danvoner
I've picked only "pause charge". You don't want "pause discharge" or "pause both" as that would stop the battery covering the house load. That's the sort of thing someone with a small battery on Agile might do to save the battery for the peak period.
Solar and battery will still cover (as much as it can) house load.
Whether you actually want to do this may depend on you normal daily consumption.
Without the heatpump, we're currently using maybe 6-8kWh. Even on a rubbish day that's pretty much covered by solar.
The times I've got set are a combination of maximising solar export, but also to suit our EV charging requirements.
If you regularly have smart charging slots during the day from Octopus and want your giv batteries to charge, you might not want to use this option.
As I said before, I may switch this off for winter as some bonus slots from Octopus may come in useful.
If we look at this partial trace from yesterday, which was particularly rubbish for solar, we can see the house load is entirely covered by solar and battery apart from a few spikes late on.
The lack of trace below the line is because precisely zero solar has gone to the battery, but equally virtually nothing has come from the grid either.
