"No charge slots" on Agile, today.

Hi all, I'm running an AIO2 on Octopus Agile, and it's been fine for over a month. Today it seems to have decided that there's no available charge slots, based on my automation settings, though I think that's the default message.

Apologies for the cross post, realised this was the best place for this.

They haven't really changed, though the "Enable Automation" had been switched off at some point. It's back on now. I've reset the settings and re-associated it with my account. The charge thresholds don't preclude import today, and the automation settings should ignore those anyway. I've made sure the inverter's time is sync'd, fwiw.

Any other suggestions?
Also is there an easy way to force it to start charging when the rate gets down below 1p in a couple of hours' time? I suppose I could set up a time schedule, but the equivalent of a start/stop charge would be simpler.

So after disabling automation settings for a few hours and setting up a charge slot for <1p, I've just turned them on again, and it's set up today's slots (including this evening's). So it looks like a temporary issue at the portal end.

Edit: though tomorrow's slots are messed up due to the time change, it seems. It's set to charge up to 5pm, instead of 4pm.

adskankster I think you get what you get with the portal smart tariff automation and there isn’t much ability to customise what it does. Time handling with the clock change, yes can understand how that could well have thrown it off

Thanks, yes, working in IT I tend to collect systems that fail a time change. There's usually at least one a year.

I've switched to doing it manually - you can squeeze a bit more out of days like today when it tends to be a bit conservative on time slots and will select earlier ones it doesn't need to, that may be a bit higher price. Also when the post midnight slots are cheaper than the end of day ones, but it's already filled up the battery (the latter would be fairly straight forward fix, I think).

I'm hoping it gets fixed soon though (not holding my breath), as though it'll save a bit more money doing it manually, it's a bit of daily faff and I was happy with the balance between the two, up to now.

If you are in IT you should find Home Assistant and PredBat a doddle to set up, and much more fun as a toy to play with. Extremely customisable and lots of data as well. You will likely need a Raspberry Pi 3 or above, or some computer with low requirements you can run 24/7. Docker is one option depending on your expertise and complexity tolerance.

Yeah, I've read some of the threads on here about it, and it looks interesting, but after spending 5 days troubleshooting badly written systems, projects like that tend to spend months on the to do list. 20 years ago, I might have done it, but these days it's all a bit cobbler's shoes. If I get forced to I'll do it. Otherwise I might need to find some other motivation.

pwdst Actually, the more dynamic control of the tariff slots might be enough to persuade me, thanks.