Optimise the charging and discharging of your home battery.

Choose when to charge and discharge your battery, multiple times a day. Trigger charging based on the time of day,  the cost of your electricity*, or the charge in your battery. 

What does it do?

Our technology automates the charging and discharging of your home energy battery. It uses your inverters API (cloud based data connection) to read and write commands to your system, to initiate charging and discharging of the battery.

How does it schedule charging and discharge?

This depends on the level of integration with your energy supplier.

You have the most options if you have an Octopus Smart Tariff, and an Octopus Export Tariff, but you can use the service no matter what energy supplier you have.

Time Blocks.

All users can set up multiple charging and discharging schedules based on the time of day.  Each schedule is known as a time block.

Octopus Agile Customers

Those on Octopus Agile, can choose to schedule charging in the cheapest 30 minute Agile time slots for each time block scheduled. This allows the cheapest slots to be considered for the whole day, or restricted to say overnight. 

Octopus Smart Tariff's

Those on Octopus multi-rate smart tariffs such as Go, Intelligent Go, and Flux can  choose to charge below a price, so that charging only occurs during the cheap rates within a time block.

Intelligent Octopus Go

Intelligent Go customers can only trigger charge in the scheduled (normal) overnight period. The ad-hoc periods offered by Octopus when you plug-in your EV are not supported. Integration is ongoing, but as Octopus are gradually getting tighter integration with EV’s and chargers the opportunities for this may be diminishing.

Battery State of Charge

Schedule charging based on the state of charge (SoC) of your home battery. When it drops below your threshold, charge can be triggered.  

Solar Charge

You can also choose to include automatic control of your battery upper charge limit (%) when charging from the grid, based on the predicted generation from your solar panels or based on a manual limit. 

Planned Maintenance

From 11am Saturday 16th Nov

Following the outage earlier this week, I’ve decided to move the website/service to a new hosting provider. While the outage prompted the timing, it wasn’t the only reason.

The key benefit of the move is increased computing resources, which are essential given that the site processes hundreds of commands every 30 minutes. 

Migration Timing and Impact

The migration will start at 11 am Saturday, 16th November. Unfortunately, migration can take 24–48 hours, but it is often much quicker.

During this time:

  • Maintenance Mode: The site will be in maintenance mode (inaccessible) to freeze the database and pause account changes.
  • Automation: Scheduled automation should continue, but there may be a brief gap when the internet transitions to the new server.
  • Temporary Issues: Some features, such as charts and parts of the dashboard, may not work immediately after migration. These will be fixed as quickly as possible.

If you’d like me to temporarily pause your settings at 11 am to allow manual control, please let me know. I will also be able to access the settings during the majority of the migration for last minute changes. 

Richard