Apparently my internet is out and could be off for another day. Usually Octopus R&D charges my battery on the best agile spots but that won’t work tonight without internet connection.
Can I connect locally and charge via timed or manual?
The app won’t even open without internet !
pacemaker Right, there is a way you can fix this, do you have a phone or anybody else have a phone that is able to act as a hotspot, you could connect to your access point for your inverter and change the network it connects to to the device that is acting as a hotspot and then you should be able to change info on the portal but not local.
If you do rely on Octopus R&D and not want to do the portal route then you would have to leave the hotspot on, if you have a phone contract with lots of data you could leave the hotspot going but I don't know if you will be able to run the hotspot and connect to the inverter AP on the same device.
Maybe if you have another device with a data connection?
You could use your phone as a hotspot whilst connecting to the inverter via wireless from a PC/Laptop to configure it to run from your mobile hotspot then when your internet returns just go into inverter page and link it back up with your network.
the internet came back thankfully, however my timed Agile R&D charges never fired (even though they were scheduled to start after internet was restored).
Is there something I need to do to recover? I've setup a new timed charge at 8am to see if it triggers, unsure what to do if they're just stopping, there's no errors to be seen.
pacemaker it depends on how it's implemented: if the server sends start and stop commands at the appropriate times, then it should have worked; but if the server populates the inverters timed slots at a fixed time, and your system was not available to receive those instructions, it wouldn't work.
I don't think the ge cloud stores a set of changes to be applied when the inverter next connects; it either happens immediately or not at all.
DD that's what I assumed too. I looked at the R&D logs, it had no charge events for 13th between 00:00-08:30 (which is my usual window for charging within the best 6 slots) - not even a try and fail. My internet was back at 22:30 last night, so it must do something ahead of time (maybe checking if it's online, unsure), and if it gets a bad response it doesn't bother trying for the timed window coming up...
I just scheduled a charge and that worked, so I guess just take this one on the chin!
IIRC, agile prices are published around 6pm for the next day, so it's plausible that R&D labs would send updates around then. Does the portal activity log show when the schedule is usually set ?
If you have a suitable computer on at the appropriate time, you could possibly set a default charge window in the slot that the R&D labs typically use, around noon or so. That way, if any of the cloud services fail, you at least have a fallback set up. But if things do work correctly, the fallback will be overwritten each day.
As I'm sure you know, you can control the inverter locally. Most people use Home Assistant integrations, but setting up HA is non-trivial. For trivial jobs like this, you can use the givenergy-modbus directly from a simple standalone python script. (I have a lot of respect for the various systems others are sharing, but I have a strong preference for small scripts which do a single thing, rather than sprawling systems which try to do everything.)
DD yeah, I have some PHP experience, I have a PHP script that is doing effectively half the R&D job, which is identifying the cheapest half hour charge windows, I could adapt that to send local commands to charge during those - though the modbus stuff is new to me (and I am Mac OS based).
pacemaker Just woke up, glad to hear it came back online but cannot help with the R&D thing as I don't use it.