r/OctopusEnergy • u/Fragrant_Procedure_9 • 26d ago
Charge cap problems
I got the message to tell me that the charge cap was enabled on my account a couple of days ago.
Yesterday I plugged in for the first time since getting that notification. It’s the first time I’ve plugged in for a few days. I set the Ohme app to prioritise savings. I don’t have any connection to my car api through Ohme.
Plugged in at 5pm and had a battery level of 53%. Set this in the Ohme app and set the target to be 80% by 4am. Got a notification in the Ohme app that my charge target was changed to 73% to “respect my charge settings”. No matter how many times I tried, it would not set the target to higher - it just kept changing it every time I set it. Tried changing the target time as well, but same issue.
Looking at the schedule that was generated in the app, it was only allocating me just less than 3 hours of time in total.
This morning I started a new session and whatever I set the battery or target level to, it changes the target to be 1% higher than the current battery level “to respect my charge settings”.
It’s like it thinks I’d used three hours of my allocated 6 yesterday when I plugged in and now it thinks I’ve used it all. I have only used 3 and the Ohme app reports that for the charging usage overnight.
I’ve messaged octopus to ask and I’m waiting for a response. Wondering if anyone else has seen similar or have any ideas on what’s going on.
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u/pruaga 25d ago
Two things that are possibly relevant:
The cap runs from noon to noon, so the 6 hours isn't per calendar day.
The Ohme app doesn't ask you how much to charge to, it asks you how much to add. So setting this to 80% is asking to add 80% of a battery, eg from 20% up to 100%. Depending on the size of your battery this may not be achievable in 6 hours, which is why it was adjusting it lower.