Ohme charger short charging me

[Rocinante]

TLDR - Ohme charger doesn't seem to spend the whole cheap tariff period charging, and therefore leaves me short in the morning. Issue only recently started.

Having a little bother with my Ohme charger. It's set to add 50% charge during my cheap period, as thats pretty much as much as it can charge in that period, and it's extremely rare for me to use more than that in a day. It is more frequent that I will use 50% charge though and be looking for it to charge for most of the 5 hours off peak.

However a couple times recently it seems to have only added around 20kWh, (35%ish), which means I'm short of the 80% capacity I was looking for. Which hasn't caused me an issue yet, but definitely has the potential to leave me short.

"dynamic charging" switch is on but it's not been an issue up to very recently, and surely it should still give you the electricity you've asked for ?
Thought I'd ask before fiddling with settings, if anyone has experienced and resolved this.

 

[Jomarkh]

If you have an Ohme why not try Intelligent Octopus Go at 7p for a minimum of 6 hours?

 

[xblackwolf90]

With dynamic charging enabled, what schedule do you get when you plug in? This should show time slots and amount to add.

Alternatively, if your tariff just gives you fixed hours overnight for a reduced rate, it may be easier to turn off dynamic charging and just use a charging schedule instead.

You may also wish to turn off pre conditioning. This shouldn't make any difference, but the MG5 doesn't support this from the Ohme charger so it's worth turning off anything unnecessary to remove any complexities.

 

[smokie]

Not sure which car you have or whether that matters, but all of a sudden I was having real odd stuff going on with OHME when I had the MG app installed (iSmart?) on my phone.

Took quite a time to get to the bottom of it and mine was usually worse than yours - OHME randomly resetting what I'd put in some time after I'd set it causing all kinds of issues - charging in my peak periods, not charging, charging less than it should.

So if you have iSmart just try uninstalling it and see if it improves.