But I assume that with Agile, Ohme operates independently, based on the published prices - you automatically get that price whether Octopus know you charged or not.
But the point is that it WON'T be 40p peak! As long as you aren't explicitly requesting to charge immediately, you'll always be billed at the cheap rate for any half-hour slot where the car is charging.
I’m just to chicken… 🤣
Following your advice decided to pull up my big boy pants and it works! 👍
Hmm... does mean that simply plugging in your car at the same time as you turn on your oven for your evening meal, you get all that energy at cheap rate ?
No, just talking about the ohme plug-in sequence, cheers
Yes, I got that. I thought you meant that when you first plugged in the car, it started charging, and that was cheap rate because it was part of the IO sequence.
If it keeps charging, and you can see the graph on the dashboard going up, then it is going to be cheap rate for the full half-hour slot at least.
Yeah sorry, I've put a note on the phone of when I plug in so there is a record to check against the next bill. Now I have the confidence to plug in I need to setup some smart gear to trigger other devices when random cheap slots come along...
Are you planning to automate that with a CT clamp around the Ohme feed-in cable?
You can do that with Agile and ITTT, eg set your smartplugs to come on anytime the price drops below a threshold you set, but for some reason you can't do that with IO (so I hear).
That would seem to be the easiest way. Or the driveway cam could pick up on the dashboard charging lights flashing and trigger x 🤣
That would be because, unlike Agile, there is no public API for it - as far as I know/understand, at least.
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Welcome to the forum and to Intelligent Octopus
I agree with that, actually. I keep suggesting them to just disable those options for IO, since one is not supposed to use them anyway!
In that scenario, Ohme said I'd be charged off peak whereas Octopus said the opposite, lol.
Probably another occurrence of being unlucky with the customer care lottery?
