I've checked, it isn't compatible yet.
You do not require compatable charger for Octopus Go, it gives you cheap rate between 12.30 and 4.30 every day.
Intelligent Octopus currently only works with three EVSE ( charge points).
Switch to Octopus if not already a customer, say you want the EV tariff and they will sort out your meter.
That wouldn't work well for a lot of people that need their car to be charged by the next day?
An overnight charge for those whose commute needs to replace daily miles, not fill the battery, this is why Go exists.
Excellent Idea, I do something similar with a Smart Plug, Granny charger and HomeKit.
Which is pretty much what i said, if you need to be sure of it charging you cant rely on the agile pricing dropping below 'x' amount hence why it may not be suitable for a lot of people.
There is also Wallbox that is compatible too.
No, thats not how it works. Octopus offer a very low price &.5p off peak for a guaranteed 6 hours overnight. They have to be able to control the charging either starting / stopping or adjusting charge rate so they can balance the grid to match their forward purchasing. They also offer under their control extra off peak rate slots during peak time.
Simply the demand on the grid 'v' the energy they have purchased.
There are magical things called timers or schedulers, often built in to wallboxes and/or EV's.
what charger and EV do you have?
No, you will always get a charge, as a minimum 23:30 to 05:30 every day, you may however get more outside those times if more is needed. In the Octopus app you simply say how much charge you need to add and what time you need it by. For example last night I said I needed 70% charge adding and I needed it by 11:00 today. Octopus gave me a schedule which actually started at 04:00 and ran through to 11:00 so I benefited from off peak pricing from 23:30 through to 11:00. With the right charger or car the system works really well.Aaah, so potentially, you might not get a charge at all...
Oh dear, it's a fairly basic function, you would expect that to work art very least.
It's a shame you didnt get better support.
That does seem to happen quite a lot, you really need to change the socket for a good quality item and possibly the plug on the granny charger to resolve the issue.My previous Citroen Zero just charged from an outside 240v socket, which heated up quite a lot...
For between 7 to 8 months of the year we only charge using the granny charger and don't have any issues with it or the socket getting hot. We've basically got the granny charger plugged into an outside socket which has a Shelley device attached to it. That is controlled through home assistant so that when the solar PV has charged the house batteries it turns on the car granny charger and dumps excess energy into the car. Home assistant turns the granny charger off if it starts draining the house batteries. Beauty of this is most of the time we simply don't think about charging. Whenever we get home we plug the granny charger into the car and just leave it. We only do about 8k miles a year and the car is generally at home during the day when the solar array is working.My previous Citroen Zero just charged from an outside 240v socket, which heated up quite a lot...
I have used my ProjectEV EVSE with Octopus Go for over a year with no issues. Since March I have used the new ElectricMiles app as the PEV app was no longer supported.
There wouldn't be a problem with Octopus GO at all, it's a dumb tariff and just switches pricing between 00:30 and 04:30.
I wouldn't have thought there was any point in the wallbox knowing about the car, what would it do armed with that information?
Actually its really useful as with the current software (not the EVSE) you tell it the car model SR/LR and which supplier/tarrif and it tells you exactly what is costs for all of your charges.
I wouldn't have thought that would be too reliable, the rate at which tariffs change and the likes of agile tariffs etc.
Do the cars and/or apps not store charge data?
Have a look at Home Assistant as an add on, you can probably get the data split how you need.
