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Advanced Blueprints combined with pyscript for extra useful automations
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Feature Request: PV electricity is not enough - device should still have been running until a certain point in time #88

Open maxxnet2 opened 1 month ago

maxxnet2 commented 1 month ago

Hello, thanks for this great blueprint. What I'm still missing, however, is that I want to enter a device runtime and a time by which the device must be switched on in any case. Example: dishwasher - the dishwasher has a peak consumption of 2000W. I also entered this value in the blueprint. A wash cycle takes around 80 minutes. Even if there is not enough PV electricity available during the day, the dishwasher should be running by 5 p.m. at the latest. With a running time of 80 minutes, it would have to start the wash cycle at 3:40 p.m, regardless of whether there is enough PV electricity available or not. Of course I can also create my own automation for this, but it would be cleaner in the blueprint.

Thanks, Markus

nicorusti commented 4 weeks ago

This is what #80 does when you enforce a minimum runtime: If solar forecast for the rest of the day is not enough, it runs appliances anyways as long as there is some export