Hi,
I’d like to know if anyone has the same hardware as me and if they have automated the “Car drains the battery first when on the cheap tariff” issue.
I know the best solution is to have the charger feed upstream of the battery input, but it’s too late for that now. So I currently have to set the car to only charge at times I know the cheap tariff will be and this misses out on the non-scheduled cheap tariff times.
I’d ideally like to automate the process so that:
(IF the car is charging (controlled by Octopus)
OR the battery SOC < 100%)
AND the tariff is cheap
THEN stop the battery from discharging.
The opposite action would be simpler:
(IF the car is not charging
AND the battery SOC =100%)
OR the tariff is not cheap
THEN allow the battery to discharge.
I anticipate that the logic will be more complicated than that but has anyone implemented similar logic with the same hardware endpoints?
Thanks
Mike