frb123
Established Member
I'm finding Octopus Intelligent Go great, particularly whilst my solar is out of action. A couple of observations:
It seems you can (entirely legitimately) go beyond the generally recognised 6 hour window, if you need more juice. Eg. By "requesting" 100% charge at 7.30pm, the schedule generated will (in my case) be pretty much all night, way beyond the 2330-0530 perameters. I have checked this with Octopus and they said it's fine, basically whatever is scheduled is 7.5p end of story. So it's quite open to "abuse" if you want to call it that (and by using evening electricity, is less eco than it intends?). I find it odd this isn't mentioned anywhere as it's very predictable that people will use it this way?
I have found it a bit glitchy with it not connecting to my charger on some occasions. Possibly WiFi/zappi glitch I think. Car itself has handled it with 100% success.
Also totally randomly last night car charged to 88% despite being set to 80% limit (and yes it was set correctly in the both the app and car, I checked both!) Weird. Maybe it's the cold
It seems you can (entirely legitimately) go beyond the generally recognised 6 hour window, if you need more juice. Eg. By "requesting" 100% charge at 7.30pm, the schedule generated will (in my case) be pretty much all night, way beyond the 2330-0530 perameters. I have checked this with Octopus and they said it's fine, basically whatever is scheduled is 7.5p end of story. So it's quite open to "abuse" if you want to call it that (and by using evening electricity, is less eco than it intends?). I find it odd this isn't mentioned anywhere as it's very predictable that people will use it this way?
I have found it a bit glitchy with it not connecting to my charger on some occasions. Possibly WiFi/zappi glitch I think. Car itself has handled it with 100% success.
Also totally randomly last night car charged to 88% despite being set to 80% limit (and yes it was set correctly in the both the app and car, I checked both!) Weird. Maybe it's the cold