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There's a lot of moving parts involved when you decide to try to micro-manage charging and discharging your home battery system based on expected demand and solar generation forecast, and I missed one overnight.

With the low solar generation yesterday and expected low today, I set an hour schedule overnight while the Agile rates were low to top-up. Checking this morning and it stopped charging after only 35 minutes.

Yes, of course it did. That's when it reached the 45% target state of charge automatically set by the #GivTCP integration.

Trying to be too clever for my own good and missed a setting. Ok, setting added to my dashboard so it's blatantly obvious and another charge session picked out for later this morning to catch-up.

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Hmmmm, 2% state of charge on the battery is not what I expected to find this morning but at least I understand what's happened, mostly. We had Eddie, our EV, set to charge overnight and it looks like one of my home assistant installs running the GivTCP plugin reset the GivEnergy battery discharge level back to the default 3600w allowing it all to dump into Eddie.

It should have been set to 500w allowing enough for our overnight base load with a bit spare to go into Eddie but I suspect having 2 home assistant installs, both running GivTCP has confused something somewhere.

At least we are starting to get some sun already and we are forecast another 39kWh solar day so we should have no problem refilling the battery.

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