Scheduled actions not working

miffy

palatable-district

Hi. I'm on Octopus Flux, so want to charge 2am-5am, and export 4pm-7pm. My scheduled rules for that work fine.
However, my other 3 rules do not work.

I need to try to prevent my batteries getting to 100% during the window 9am-3pm because if they do and it's really really sunny, my PV production will get capped because the excess production has nowhere to go if it can't fit in the batteries and I'm at max export rate. So I have set up 3 scheduled rules to try to prevent this. Unfortunately, they don't work. Here is an example of what happened today, taken from the WW action log:

The rule that triggered this says that if the battery is at 98% or above, force export between 1pm and 3pm down to 94%.
My batteries were at 100% at 1pm so triggered the rule. But despite the WW log, nothing happened on my system.
Here is an excerpt from the relevant time frame of the My Inverter log:

It was exporting yes, but not force exporting from the battery.

What is going on please?

admin

miffy The eco-reset for your export for "TimeFrom":"10:00","TimeTo":"12:59" kicked in at 12:56 and your export for 13:00-13:19 had been set a minute earlier at 12:55, so got overwritten, basically.

miffy

admin Okay, so how long a pause is required between schedule changes? Is ten minutes adequate?
As a new user it's not apparent that a time lag is needed. Perhaps it would be helpful to include it on the scheduler page. Are there any other gotchas I need to know about?

Gazzagreen

Personally, I think the 10 minutes you suggested between charge cycles sounds like a good idea. It gives the WW system time to adjust and write instructions to your inverter before the next instruction comes along. If they overlap or are too close to each other then as you have discovered, they don't action.

miffy

Gazzagreen Thanks Gazza. I changed my schedule to ensure at least a ten minute gap between sessions, and it's operated successfully today.

I think they should add a comment to the scheduler page that tells people to ensure there's a ten minute gap, then they'd get a lot fewer problems reported.