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Intelligent Octopus - bump charging?

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As Harry has said, changing the Zappi to anything other than Stop when smart charging is enabled on IOG will result in Octopus setting it back to ECO+.

When you do a bump charge, IOG tells the Zappi to add a certain amount of kWh, the same as setting it to Boost in the MyEnergi app.

In future, if you need a charge after 5:30am but before 11am, try just setting the charge to add, IOG might just give you a cheap slot (if you already charged overnight, go and unplug and replug the car in to reset the Zappi 'charge added' counters otherwise it wont work). Failing that, I'd just turn off smart charge in the Octopus app and charge the car using the Boost setting in the MyEnergi app as its more reliable to go direct.
 
Boost will work ok, its just if you try to change the charge settings to Fast or ECO, it will set it back to ECO+. You also can't be sure with smart charge turned on that OE decide to add some themselves!