Intelligent Octopus Go

[nowty]

Behind the scenes, the scheduling is now completely different.

In the most expensive half hour slot I now see lots of little "mini slots" of energy like 0.13kWh, 1.2kWh, 0.35kWh starting and stopping at per-minute intervals, and the scheduling is a lot more dynamic overall. The couple of charges I've done overnight have changed quite markedly during the night.

I have some Home Assistant screenshots but it's all unformatted yaml. Can post these if you want, otherwise I'll try to format that card for future screen grabs.

I don’t get any of that. I alway set it an impossible target eg give it 8hrs to do a charge that would take 10hrs in order to get guaranteed cheap period.

And then turn the target back down to 10% at 23:30 when the fixed cheapslot starts.

[Yuff]

Behind the scenes, the scheduling is now completely different.

In the most expensive half hour slot I now see lots of little "mini slots" of energy like 0.13kWh, 1.2kWh, 0.35kWh starting and stopping at per-minute intervals, and the scheduling is a lot more dynamic overall. The couple of charges I've done overnight have changed quite markedly during the night.

I have some Home Assistant screenshots but it's all unformatted yaml. Can post these if you want, otherwise I'll try to format that card for future screen grabs.

I don’t get any of that. I alway set it an impossible target eg give it 8hrs to do a charge that would take 10hrs in order to get guaranteed cheap period.

And then turn the target back down to 10% at 23:30 when the fixed cheapslot starts.

I export at 9pm when the heating switches off, so I turn it down at 9pm.
A mixture of export and import overnight until 6am, then cheap slots needed

[Richard77]

Mine is all done through the ohme app....

Plug car in... See what sessions it gives me.

Change time for car to be ready by an earlier time as I always need a full charge to "100%" a lot sooner than it thinks and it usually gives me a full 8 hour slot!