Ohme home charger?

[paulm]

I have my MG4 on order and I'm trying to decide which charger to buy (and have installed - as per the UK law).

I'm homing in on the Ohme Home Pro but have a few questions.

They say it works best if it can access the vehicle's API and list some of the major manufacturers but not MG. I'm not sure if this is a great disadvantage - does any one have any experience of this?

Are there any chargers out there that can integrate with the MG API?

If I don't get the Ohme, what do you recommend I buy?

Thanks for your help and Happy New Year to all!
Paul

 

[Ayoull]

I have my MG4 on order and I'm trying to decide which charger to buy (and have installed - as per the UK law).

I'm homing in on the Ohme Home Pro but have a few questions.

They say it works best if it can access the vehicle's API and list some of the major manufacturers but not MG. I'm not sure if this is a great disadvantage - does any one have any experience of this?

Are there any chargers out there that can integrate with the MG API?

If I don't get the Ohme, what do you recommend I buy?

Thanks for your help and Happy New Year to all!
Paul

SAIC have been very private about the APIs for all their marques, as such there aren't any cars that integrate with them.

 

[Goldie007]

Keeping an eye on this. looking at the same one and switching to Octopus Intelligent

 

[WXman]

Long time lurker on this forum. I collected MG4 SE standard yesterday and have installed Ohme Pro Home charger. Setting this up with Octopus Intelligent tariff (6hrs off peak at 10p per KWH) had been straight forward. I'm going to try my first ev charge with this tonight...

 

[Deleted member 10041]

I have my MG4 on order and I'm trying to decide which charger to buy (and have installed - as per the UK law).

I'm homing in on the Ohme Home Pro but have a few questions.

They say it works best if it can access the vehicle's API and list some of the major manufacturers but not MG. I'm not sure if this is a great disadvantage - does any one have any experience of this?

Are there any chargers out there that can integrate with the MG API?

If I don't get the Ohme, what do you recommend I buy?

Thanks for your help and Happy New Year to all!
Paul

I have the ohme, don't worry about the car, to use octopus intelligent you just rely fully on the ohme app, it talks to octopus and does all the work in the background.
6 hrs at 10p and the rest at 39p so can't complain this far.

 

[Goldie007]

Are the peak hours rates higher than the price cap and if so does it make it worth while when you use a good chunk of electric because of working from home during the day time

 

[Deleted member 10041]

5p higher peak rate, only you can answer if it would be worthwhile. Also how often would you charge you car?
Say you charged 120kwh a month that's £12 with intelligent.
It's £40.80 with the capped rate of 34p

 

[siteguru]

What really matters for such a discussion are your lifestyle choices ... IF you can schedule your heavy electricity usage for the cheaper hours (washing machine, dishwasher, tumble dryer, EV charging) then a differential tariff can be workable; if you can't then it may not. Ultimately you need to do the sums to see if it'll work out.

 

[PristDean]

I have a Hypervolt charger and I am very pleased with it. The app allows all sort of configurations for charging, scheduled over times of your choice, plug and charge, mix of grid and solar charging, solar charging only etc.
Provides charging history data etc.
Seems reliable and never had an issue in a year and half of owning it.
You can also change the light display on the front....I use 'Kit... Night Rider'.... Boys & toys

 

[Vipar]

I have the Ohme Pro I don’t think about it just plug in set charge to either 80% or 100% and go to bed wake up to what setting I chose. Don’t overthink thing’s just enjoy the car and learn something new everyday

 

[AdamMGEV]

With the ohme charger I read you can't set a start or end schedule you jjst say what percentage battery you want at the end of it.

So if I only get 4 hours free overnight I only want to charge it for that 4 hours... so how would you do that with ohme charger?

 

[siteguru]

Set a schedule in the car/iSMART app?

 

[Goldie007]

From what Octopus say I would be able to change it every 30 days to different tariffs. My problem is with working from home i have monitors, laptops and tv going so unable to move any of this to off peak.

 

[paulm]

Thanks for the replies. Reading other forums, I was alerted that connection to the API could be a security issue so maybe that is why SAIC are not allowing it. The other comment was that Ohme was a re-badged Chinese design - but that’s what MG is so I won’t hold that against them!
I like the Ohme as it is compact and unobtrusive.

 

[Goldie007]

can you get the ohme changer with different length of tethered cable

 

[paulm]

They do 5m and 8m. I need the 8m due to my chosen location. Unfortunately it is disproportionately more expensive compared to the 5m.

 

[Ian Key]

They do 5m and 8m. I need the 8m due to my chosen location. Unfortunately it is disproportionately more expensive compared to the 5m.

The other option is to have it untethered and get an 10m Type 2 cable

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[paulm]

The Ohme Home Pro doesn't come untethered but I see rom their website that a new untethered model is coming soon.

 

[Jomarkh]

I used the original Ohme until I got my Zappi to make use of excess solar.
When my Go tariff ends I hope the Zappi will be on the Octopus IO list, if not I will go back to using the Ohme EVSE.

 

[Slipstream]

Keeping an eye on this. looking at the same one and switching to Octopus Intelligent

You won't be able to switch to octopus intelligent yet mg isn't on the list .