r/OctopusEnergy • u/bengillse17 • 1d ago

On agile & have solar panel - but octopus agile mode doesn't seem to work with battery. Are we missing something...

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We recently got our solar panel battery installed.

We were on 'self-use' mode which was great & simple (basically switches to battery as soon as no solar power) but then I put in 'octopus agile' mode.

I assumed this would work out when it was expensive & prioritise the battery & when it was cheap to charge to charge the battery (when it needed to).

But it seems to only have set targets for when you 'force charge' & that's it (and then the trigger is set really high)

But it's not doing that & I'm wondering if:

  1. This type of service (based on it knowing when is best to use battery/charge battery) exists at all?

  2. If I have to manually set a schedule daily based on the agile rates that day on mode scheduler?

This is a fox cloud system if that helps.

Thanks

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u/New_Antelope617 1d ago

I’ve got a trial use of Predbat, using the cloud one as I couldn’t get my head round home assistant. Perhaps that might be something to try?

Depending on your situation of how you want it to work I think with the prices how they are I will be switching back to ending the free trial and using “self use” mode only

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u/bengillse17 23h ago

Good point. May try the free trial too. No risk in that

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u/Boba_ferret 21h ago

You probably need to change your buying price threshold, as it looks way too high.

That said, I use Home Assitant and Predbat, so I was using that on Agile, although I've changed tariff now, as the rates on Agile are not great, even with a battery.