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J1m I have an planned export schedule running each evening. If I plug my EV in, creating charging windows during the evening, how does that interact with the running export schedule - does the export stop temporary or fully, or does the export stop the EV charge happening? Thanks in advance!

In my experience, smart charging will supersede any export schedules you have set, if they overlap.

Here's one of mine, where the smart charge started at 23:00 (even though the EV didn't actually start charging until 23:29), but you can see it cut short the discharge, which was timed to finish at 23:25

Also, make sure you have this set, otherwise it will dump your battery in to the EV, which I assume you don't want.

      MrMessy Thank you for that. That would be great if it works that way in stopping the export schedule. I've also checked its Active thanks!!

      ...and I've was about to thank you anyway for your detailed guide on 21st September, which @JayC kindly pointed me to. I hadn't thought of using short sequential export windows in that way and I've now set mine up..Cheers!!

        admin So the charging slots don't appear on that page? Thanks for clarifying..

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            J1m Hmm.... I am sure charging slots do show on that page and that I have seen them previously there.
            Mine aren't detailed tonight but I think that is because I have not been fortunate enough to have been allocated slots outside of the 23:30-05:30 standard band (despite plugging and unplugging:-) ).

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                J1m Yes, tonight's home battery charge is showing.

                They do appear under Planned Intelligent charge slots. Unless you mean something else?

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                      admin That's the problem though, only the home battery charge is showing in that section?

                        @J1m These are my screenshots from WW and IOG for tonight. The EV and the AIO will both charge.

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                          JayC Yes mine's the same except the Octopus window shows charging between 11p.m and 11a.m tomorrow...

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                              J1m What is you 'Ready by' time set to? (as is you look to have 7p electricity for 12 hours straight... with virtually zero possibility of WW being wrong as they are taking the read from Octo's API).

                                  JayC It is set for 11a.m so the Octopus slots do match...

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                                      J1m My opinion is that you are all good. Because there are no gaps (consecutive) the slot is showing as just one in WW: another efficiency: why Octo lists them as many who knows.

                                          JayC Thanks for that, I shall see if my home battery starts charging at 23:00, if it does then I'm good!

                                              J1m Yep, should do, we condense the slots altogether if they're adjacent. Your EV will charge as per Octopus instructions, and we've picked up your EV slots, ready to instruct your battery for the full slot as well.

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                                                  5 days later

                                                  @admin FYI

                                                  Everyone else been short changed?

                                                  I mean, technically I haven't been short changed as the batteries still charged for 6 hours but, Octopus and GE inverters run local time, so I drew power from the batteries 04:30-05:30, when it should have still been pulling from the grid at cheap rate.

                                                  Perhaps we can get this right for spring, when the clocks go the other way?😉😅

                                                  And what's more, I've just spotted, at 11pm, that the charge times were still on BST, so I've been done at both ends of the day...

                                                  ...... and it gets better. Due to me not spotting the incorrect charging times until after the event had started and subsequently changing back to 23:30-05:30, WW had already stored the end instruction ready for deployment, so for a 2nd night at 04:30 charging was stopped.

                                                  Whilst this has not "cost" me huge sums of money (2hrs export and 1/2hr peak import), it's somewhat frustrating for a system that otherwise works really well.

                                                    MrMessy Yeah IOG seems off, we'll get this sorted.

                                                    Looks like this is only for the default IOG slot, not ad-hoc charge slots, would you agree @MrMessy ?

                                                    Fix being rolled out now.