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markgdev / home-assistant_OctopusAgile

Octopus Agile custom component for Home Assistant
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Cheapest time slots but within certain hours #64

Open richsimpson opened 3 years ago

richsimpson commented 3 years ago

Really like this, been using for a while for car charging electric vehicle. Wanted to do a best time slot for other items but not sure how or if possible.

Eg Tumble Dryer with run time of 2 hours, the cheapest slot between 8am or current time and 9pm. Tried adding a run before and run after but keep getting told to turn it on at 03.30 am, Mrs S wouldn't be impressed with that and don't want it to automate and be running when not around as a bit dangerous.

Any thoughts Mark?

d1964b commented 3 years ago

Hard to say what might be wrong without seeing the relevant section from your configuration.yaml file.

Having said that if the run_devices option isn't doing it for you , then you might consider a different integration like octoblock by badguy99. It's great at giving you a cheap timeslot when that time window has to be contiguous - such as might be used by a tumble dryer. I used to use it but switched to octopusagile because I was happy to have my active time slots fragmented across a time window. No reason why you can't use both integrations and choose what works for you.