Octopus agile - Any way to stop it using up the battery straight away?
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2024 5:47 pm
I'm experimenting with the Agile automation in Foxess cloud. My main goal is to ensure that the battery is charged at the start of the peak period, and to do so as cheaply as possible. I also have solar - that'll do the job on sunny days, but now we're getting into winter we're getting more and more days where the battery isn't getting above 20-30% without some charging from grid (particularly as we have a heat pump - so if the sun's in, then it's also probably colder and we're using more energy to heat the house!)
From some initial playing around, it seems that the Agile work model is not usable together with setting time periods for the battery (to stop it using the power for the house during that time), and the result of this tends to be that the battery will charge in the early morning, and then get used up over the day so I still don't have enough battery left at 4pm to see us over the peak.
Is there any way to set this up for "charge when it's cheap, hold on to the charge until it's expensive, and only then use the energy in the battery to power the house"? Probably the answer is that I should wire up the modbus control and go the homeassistant route, but I was hoping to be able to do this in an "off the shelf" way.
From some initial playing around, it seems that the Agile work model is not usable together with setting time periods for the battery (to stop it using the power for the house during that time), and the result of this tends to be that the battery will charge in the early morning, and then get used up over the day so I still don't have enough battery left at 4pm to see us over the peak.
Is there any way to set this up for "charge when it's cheap, hold on to the charge until it's expensive, and only then use the energy in the battery to power the house"? Probably the answer is that I should wire up the modbus control and go the homeassistant route, but I was hoping to be able to do this in an "off the shelf" way.