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Have a minor issue with last night's charging.....

Smart charging from Octopus 23:00-05:30 and 05:30-06:00

WW picked up the slots and initially set 23:00-06:00, but subsequently overwrote with 23:30-05:30
As it turns out, the EV had finished charging at 05:15 anyway, so didn't cause an issue with battery drain, but it would have, had the Octopus EV charge continued.

Could you have a look at this please?

As a sidenote, is there a reason the charge commands are not sent until after the charge period is scheduled to start?

WW-ID:primary-hotel

    Hello,

    Thank you for letting me join WW. My first EV is being delivered next month. Are you still accepting new participants and is it best to wait to join this project until I swap tariffs to IOG?

    violet-local

    Thank you

      admin Have you fixed this? I got it do the same thing again. This time I plugged the car in the evening before 23.30 and got slots in the night slot plus up to 6.30 in the morning and then 7.00-7.30. I got 23.30-6.30 in WW at 23.32 and then 4.30-6.30 at 4.32 but what happened is that between 5.30 and 6.30 the car was charged by the battery which drained it completely for this hour. Then 7-7.30 worked fine.

          angellevski Thanks for the info, yeah, we have put a fix in for this, it looks like there’s still a scenario where a mapped slot can fall within an already started wider slot that should be ignored.

          Looks like without the redundant 4:30 instruction, this would have worked fine, right?

              admin Just wondered if you'd had a chance to look at the underlapping charge instructions?

              Does this fall under the same issue as @angellevski highlighted and, therefore, is it resolved?

                  MrMessy No they’re different issues. We are adding a bunch of unit tests first to make sure the logic is correct for multiple scenarios.

                  The main reason we start after the slot time, is because we do need to cater for people plugging in, getting an IOG slot mapped and then WW to pick that up, which would by that time typically start in the past, despite us running that routine every minute.

                  We will work out a fix and hopefully get it out this week sometime.

                      admin
                      OK, so back to the under/overlapping instructions.
                      I had a smart charging session last night 23:30-05:30, 05:30-06:30 (nope, I don't know why they spilt it as there was definitely no break according to either the GE inverter or the Zappi).
                      This seemed to be picked up perfectly by WW, as seen here...

                      ... and here .......

                      However, instructions were then sent at 05:30 to switch charging off .......

                      ....... leaving the battery to drain in to the EV, which was still charging until 06:30 .....

                      ..... until I spotted it when I got up.

                      Does that give you any more info to go at?

                          MrMessy Thanks for that, yeah, should give us enough info, will let you know when resolved.

                              admin
                              Thanks! I'll stick to finishing by 05:30 until you're done.👍

                                I'm happy to report that I had a schedule outside of 23.30-05.30 today and it all went great. I got:
                                03.30-04.00
                                04.30-06.00
                                09.30-11.00
                                Got WW slot 23.30-06.00 which got overwritten by 04.30-06.00 (correctly this time). Not sure if it should get a new one for 04.30-06.00 but it worked just fine this time. And then got 09.30-11.00.
                                Thanks a lot for the fix.
                                P.S. I saw that @MrMessy has screenshot from RemoveControlHistory and was wondering if you have Growatt? If so where can I find this? Thanks

                                  angellevski Thanks a lot for the fix.

                                  Great, thanks for reporting back!

                                    admin hi I am having issues as no slots are being picked up and my battery is draining? Any suggestions?

                                        Justtin What's your WattID please? Have you double checked your Octopus API key and Acc Number?

                                          Justtin Looks like you used an incorrect format for your account number. We've fixed this for you.

                                              admin Success!!!
                                              Octopus schedule:
                                              23:00-23:30
                                              23:30-00:00
                                              00:00-06:00

                                              I know it looks like the battery discharged in to the EV a bit near the end but, I haven't taken the Giv batteries over 85% for a while and set 90% last night which it overshot a bit. I think this is down to an SoC jump near the end of the battery charging.