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Why does the home still consume from grid when there’s enough charge in the battery? This is while we are on holiday so barely any consumption other than fridge, WiFi, alarm etc.

Is this much “normal”?

Several other posts in this section all having the same issue

Thank-you for your answer, but I have scrolled through many pages and not found a match for my question. I also tried the search but my search resulted in hundreds of pages of unrelated posts. Are you aware of any recent similar posts you could point me in the right direction of please? Appreciate it must be annoying seeing newbies asking the same questions over and over.

In fairness, you would have to catch up on 2-3 weeks worth of posts.

The short of it, is Fox have introduced FoxCloud2.0 App version 2.2.x and it has been chaotic since. Schedules being ignored, or being created out of thin air, and all manor of equally fun things.


Now on the face of your Octopus graph, that is actually quite good in isolation, that represents a house base load of under 100 Watts. Given that you have solar/battery, then it should have been less than 0.5kWh for the 24hrs (it can vary, but lower than posted)

I would recommend you login to the v2 Desktop site here https://www.foxesscloud.com/v2/login
And check the Quick Settings top right in Purple, check each section carefully.
There are 5 sections there, if you can write down what you see, or take pictures more help can be given.

MaterialBarracuda48 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 4:34 pm I would recommend you login to the v2 Desktop site here https://www.foxesscloud.com/v2/login
And check the Quick Settings top right in Purple, check each section carefully.
There are 5 sections there, if you can write down what you see, or take pictures more help can be given.

Alternatively if you can run a python script I wrote a simple one to overwrite all schedules in 1 API call and the API doesn't seem to be doing funny things like the app.

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evilbunny wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 10:27 pm Alternatively if you can run a python script I wrote a simple one to overwrite all schedules in 1 API call and the API doesn't seem to be doing funny things like the app.

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Agreed, more than one way to skin this cat so to speak.