springfall2008 / batpred

Home battery prediction and charging automation for Home Assistant, supporting many inverter types
https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/
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Predbat modes, documentation query #689

Closed gcoan closed 7 months ago

gcoan commented 7 months ago

Question on the GivEnergy forum from pacemaker:

"I found another issue in the docs:

https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/what-does-predbat-do/#predbat-status

The above is the wrong way round. Freeze Discharging stops the battery from discharging at all, grid/solar cover the house load."

I wanted to check with @springfall2008 before answering which was correct or not.

Personally I find the different Freeze statii a bit confusing anyway as they are named so similarly, so didn't want to give a POV on how they should operate

springfall2008 commented 7 months ago

While the terminology maybe confusing it is correct.

The way to think if it is that Freeze Charging is like a charge but to the current battery level while Freeze Discharge is like a discharge to the current level.

In reality Freeze Discharging is just ECO mode with charging disabled, which causes solar to export.

gcoan commented 7 months ago

Great thanks for a quick reply, I'll update the docs to try to explain it further