Today in particular has reminded me of what would be a helpful improvement to the Agile page. I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before but in a quick scan of previous posts I can't find it. Would it be possible to toggle Agile slots from charge, hold, discharge or just normal operation? Today I have had to create numerous discharge schedules in between charging slots to get as much cheap energy throughout the day before dumping it back in the grid. I've had 12 charge slots and 12 discharge slots. I would have liked to also have just held a couple of slots but really couldn't be bothered with resetting the Agile window just for that hour of hold.

Did this get looked at at all? Is this on the list of potential updates?

@"Kevin"#p7788 We will start some experimenting with this, thanks for the nudge.

I was about to make a similar request. When there is a long period of pricing that's well under the fixed 15p export rate, I would love to be able to select (or even better have WW propose) a "harvesting" mode that alternates between import and export for optimum lengths until there's only enough time left to charge back to the target SOC.

@"webmink"#p7854 This would be a good enhancement. I am doing this manually by pre-selecting all slots below 13p then deselecting the most expensive ones (even though below 13p) adding them as exports in the schedule. It takes me about 10 minutes to go through them then verify them (the red arrows showing the exports are really helpful). Starting with no charge (0) I count the slots to add up to 6 by the end (charge = +1, export = -1) and never more than 6 in the middle (7 is a full charge for my batteries). This means I import the maximum at the lowest cost. Finally I set my immersion heater on for the lowest 6 slots to heat my hot water too. In the schedule below I harvested about £5 during the 24 hours (exported 31 kWh some of which was solar) for an import cost of 80p for 32 kWh. A net gain of £4.20 - not bad for 10 minutes work. [URL=https://imgapi.wonderwatt.com/i/LKuWS0J.png][IMG]https://imgapi.wonderwatt.com/i/LKuWS0J.png[/IMG][/URL] 13p = 16.5p x 80%. 16.5p is my export rate and I assume 20% is lost through the batteries.

Having to use Schedules for export and the Agile Scheduler for charging is a bit complicated and trips me up from time to time. The Schedules and Agile can also clash if the windows overlap, with unexpected results. Being able to do charge, export, hold, etc. on a slot by slot basis all from the one Agile scheduler would be great.

@"johalareewi"#p7858 Yep, this is the next biggish change we will roll out. Ability to set export slots from the Agile screen, clearly without any conditional logic and just an assumed 100% discharge/dump.

UI pretty much finalised for this change, we will get the scheduling aspect sorted next week hopefully and then will open it up initially to 2 or 3 users, so shout with your WattID if you're game, cheers! And enjoy the sunshine!

@"admin"#p7922 I'm game: elaborate-routine

@"WindyMiller"#p7923 you got dibs!

Greater functionality of the Agile page.

admin

MikeC We'll take a look.

admin

WindyMiller I think we agreed explicit Agile export should trump charge (even if it satisfies the 'always charge below' criterion, yes? We'll check this.

MikeC

admin
I didn't have an export set up but it still stopped charging at 1.30 and then started again.

WindyMiller

admin What ever runs at midnight doesn't seem to check the upcoming export schedule and simply plans a charge right through. Once in the scheduler you have both charge and export instructions going to the inverter for the same slot which is never right (at 1.30am). So it is the logic running at midnight looking at how long to set the charge window for that is in error.

johalareewi

I did a test over midnight charge too. From 23:30 to 00:30.
The WW log says it split the charge block into 2 parts and the GE logs show this too.
But it worked this time.

johalareewi

Another nice work out tonight coming up...

amackayj

johalareewi
Great having a big battery that charges and discharges at 6kw

johalareewi

johalareewi Another nice work out tonight coming up...

Worked perfectly. AC Charge over the midnight boundary worked too.

johalareewi

Having had a few days of Agile plunge pricing, the enhanced Agile scheduler has worked brilliantly.
I was able to set up a days worth of charge and export slots in advance with ease and, thanks to the new 30 minute re-evaluation feature, I could swap charge and export slots as required as the day progressed. OK, I found that export slots didn't do the re-evaluation but maybe one day?

This was impossible to do with the old method of separate export schedules and contiguous Agile charge blocks. A big thanks to the team for this enhancement.

WindyMiller

I think I may have spotted another anomaly. The last 2 days my charge schedule setup has included an export for 0.00-0.30. Each day I set them up then checked later in the evening and noticed they were cleared (not charge or discharge). There is some process running that clears down just this 30 minute slot if it has been set to discharge. Set it again and all worked fine.

PS No agile windows active and price below is set to 0p. The slot in question was 0.75p today.
PPS I'm exporting on such a cheap slot as all the slots around it are even cheaper and my battery limits how much I can charge in one go (5 contiguous slots usually).

admin

WindyMiller What's your WattID again pls?

admin

WindyMiller Tricky to reproduce. One all prices are available, no process is running to clear anything down.

This is intermittent? Or was a one-off?

WindyMiller

admin elaborate-routine

Tonight also has an export currently set from 0am to 0.30am but the logs may be obscured by the hour change.

WindyMiller

admin Intermittent yes as it has happened on two nights yet not last night and all the same conditions. Just means I lose 30 minutes of export (about 20p).

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