Agile and predictive charging: newbie question alert

James_Hood

Hi, I have just signed up and have set up two Agile charging slots. What I'd like is for the overnight charge to operate only when insufficient solar charging is forecast for the next day. Is this what will happen, or do the charging slots I have set up charge regardless of the solar forecast?

admin

James_Hood The agile charge window settings currently do not take into account solar forecast.

This is on the list though.

James_Hood

Thanks. So if I want to take advantage of solar prediction over the sunnier months it looks like it might be better to delete the Agile slots and go for generic ones for the time being?

admin

James_Hood Possibly, or equally, you could configure several 'summer' Agile charge windows with different configurations as to SOC requirements and target SOC to reach and number of slots.

We will be introducing names for Agile charge windows soon.

You could have a 'Summer - Sunny', 'Summer - So, so' and 'Summer - Cloudy' for instance, with different configurations but same agile charge window times. You just need to toggle one off and another one on, based on eyeballing tomorrow's forecast.

James_Hood

admin Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Eyeballing tomorrow's forecast and fiddling with settings, however simple, is what I want to avoid. I will watch out for the Agile feature and in the meantime stick to the Smart schedules.

admin

James_Hood Yeah, that's absolutely fair enough. We have both the Intelligent Octopus integration to work on next and solar prediction integration for Agile.

Gazzagreen

What can you tell us about the Intelligent Octopus your working on. Will this solve the incompatible Car or Charger for Intelligent Go for instance?

admin

Gazzagreen The initial work is around getting the intelligent dispatch slots from Octopus, for people with a compatible charger.

We will then allow users with PV & battery to specify charge parameters inline with those dynamic slots assigned by Octopus, ie. users can hold, charge to a certain percentage etc. preventing draining the PV/home battery into the car, and making sure users have the option to top the home battery up at the same time (if needed) during these dynamic cheap slots.