Colour code the Agile Octopus Slots

adam

Well done for the very helpful Agile Octopus Slot feature which is great for tailoring the charging schedules. It is so much better than trying to do it in the GivEnergy web app.

How about colour coding the prices to make it even clearer? Perhaps blue for negative prices, green 0 to 9.99p, yellow 10 to 19.99p, orange 20 to 29.99p, red 30 to 39.99p and purple for 40p+ Having colour would make it even quicker and easier to see and make adjustments.

admin

adam Yeah good shout, we'll have a look at that. Could be an easy win. And give a good visual guide.

Capt_Rich

Love this idea

admin

Initial thoughts on something like this?

Looks a bit too messy. We'll try some different options.

admin

This is probably a neater alternative.

Gazzagreen

Love this!

kerregan

Not sure if I see the point of this.

The key issue for me is whether the pricing is rising or falling. So for example if the price now is 13p and in the next slot is 18p, I want to charge my battery. If the price in the next slot is 13p or lower, I don’t want to charge.

The other factor is whether the import price is lower than the export price, which for me is currently 15p.

Arbitrary colour coding doesn’t help either of these.

KristianS

This follows a format of another site I know 😉 and sort of makes sense. For me, I think a better use of this colour coding is the 'source' of the selection - either Automatic, Manual, Price - personally speaking

admin

KristianS

This follows a format of another site I know

Maybe....? 😜

...is the 'source' of the selection - either Automatic, Manual, Price - personally speaking

Yeah, though due to the fact we condense and persist the individual slots into blocks (when adjacent) and display them back, we basically can't easily store that info without a fair chunk of rework. Unsure whether the juice is worth the squeeze here.

The price band colours on the other hand, is available at display time per slot and so easily done.

admin

Available in Release 566 now. Can be toggled off in Advanced settings.

Shockwave

admin Nice, but could the blue be a bit darker please?

MikeC

Colours showing on pc but nothing on android

admin

MikeC Could be stylesheet caching perhaps. We'll take a look.

Yeah looks like it was - didn't show up initially on iOS either. All good now.

Capt_Rich

Looks great

MikeC

Afraid it still isn't working on Android

Gazzagreen

MikeC Works on my android mobile, using Chrome....

kerregan

I still don’t see the point of this and it is a bit overwhelming to look at. But if it is to stay, could the legend be put close to the schedules please?

kerregan

kerregan But I can toggle it off - thanks for that.

Gazzagreen

I like :)

KristianS

Works on my Android mobile - using Microsoft Edge browser.
I like the colour coding as per previous comments. Especially when there are lots of slots of a given 'price' it can take a minute or two to work out quickly the best ones to pick [cheapest?] under the old schema.
I take your point @admin about the effort to coordinate the different 'sources' of the suggested slot and yes, this does make it easier to make informed decisions about which charge slots I would like. I still like the idea of being able to select pause slots with equal ease without having the effort to create or update charge windows to get my battery to pause on good prices but charge on the best prices - but if that is not possible then so be it

admin

KristianS It’s not impossible. Almost nothing is impossible. 😜

Just needs to be weighed up against how the majority use it really.