Octopus Flux - Give energy battery settings

sewingqueen

Looking for advice on how flux and the battery settings will work.

I understand I can set the battery to charge between 2am and 5am.

If during the day some of the battery power is consumed will it get topped up by solar again? Or will it not charge because of the timed setting?

Would I have to turn this timed setting on and off each day?

I have 12 panels, a 5kwh battery and normally use around 12kwh per day.

tripled

Yes, it will be topped up by solar. I used to be on Go, and am still on a time of use tariff, and charge at night. Battery operates as normal outside the defined charging period. Enable dynamic mode and timed charge.

sewingqueen

Thank you, it sounded a lot of faff otherwise 

pap1955

There are problems with Give Energy Batteries and timed charging and discharging.  I have a *kwh battery which is still under guarantee. I've programmed it through the app to charge at offpeak times and export at peak times. Unfortunately the battery ignores this and charges during the night then immediately discharges. This means we pay to charge it and then it basically gives at least half back to the grid for which we get nothing. Trying to get Give Energy to sort this but they don't respond.  The b attery started doing this after a firmware update just before C hristmas 2024

debitcardmayhem

pap1955 said:

There are problems with Give Energy Batteries and timed charging and discharging.  I have a *kwh battery which is still under guarantee. I've programmed it through the app to charge at offpeak times and export at peak times. Unfortunately the battery ignores this and charges during the night then immediately discharges. This means we pay to charge it and then it basically gives at least half back to the grid for which we get nothing. Trying to get Give Energy to sort this but they don't respond.  The b attery started doing this after a firmware update just before C hristmas 2024

Yes it’s annoying, as soon you enable timed export it turns off ECO settings immediately and everything comes from the panels and grid. I have to enable it when needed and then turn ECO back on after it finiishes. I am looking to see if I can do it via Home Assistant which will making automatically, but need to figure that first.

debitcardmayhem

Ok, I am working my way through using HA and found tutorials which are good thus far, just in case you want to use HA
https://www.speaktothegeek.co.uk/2022/12/givtcp-v2-givenergy-and-home-assistant-with-solar-forecast-automation/
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnc2sTncbbQ