How's the BETA test on weather forecasting going

6 comments started 2023-09-26 last 2023-09-28
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#1 ChrisAB

Hi,

Is there an update on the BETA testing on coupling weather forecast to my charge from grid planning?

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#2 stevelewis

ChrisAB plenty of automations already doing this very well... why wait?

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#3 ChrisAB

stevelewis
Mainly because I'm lazy and I'd like to minimse the amount of work I need to do to make things happen. I can set up multiple other systems of course, but that involves me actually buying and setting up other things.
For me the more that's built into a system the better it is - of course if the system isn't any good after I've tested it then I'll go and get other things, but ATM I'm keen to understand how this is progressing.

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#4 stevelewis

ChrisAB it's been talked about on and off for at least 18 months. It won't sell more product or fix a critical bug. Ask again in 2 years!

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#5 thewhalw21

ChrisAB Think all the people in the Beta have to sign an NDA, So short of one of the GE staff saying something i think you might have to wait.

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#6 SilverArt

ChrisAB I haven't tried it in real anger yet but Wonder watt looks as if it will meet my very basic needs. [https://community.givenergy.cloud/d/2557-wonder-watt-only-set-discharge-no-charge](https://)
and it costs you nothing to try.
I've kept a track of its performance against the Solcast forecast and Wonder watt can be quite a bit less optimistic regarding the next day's generation level, but I 'think' it will do what I want it to do. Mid next month I'll maybe have a better idea when I let it properly loose on overnight charging in anger. (My fixed tariff is coming to an end and I'm switching to an Eco7 tariff.)