Auto & Eco set, unit starts at night

[lebsd]

V.4.2.2. My understanding is that when the mode is set Auto (let OpenEvse drcide) and Eco divert (PV power ratio set to 1.1), the unit will charge IF there is excess electricity regardless of any scheduled times.

Issue: Unit started charging at night when there was no excess and use the schedule times that should only be used when Fast (vs Eco) charge is set.

Background: I submitted a previous issue where I had set a time to disable with Auto and Eco divert and the unit did not rurned off at specific time. The response was Auto Eco does not use the scheduled times.

[jeremypoulter]

PV divert and the schedule are independent of each other, as in enabling one does not affect the other, so if you have a schedule set for night time charging it will run regardless of the Eco / Fast mode.

[lebsd]

Thanks for your quick response. I am still confuse with the logic. My previous issue report said that while there was still solar, charge is not controlled by schedule. Can you point me to the module or modules that have the logic for the divert and also the schedule? I have some basic programming knowledge and would like to follow the current logic.

Perhaps the logic set initially was based on solar only, but now many are using Batteries such as myself. As an example last night: I set my batteries to operate during peak hours only specifying the max load Watts supplied by the batteries during those hours. So I can control the rate of discharge of my batteries based on load. Any shortage of power to local load is then pulled from the grid. I assumed Mode Eco meant adjusting based on solar availability, therefore no solar, no power to charge the car independent of what TOU. Instead charging was set to max so it drained my battery faster. If I wanted to charge with battery and grid during the TOU, I would have set the toggle charge to Enabled (vs let evse decide) and Fast. (in the present logic, looks like setting Let Eco decide with Eco mode behaves the same way as Enabled and Fast charging forcing me to physically disconnect the car at night to prevent battery drain or modify my TOU schedule. I would recommend this logic to make better use of Toggle charge options and mode and battery users:

Toggle Charge Mode TOU Action Enabled Fast not set Charge immediately at the max Amp rate set for the unit

Enabled Fast set Charge immediately at the max Amp rate set for the unit AND On/Off dependent in TOU schedule

Let Eco decide Eco not set Charge based on divert parameters amps available (ie will only charge when solar is available, no night charging)

Let Eco decide Eco set Charge based on divert parameters amps available AND TOU, only charge when solar is available, never night charging (if there is no start time set, it will start when solar excess is available, ie 6 Amps min. If start is set but no stop, it will stop when < 6A)

Let Eco decide Fast not set (same as Enabled, Fast, TOU not set above)

Let Eco decide Fast set (same as Enabled, Fast, TOU set above)

Thanks for your efforts ! Luis

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jeremy Poulter @.***> wrote:

PV divert and the schedule are independent of each other, as in enabling one does not affect the other, so if you have a schedule set for night time charging it will run regardless of the Eco / Fast mode.

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[KipK]

this has changed in dev branch. Now toggling enable charge will ignore divert ( i e Eco disabled ), and Fast button has been removed, there's only an Eco toggle now.