Battery Management with Octopus Smart Tariffs to Avoid 4 - 7 pm

[ChrisS]

@michael.g2.smith

my tariff is Flux and the code I use has to take this into account so I fully charge at cheap rate , export all solar and if the battery is still greater than 80% at 16:00 export down to 20% which is sufficient to run the house until next recharge.

I do something very similar. I always charge to 100% overnight and that currently means I am exporting back to the grid as soon as the sun is up. As cheap import rate is roughly the same as the export rate, then I am effectively crediting my account for the earlier charge. If I have at least 90% in the battery I discharge to 50% and then repeat. The two percentage figures are currently just plucked out of thin air - I expect to refine them as I learn more about home consumption over the evenings and how low I can let the charge go to.
The only think I would point out, is that I use Wonderwatt to do the automation because it takes into account the SOC and calculates the charge rate accordingly rather than charging at maximum rate (which is something I cannot find within the remote control page)

[KeithHarris1]

This is the first time I’ve logged into this, so sorry if I’m jumping in in the wrong place but as it talks about battery charge times I thought I’d ask. How can you set more than one charge time on either phone or web app. I can only see ‘Slot 1’ ?

I hope my screen shot has worked.
Many thanks.