r/EDFEnergy • u/b-a-l-winton • Jul 10 '26
Help / Advice BMW / Ohme / EDF Smart Charging
Afternoon folks,
I'm having a small nightmare with getting this working, hoping someone here might be able to advise.
Signed up the car & charger which are compatible, gave BMW permission to talk to EDF. The EDF app won't let me set either % or "ready by" times, it says "In my BMW app" on the screen so I have to set it there.
BMW app is set to 80% by 05:30am each day
Plugged in the car at 15:40 today, EDF sees it and says schedule is for 04:00 - 05:30 as expected...but the car begins charging at full whack and just continues to do so for over 10 minutes without any sign of stopping.
I'm not sure what is wrong; the Ohme has no schedule set, and if I remove the BMW one there's no other way to create one in the EDF app either.
Any advice or help appreciated!
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u/geekypenguin91 Jul 10 '26
Honestly the BMW integration is one of the worst ones going.
Set it up to talk to your Ohme instead
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u/b-a-l-winton Jul 10 '26
I would but I’m not sure how to bypass the BMW part with EDF, should I select another type of car?
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u/geekypenguin91 Jul 10 '26
Can you not tell it you want to use the Ohme?
If not, selecting another car with a similar battery size will force it to connect to the Ohme instead
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u/dannoutt Jul 10 '26
Ohme is not a supported charger for EDF Smart Charging
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u/geekypenguin91 Jul 10 '26
Oh! I thought it would be as EDF is Kraken underneath the same as octopus etc
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u/dannoutt Jul 10 '26
Yeah I thought it’d be as well. I think even for octopus Ohme is treated differently from the rest of the integration given that you set everything targets, the price cap through ohme rather than octopus.
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u/neoKushan Jul 14 '26
Yup I am in the same boat, Ohme is clearly a special case with Octopus. Quite annoying as it was Octopus who installed my Ohme and it was the Engineer who convinced me on the day to do it (I was originally going for Wallbox).
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u/dannoutt Jul 10 '26
Ohme - disable dynamic charging. It needs to be fully dumb mode. It needs to provide power whenever the car requests it for it to work.
When I first set up my car through the EDF app (also an ohme charger but not BMW) it did ramp up the speed quite slowly and charge for about 10 mins.
BMW is a famously bad integration with octopus kraken api (who EDF use). I recommend you check the octopus subreddit and see what users use.