"A DFS Service Requirement has been published for tomorrow. This is for an onboarding test for a subset of providers. Please view the service requirement file in this dataset for details of the required volumes and times. This will be System Tagged."

[Tinbum]

It's on. 17.00 to 18.00

Not so sure,

"A DFS Service Requirement has been published for tomorrow. This is for an onboarding test for a subset of providers. Please view the service requirement file in this dataset for details of the required volumes and times. This will be System Tagged."

Damm- will have to put a search term like "subset" in my flow to filter.

Edit Octopus not in their, it's BG, EquiwattLimited,SoloEnergyLimited and Utilita.

[MrPablo]

Saving session results are in, extra column added to show kWh saved as well.

[nowty]

Oops, whilst checking, I accidently (seriously) pressed the redeem button on my phone, its turned into fabulous February.

Virtual Battery (VB) is now over 100% SOC which is enough to run Nowty Towers for at least a year.