I revised settings as per above suggestion. However whilst battery is fully charged overnight at the cheap rate it is now again not being used despite morning kettle, lights etc on
The app suggests it is discharging to grid and smart meter is showing electricity being used from grid.
Octopus smart meter was installed in October 2024. Solar panel and battery installed June 2023.
Sorry for what are basic query but I am confused!
Borisburgh update - now some sunshine and this going straight to home. 
09:40 Further update (Sorry!) - tumble dryer put on and 2.09 kWh being exported to grid, 0.07 from solar, 0 from battery. - previously ((old meter) battery would be used at this point.
10:00 used grid first to force a discharge from battery - now doing so.
It seems that this is not therefore a default for my inverter - is there a way of amending this?
Borisburgh I wonder if your CT clamp has been installed the correct way. Without (hardly) any solar, you should not see 'export to grid' when you're putting the dishwasher on.
Might be worth asking in the general Growatt FB group too: https://www.facebook.com/groups/723997255660985/
Something doesn't sound right.
I think my update may have passed your reply in the ether 
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10:00 used grid first to force a discharge from battery - now doing so.
It seems that this is not therefore a default for my inverter - is there a way of amending this?
Borisburgh Why would you want to Force Discharge? Default is as it said in the Shine app, "Load First". As from your own screengrab:
Your battery should discharge based on house load automatically. Without requiring you to use a Forced Discharge schedule.
So I would disable the Forced Discharge schedule, and your battery should be used to service the house load.
Note that there is a 5 min interval before the app/data refreshes, and that you are looking at a snapshot in time.
Yes that seems to be the problem- the battery only appears to discharge to the house 
when I force it to do so.
Borisburgh Well, it would also flow grid side if your house load was less than Solar yield plus Battery max discharge (3kW).
But main point is, that's not the mode you want for 'normal' self sufficient operation, you want to leave it in "Load first" by disabling your forced discharge schedule.
Even though that seems to be the only way of forcing the battery to be used?
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Thanks for your responses and patience .
Ok I have reverted to on grid mode, load first. The washing machine is now on. There is no load power going to the house and there are 6kw exporting to grid.
This does not seem right ? (It was not how it worked before the smart meter installation in October) meter
Borisburgh Have you got other inverters on this system?
Post in the Growatt FB group I linked, because this does not look right. I reckon some CT clips have been incorrectly installed after the smartmeter installation, which is why your values look off, and why the inverter/battery doesn't seem to recognise your house load.
My installer colleague:"The DNO / smart meter installer has likely installed a new isolation switch, they have probably removed the CT and it’s either installed at the wrong point or pointing wrong direction"
