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admin apologies for the delay in responding. Wanted to make sure I'd tested this properly before coming back.

The slot end time 00/30 works perfectly. I've had numerous goes at this, unplugging just after the half hour and each time the Giv charging has ran to the expected point😀.....

...... as long as the EV is physically unplugged and we get similar to this in the Octopus app, saying unplugged:

I presume at this point the Octopus API despatches a signal and this is what WW is reacting to?

The only fly in the ointment is, when I get an early evening charge slot (IOG is so easy to manipulate, if you know how) and then a bit later reschedule to get morning slots. An ASHP chews through quite a few kWh when the temp hasn't been above 0⁰C for 3 days.🥶
In this 2nd scenario, I'm guessing there's no signal for WW to react to as the EV hasn't been physically disconnected.🤔
Anyway, as this stop/start EV charging is initiated by me, it's easy to update the times in the GE app, so no big deal.

Overall, thumbs up for this fix.👍

Off to see what other bugs I can find.🤣

    I've just (about 3:50p.m Saturday) plugged my EV in, which commenced to charge - as an immediate slot was created by Octopus. However when I checked the Giv app I noticed that charge (3kw+) was being drawn from my home battery as well as the grid. I left it a couple of minutes to see if it would revert to charging the battery as expected (and set in the IOG schedule) but it didn't. I then paused the battery in the Giv app which stopped it discharging then reselected 'play' and the battery then started to charge as expected.

    I had this issue also the last time I plugged my EV in a week ago (same solution) but thought it was a blip but it's now happened again. Any advice please?
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      J1m Your 15:49-05:30 IOG slot was processed at 15:53. It takes us a min to pick up from Octopus and sometimes they actually send mapped slots that started a few mins prior.

      So perhaps it's just the min or two delay where WW hasn't quite processed it yet.

          admin No worries, will try leaving it a bit longer next time. Thanks for the quick response 👍

            admin This is my experience now too [mostly]
            The watching of the drain battery into car scenario is hard to resist to interfere with, but I am learning to be patient knowing that once the dust has settled, any loss of SoC of the battery will be replenished by the upcoming charge cycle from the assigned IOG slot from Octopus - but it is hard....
            I too, like @MrMessy now know how I can play the system a little by using the SoC of the EV and the time expected for my EV to be ready - I am sure Octopus are learning from our interactions ;-) to my advantage thus far.
            I personally cannot wait for V2G technology becoming mainstream and whilst that opens up all sorts of cans for dumps of batteries into each other, hopefully API's will also be developed so that ecosystems will understand what each technology is doing and react accordingly.

              I agree with the comments from @KristianS
              It's taken quite a while, and a certain amount of fine tuning, to have faith that WW will perform and not be tempted to look/panic/interfere but, I think we're pretty much there now, certainly for GE inverters.

              Can I join the beta please. My id is obvious-tip

                PB579 All done for you now, you should see the Intelligent section under the Octopus submenu.

                    admin When I input my account number and API I get this comment saying "an error has occurred. This application may not respond until reloaded"

                    I have reloaded and the issue persists, any ideas?

                        PB579 Likely the authentication failed, would you mind dropping us a line at labs@wonderwatt.com - so we can diagnose the detailed error further please?

                        It looks like your API token is invalid.

                          11 days later

                          Hi @admin,

                          Could you please add me to the IOG beta? My WattID is unlucky-field

                            craig_uk All done for you now, you should see the Intelligent option under the Octopus submenu. Thanks!

                              admin I was wondering whether you'd made any progress on this. The reserve gives me an effective UPS for some 'essential' systems and I need to reset after every WW intervention. The benefits of the WW control easily outweighs the inconvenience of this though. But it would be nice not to have to do it!

                                  tedious-intention Thanks for the nudge. We have put some backend support for this in place already, but it needs more work. We'll keep you in the loop.

                                    Hi, is it possible to be added to the beta? My WW ID is disfigured-proposal

                                    Thanks,

                                    Dave

                                      7 days later

                                      Hi @admin , not been on for a while because, well everything has just been working fine and I've had zero issues, until last night.

                                      WW failed to set IOG (23:30-05:30) charging.
                                      Nothing in the WW activity log, so I checked Giv inverter log and nothing set by WW.
                                      I'd spotted it last night, so I set the times myself.
                                      This morning there are the usual instructions from WW at 05:30 to reset.
                                      I thought at first I must have paused the schedules by mistake, but nope, I've only paused user schedules as intended.

                                      On checking further, it appears my inverter was offline just at the critical moment...

                                      Could you just check the logs at your end and confirm that instructions were set but not received, due to inverter offline, please?

                                      Also, could you remind me why WW sets the times to 00:00 at the end of a charging slot (I can't find the answer quickly scanning back though this and other threads), rather than the IOG default of 23:00 and 05:30?

                                      ID primary-hotel

                                        MrMessy I had an inverter offline error at 1.30am and missed one of the Agile 30 minute slots. I wonder if GE were doing something as inverter offline is now quite rare after changes I made earlier in the year.