Recent content by stevedee

The are plenty of Hall Effect devices that would possibly be suitable for measuring current drain, some costing less than £5. So we'd need to make some kind of temporary clamp to hold it around the battery +ve cable. Electronics: a small intelligent device (Arduino, Raspberry Pi & so on) with...

Piccadilly Blue (real name: Soul Blue) looks like this... Charging to 100% takes disproportionately longer than charging to (say) 50% as illustrated in the charging curve/chart, which you will find in posts (somewhere) on this forum. When charged to 100%, a car should be driven, not left...

We have the Carmats odourless mats, and ours are ...odourless.

One unexpected joy of my S5, is that I like to stream Radio Caroline from an app called Transistor on my phone over Bluetooth. The unexpected bit is that I can get back into the car days later, & the car system just starts the app & plays Caroline. No idea how it does that. I'm not using...

I made some progress yesterday, extracting some of the data I need from my S5... No joy yet with; Car Status (parked/ready/driving) but this is a nice-to-have, Charge Limit (which needs to be the limit set in car) and Plug status (not sure this is working properly). And yes, my Efficiency...

If you like charts & graphs, you will find some interesting stuff in the Public Charging Infrastructure report for 2025, downloadable from the Electroverse website (STATS page); https://assets.electricjuice.octopus.energy/x/09e0aa80ad/electroverse-charging-infrastructure-insights-december-2025.pdf

I'm just looking for a simple monitor, when at home or on the road. Its looking like I'll run some Python code & WireGuard (VPN) on a RaspberryPi, using this as a server to provide some basic data remotely (simple web page), without the need to log in. Info may include; Charging Active, SoC...

I just got a reply from Octopus regarding linking Electroverse billing. Looks like a tech issue:- I'm sorry, but you're not able to link energy accounts as a payment method at the moment - we're working hard on getting that feature back up and running, but don't have a timeline we can promise...

Oh yes, I've just checked that screen & mine is also Soul Blue!

There is a 'reverse engineered' project on Github to access data using the MG API called: saic-python-client-ng Much of the work and coding examples relate to other MG models, which was a surprise to me when they didn't really work with the S5. So I had to iterate through a collection called...

So, I did say that this analysis was very crude ...and how did you find out that my grandchildren were in a safe-house on the Isle of Lewis, TimothyN? It was difficult to decide on a pence/mile. I could divide 7p/kWhr by 2 or 4 or somewhere in between. There will be times when you may need to...

Wow! What a great idea, I'm on it!

I don't have a problem with that Ian. Two of my hobbies are analysing data and winding people up!

As we get older, I expect my wife and I to drive less. And if we don't get banned, or consider one another too dangerous to continue, I wondered at what point it would no longer make financial sense to carry on buying & driving a car. So this analysis is both very simple & crude, but I thought...

This is our charger with 7.5m cable & no holster... Typical retail cable cost seems to work out about £10/m when looking at charger prices. Re: tethered/untethered, we were advised to get an untethered charger, but I was not convinced. So I'd love to hear arguments for & against. It seems to...