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My thought is that I never heard of it. So, what is it?
I'm interested in it because occasionally, with scheduled departure, the car ends up charging before the off-peak period begins. That is, if I have a very low state of charge and I forget to adjust the charging parameters, or I calculate incorrectly, it will start charging a little before midnight. I'm assuming that Optiwatt would allow me to specify both the start and end of the off-peak time and ensure that I would never charge outside of that window, or it would give me a warning if that was about to occur.
On the other hand, I would like to avoid having another app that could possibly have glitches or cause some problems related to its interaction with the Tesla app, so I'm on the fence.
One alternative is to switch to scheduled charging whenever I come home with a low state of charge, but I need to remember to do that in that situation.
So I'm interested to hear what Optiwatt users think.
You can manually enter your rates.I have Optiwatt, but I don't use any of the scheduled charging aspects of it. I mainly use it to track my spending on car charging. However, I am not entirely confident in the accuracy of the app. I believe the kWh pricing is lower in the app than what my electric company says even though I signed in through them.
This only happens if you have it set this way.Optiwatt kept screwing up my charging. I would plug my charger in and start charging, only to have it randomly stop. Optiwatt ended up being the culprit because it was a go between my charger and my electric company. It wanted to only allow me to charge at night, during off peak hours. I deleted the app, and no more issues.
I'm aware. This was for informational purposes only. If other people were having issues, this is one place to look as to the reason for charging issues.This only happens if you have it set this way.
That's a good idea. Thanks. I just manually uploaded a bill to see if it would see my rates accurately. If not, I will try to set my rate manually.You can manually enter your rates.
Yes, but I like the charging to finish just before departure time. I know it's overkill, but often it only has to charge 20 miles worth, so I don't like it sitting at 80 or 90 percent from 1 AM on.You could fix your issue with using scheduled charging time, instead of scheduled departure. Scheduled departure is not going to start at the same time by design. Scheduled charging will, also by design.
I totally agree with ice-nine ! optiwatt is not accurate at all when it comes to report charging cost... it is not a question of entering the right rate, but the way they make the whole calculation.You can manually enter your rates.