I plugged in my EV around 9pm this evening and Octopus created a schedule from 9.10 pm until 9a.m. tomorrow. WW worked as expected, and started charging my home batteries. I needed to go out in the car at 10:15pm so disconnected it. I checked the GivEnergy app just after 10:30pm to check if my 10:30-11p.m. discharge/export schedule was running but found that the home batteries were still being charged from the grid, and seemed to be overriding my discharge/export schedules. I manually set the GivEnergy app to discharge and this stopped the batteries from charging from the grid.
I'm not sure if I have unplugged my car during a long charging schedule set by Octopus before, so am not sure if this is normal/expected behaviour? Surely if the EV is disconnected any imported electricity would be at peak rate before 23:30? My activity log shows the EV charge schedule set from 9:10p.m to 9am tomorrow, and my discharge/export schedule was set but didn’t stop the home batteries from being charged from the grid.
Update: I've just tried setting the normal 'run' mode back on in the GivEnergy app and the batteries have immediately started charging again from the grid (this at 11:05 p.m.). Obviously the normal overnight charge isn’t due to start until 11:30 p.m. I've set it back to discharge manually and will let the WW normal charge schedule to hopefully kick in at 11.30. I'm assuming of course that the 'forced' home battery charging is at peak rate. If it was at the cheap rate its not so bad :-)
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