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Home battery prediction and charging automation for Home Assistant, supporting many inverter types
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iBoost Forecast Using Current & Next Gas Rates #936

Closed nbullus closed 5 months ago

nbullus commented 5 months ago

Describe the bug The Octopus Gas Tracker tariff utilises two cost sensors:

sensor.octopus_energy_gas_XXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX_current_rate sensor.octopus_energy_gas_XXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX_next_rate

But only the current rate is defined in the apps.yaml and used when determining whether gas is cheaper than electricity. Once tomorrows rate is published, the forecast on which slots will be targeted for iBoost will use the wrong price.

Expected behavior When iBoost is determining whether gas is cheaper than electricity within the plan forecast, it should use the appropriate gas sensor based on whether it is forecasting for today or tomorrow.

The next rate will have a state of 'Unknown' until the price is published at 4pm. Therefore the plan should estimate tomorrows iBoost slots using current gas price until tomorrow's gas price is released.

Predbat version

v7.6.11

Environment details

Screenshots Current and next rate sensors listed shown under Gas Price card.

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apps.yaml:

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Log file

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springfall2008 commented 5 months ago

In theory this should work, it will pull rate data from previous, current and next rate events.

Are you seeing that it doesn't work?

nbullus commented 5 months ago

It looks like the current/next gas rate sensors don't work as I thought. The gas tracker price doesn't change at 4pm as originally thought, but actually changes at midnight and so there is only ever one rate to reference each day, i.e. the current rate. The next gas rate sensor remains as "Unknown", So when Predbat it is looking at tomorrows Agile slots to see if any are cheaper than gas, it has to compare with todays gas price Any Agile slots tomorrow earmarked today for iBoost may then change at midnight once the market gas price changes. As the gas price may go up/down it has to re-calculate based on the the updated gas price. Therefore there should be no issue with how it is working and so close the report down.`

springfall2008 commented 5 months ago

Thanks