Yes I’m having exactly the same unfortunately. The toggle to turn smart charging off seems to work and it kicks straight in, but the charging allowed toggle doesn’t appear to work. I’ve setup scheduling from the car (and leaving Podpoint on manual) for now.
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I might go down the route of turning Smart Charging Off & On in my integrations instead. I’ll test to see if it works reliably.
So, having checked:
Turning Off Smart Charging is actioned on the Solo 3 within 20s and it begins to charge.
The reverse is also true for ending charging.
All integrations now updated to use this method.
My guess is that the problem lies with the Pod-Point servers being able to reliably switch the Solo 3 on or off based on schedules since the schedules seem to be accurately reflected in the App after HA has updated them based on the state of “Charging Allowed”
There is a ping device for HA.
My Solo 3 is assigned a static IP by the router.
I use that to send an alert.
Looks like you’re right — I set an overnight charge schedule on the PP app last night which started fine but failed to stop and has no record of the schedule I set…
Thank you both for catching the issue here…
I’ve been experiencing exactly the same behaviour, good shout to use the smart charge toggle.
I was going to revert to scheduling through Pod Point but you’ve saved me an extra step of frustration.
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My Solo reliably changes between Smart and Manual charge modes in the PP app based on the integration status, but unfortunately this doesn’t result in the car charging. I have seen the charge mode in Manual with charge status of “Paused”.
It seems to reliably stop in Smart mode but not reliably start in Manual.
So I guess I’ll have to split my automation in 2 to “start” and “stop” automations from 1 “start and stop”.
Edit: Now the kids are in bed and I have some time to monitor properly, there is just anywhere up to 6 minutes delay before the PP switches to Manual and starts charging.
I don’t use the Charging Mode to set the mode to manual. There is a specific smart charge entity - Similar to : switch.psl_123456_smart_charge_mode which I switch to “off” to start a charge and “on” to stop a charge. It takes less than 3 seconds to update the actual Pod-Point. I don’t use the app for any charging schedules or or switching charging on or off.
Hi, thanks for this integration, its great. I have just moved to a new property that has a charger and i have connected to it and all seems fine, except the “total cost” shows lifetime cost, which for me is currently 0 as i didnt start using it yet … is there any way to reset this to 0 either artificially (i guess i could use a helper) or via Api?
You could probably contact Pod Point support and ask them to zero it for you.