MGCamb
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- Aug 1, 2023
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
- Driving
- MG4 Trophy LR
There is a lock you can buy from them (£38.99) and obviously you would not advertise the charger on their map. Not too bothered as in a small cul-de-sac and everyone knows who is who and a number of (other) pensioners about.Ohme Home Pro here too. I think it's nice and neat, it's physically robust and the software seems reliable.
£999 install through Octopus - I could have got it cheaper probably, but since I intended to get Intelligent Octopus, I thought it would smooth the support.
There have been some very slight teething problems with Intelligent Octopus (when it split the charge schedule into two blocks some time apart, the car went to sleep and refused the second block), but this gave Ohme the opportunity to show how good their support is - top marks.
The stats the app gives you are pretty nice - e.g. CO2 savings compared to an ICE car - but could go further.
It's a awful shame that Ohme can't use the MG API. We therefore miss out on features -- the charger can't make smart decisions based on the current SOC. I really hope they get this sorted. It's hugely annoying that the whole industry is a mish-mash of competing, often proprietary, API standards. See also Plug & Charge for public charging.
My other gripe, as with MG iSmart, is password sharing. If you want two people to control the charger with the phone app, they have to share a username and password. If you start off by authenticating using a Google/Apple/Facebook account, you have to wipe that account and start again with email/password authentication, so you can share. This is pretty pathetic in 2023.
(Come to think of it, this would be a real problem if I wanted to do something like Co-Charger, and I wanted to lock the charger... Do PodPoint home chargers have a solution for this?)
Will be looking to lock the system out during times it is not on cheap rate

Guy is here with electricity off - I first enquired Tuesday evening. Still waiting for a quote from Ohme and went to a local electrician on the HMG site who offered a range of chargers but none I have heard of. Relatively painless experience. Just have to get my car back from the wife who is a lady who coffees during school holidays.