search

hif2k1 / battery_sim

Home assistant home battery simulator - allows you to model how much energy you would save with a home battery
115 stars 14 forks source link

Top up with Off Peak grid power #125

Open leighpilkington opened 5 months ago

leighpilkington commented 5 months ago

G’day,

Great simulator! It’s working really well despite the refresh rate being a bit slow. Giving me a great picture.

I have three hours of free power each day for charging an EV and in reality that chews up most of my excess solar. In practice, if I install a battery I will be topping it up each day at this time with the free grid power. At the moment (in winter) I’m struggling to get any significant power into the simulated battery.

Is there a way where I can set the simulator to simply fill up - if I could set the state of the sensor that would be ideal but obviously I can’t do that with a sensor. This would allow me to properly model what savings I would generate.

Cheers,

Leigh

hif2k1 commented 5 months ago

You should be able to make an automation that changes the batteries "Battery Mode" input to "Force charge" during your 3 hours of free power and then back to "Default" at other times. Hope this works for you.

Hamish

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 23:20, leighpilkington @.***> wrote:

G’day,

Great simulator! It’s working really well despite the refresh rate being a bit slow. Giving me a great picture.

I have three hours of free power each day for charging an EV and in reality that chews up most of my excess solar. In practice, if I install a battery I will be topping it up each day at this time with the free grid power. At the moment (in winter) I’m struggling to get any significant power into the simulated battery.

Is there a way where I can set the simulator to simply fill up - if I could set the state of the sensor that would be ideal but obviously I can’t do that with a sensor. This would allow me to properly model what savings I would generate.

Cheers,

Leigh

— Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/hif2k1/battery_sim/issues/125, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFAIZGJIJLO7IZHKV6VTFCLY6BBJJAVCNFSM6AAAAABGODSD3CVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZSGI2TCNRXGU4TSOA . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: @.***>

tubbers commented 5 months ago

i can confirm that the Automation approach to force charge works.

leighpilkington commented 5 months ago

I missed the first reply! Thanks both - I will be dropping that into the workflow today.

tubbers commented 5 months ago

I missed the first reply! Thanks both - I will be dropping that into the workflow today.

Screenshot_20240501-093756