Octopus R&D schedule and eco-mode problem

General Home Automation
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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this and could help.

I’ve been using the Octopus R&D schedule feature to control my Givenergy system. I’ve got 3 specific charge periods and 1 discharge period set during a 24hr cycle to match the cheap energy rates I have on my tarrif.

This was working perfectly until the 28th March.

Looking at the logs for my inverter, I can see that on the 27th Mar (and all days pervious) Eco-mode was automatically re-enabled after every charge or discharge period.
From the 28th March onwards these commands no longer seem to be being sent meaning that my battery charges to 100% and then sits idle as it’s not in Eco-mode.

I’ve emailed Octopus R&D to ask them this question as well, but just wondered if anyone here had any advice?

Thanks!

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when I was looking for inverter automation a number of people were using Octopus R&D, but even then 18 months ago there were reports about it not being very reliable so I went down the Home Assistant route

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I used Octopus R&D for a while before I discovered predbat.

It usually worked but sometimes missed slots (I was trying to get R&D) to choose the lowest Agile slots for charging). So it wasn’t the most reliable.

I haven’t used it now for about 15 months.

Rob