I have HA set to detect when my Ev is charging via IOG, and to force charge my fox batteries whenever I get a charging slot from octopus outside normal off peak hours.
It's worked well for about a year...
However since the recent fox app update, I no longer have the ability to set force charge from the foxmodbus in HA... well actually it does switch to force charge for a minute, but then switches back to self use...
I noticed in the mode scheduler in the new fox app, its got a default of self use if an active mode is not in use... and this appears to be overriding the HA modbus command to force charge.
Has Anyone else got this issue... and perhaps come up with a solution? Only thing I can think of is to disable the mode scheduler and use the old timeslots in the app?
You can’t have an active schedule and control with home assistant, it’s one or the other.
If you want to use home assistant to control your inverter, in the app set the work mode to Self Use, that will disable the schedulers master switch and you will be able to change work mode, force charge, set min soc etc.. in HA
It’s worse in the new app as the scheduler has a default mode that covers the whole 24 hours and it keeps the scheduler master switch enabled which stops local changes.
If you want to use home assistant to control your inverter, in the app set the work mode to Self Use, that will disable the schedulers master switch and you will be able to change work mode, force charge, set min soc etc.. in HA
It’s worse in the new app as the scheduler has a default mode that covers the whole 24 hours and it keeps the scheduler master switch enabled which stops local changes.
It worked fine for an IOG slot I got earlier.
I just see Dave has posted, I don't have any Fox scheduling turned on.
Hope you don't mind me jumping as I just came here to ask similar. I have a new install of a KH7 + EP12. I have HA running on a NUC and all configured nicely with a Modbus connection to the KH7. I have the modbus integration installed and written Pyscripts to integrate my Octopus Agile tariff half hourly rates. I can set up charging of EV and Home Battery based on Agile rates. All good and working nicely. I now want to 'block' the battery from discharging when I am charging the EV. I planned to do this by changing the work mode to Back up in HA via the modbus integration. But as noted above when I change it, either via program or manually, after a few seconds it reverts back to Self Use. I noticed last night when I had the mode scheduler set (via the web interface as the app doesn't work reliably) to Force Charge with zero power, the HA work mode did NOT switch back. However having read Dave's comments in this thread I am now going to have a play ensuring I don't have ANY schedules set.
But could I just confirm that with a KH7 the work mode and other parameters SHOULD control the inverter and they are not just read only values? I ask as the charging parameters such as Max/Min SOC don't seem to have any affect either.
Thanks
PS with all schedules turned off changing work mode in HA does seem to stick so I shall do some further experimenting when there are some cheap Agile slots available.
But could I just confirm that with a KH7 the work mode and other parameters SHOULD control the inverter and they are not just read only values? I ask as the charging parameters such as Max/Min SOC don't seem to have any affect either.
Thanks
PS with all schedules turned off changing work mode in HA does seem to stick so I shall do some further experimenting when there are some cheap Agile slots available.
Mine has been working since December fine, it takes the IOG slots and charges the battery to block discharge (shows as backup in the App)
I was able to turn off any scheduling that was set to achieve this, not sure if the Website/App is behaving now to turn off scheduling completly.
I was able to turn off any scheduling that was set to achieve this, not sure if the Website/App is behaving now to turn off scheduling completly.