Octoplus Automations - Making the most of the free energy

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been attempting to make use of the Octopus Energy free energy sessions with Octoplus, by turning everything I can automate to turn on, on!

But I came across a small issue, if certain devices are not available - they stop my automation as per this image from the traces:

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The actions part of my code used to be:
actions:

 - device_id: 12345
    domain: number
    entity_id: 23456
    type: set_value
    metadata:
      secondary: false
    value: 100
  - device_id: 12345
    domain: select
    entity_id: 34567
    type: select_first
  - device_id: 12345
    domain: select
    entity_id: 45678
    type: select_option
    option: Time-Based Control
  - device_id: 09876
    domain: select
    entity_id: 98765
    type: select_option
    option: Fast
    enabled: true
  - action: myenergi.myenergi_eddi_boost
    metadata: {}
    data:
      target: Heater 1
      time: 120
    target:
      device_id: 24680
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 13579
    entity_id: 33445
    domain: switch
  - action: notify.mobile_app_phone
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: Free energy session start detected
      title: Headsup!
  - action: tts.speak
    metadata: {}
    data:
      cache: true
      media_player_entity_id: media_player.nest_mini_2
      message: Free energy session started, use what you can
    target:
      entity_id: tts.google_translate_en_com
mode: single

I’ve now changed it to run in parallel, which may not be the best way, but was at least the only way I could think of:

actions:
  - parallel:
      - device_id: 12345
        domain: number
        entity_id: 23456
        type: set_value
        metadata:
          secondary: false
        value: 100
      - device_id: 12345
        domain: select
        entity_id: 34567
        type: select_first
      - device_id: 12345
        domain: select
        entity_id: 45678
        type: select_option
        option: Time-Based Control
      - device_id: 09876
        domain: select
        entity_id: 98765
        type: select_option
        option: Fast
        enabled: true
      - action: myenergi.myenergi_eddi_boost
        metadata: {}
        data:
          target: Heater 1
          time: 60
        target:
          device_id: 24680
      - type: turn_on
        device_id: 13579
        entity_id: 33445
        domain: switch
      - action: notify.mobile_app_phone
        metadata: {}
        data:
          message: Free energy session start detected
          title: Headsup!
      - action: tts.speak
        metadata: {}
        data:
          cache: true
          media_player_entity_id: media_player.nest_mini_2
          message: Free energy session started, use what you can
        target:
          entity_id: tts.google_translate_en_com
mode: single

Questions are - how are other people automating these?
How would you include error messages, if items didn’t run do to service / device issues?

I’m currently automating:
Powerwall (Tesla Powerwall 2) - forcing charge to 100%
Car Charging - Fast charge
Immersion Heater - Boosting
Electric Radiator - Turning on
Sending a notification to my phone
Playing a notification on my nest mini

Curious to see how anyone else is using this!