MG4, Zappi and Octopus Intelligent Go

[Tig170]

Yes, that's my issue too, or part of it. Because they're always changing the slots I can't know when the car is going to charge, so it drains the home battery. Also, it's inconvenient to have all these slots popping up here there and everywhere with no warning when you have your inverter programmed on the basis that that's not going to happen.

I agree its a complete pain, also see this



....before moving the CT clamp (as luckily the EV charger was on its own consumer unit), I set the MG4 to only charge between 11:32pm & 05:28am - that way I didn't get any instant slots from Octopus as soon as I plugged it in to the EV charger.

 

[LenEV2016]

I agree its a complete pain, also see this



....before moving the CT clamp (as luckily the EV charger was on its own consumer unit), I set the MG4 to only charge between 11:32pm & 05:28am - that way I didn't get any instant slots from Octopus as soon as I plugged it in to the EV charger.

Im a bit late to this chat but is this a zappi specific issue (plus obviously battery+ solar) has anybody with an ohme experienced the same issue

 

[Tig170]

Im a bit late to this chat but is this a zappi specific issue (plus obviously battery+ solar) has anybody with an ohme experienced the same issue

Yes mine is an ohme which had the same problem, until I moved the CT clamp from the solar / battery (MG4, Zappi and Octopus Intelligent Go) - now resolved.

 

[Rolfe]

I've watched all that, but not done anything about it. (When my electrician arrived last week to do some more work on the system he was eyeing it up and saying that the Zappi was saying something about a CT clamp not being in the right place, but I was able to put my hand on my heart and declare that I'd only thought about it, not done it. The error cleared on its own.)

Many people say it's as simple as moving a CT clamp, but all the YouTube videos including that one talk about getting an electrician to add another consumer unit and that sort of thing. Nobody shows "just move that clamp and it's done."

It's not just about the battery being drained in the charging slots anyway, it's other inverter settings. It's just much more convenient to know that the car isn't going to charge outwith the 7p window, and forget about it all.

 

[GaryMG4]

We've just squeaked home with 3% in the Niro, so I asked for 99% by 10am. I think the Niro has a little more usable than my MG4. I purposely gave it a 14 hr slot to fit the charge in, but it scheduled from plug in (19:50) to 6am as a single slot. It's a shame you can't register multiple vehicles with IOG but at least they are both around 64kWh.

 

[LenEV2016]

We've just squeaked home with 3% in the Niro, so I asked for 99% by 10am. I think the Niro has a little more usable than my MG4. I purposely gave it a 14 hr slot to fit the charge in, but it scheduled from plug in (19:50) to 6am as a single slot. It's a shame you can't register multiple vehicles with IOG but at least they are both around 64kWh.

Can you not add separate vehicle to your charger, not sure what you have but my ohme app has the MG and my Born registered on it and I flick between the two as needed.

 

[GaryMG4]

Can you not add separate vehicle to your charger, not sure what you have but my ohme app has the MG and my Born registered on it and I flick between the two as needed.

I think it's a known issue with IOG and smart charge. It doesn't really cause an issue as both batteries are similar size and I treat them similarly

 

[mikgle]

To be fair, it should work both ways.. if the smart schedule says its starting at 10pm, as it did for me tonight, then not start for whatever reason is not good. So it then said 10.30pm and didn't, then again 11pm and it didn't. Its still not started. Come on octopus play fair, you can't accuse people of gaming the system and then they game the system.. its against my terms and conditions!!