Timer update charge period

[ITSpecialist111]

Firstly this is an amazing intergration!!

I've found a bug that if you're trying to set the Force charge and charge from grid to 'Off', but also want to update the timer to 00:00:00 this is impossible.

Work around: To have the period "off" the change requires at least 'force charge' enabled, and to set the period start & End a minute apart.

You can't have this time overlap with another.
You can't set 00:00:00 on each start & end - Fox removed the force change option in the UI. And now relies on the timer to be zero'ed to be ignored. (If the timer is set it will now act like the force charge switch).

[canton7]

I really need to write an faq on this... This is the intended behaviour. To disable a charge period, disable the "Enable force charge" toggle. It will send 00:00-00:00 to the inverter and remember the last times you had set.

[canton7]

This is for the charge period card, so you can re-enable the charge period without having to re-enter the times.

[ITSpecialist111]

MMmm I'm not using the charge period card. If you already have the timers set as: 01:00:00 and 03:00:00 and turn off the binary sensors. the inverter ignores the time changes

alias: Check Octopus Intelligent Dispatch Slot OFF and Battery SOC
trigger:

• platform: time_pattern
  minutes: /2
  condition:
• condition: state
  entity_id: binary_sensor.octopus_intelligent_planned_dispatch_slot
  state: "off"
  action:
• service: foxess_modbus.update_charge_period
  data:
  inverter: 73afbbec6a8de5343770d3d01e40ff67
  enable_force_charge: false
  enable_charge_from_grid: false
  start: "00:00:00"
  end: "00:00:00"
  charge_period: "2"

[canton7]

the inverter ignores the time changes

What do you mean by that?

Please see the conversation here: https://m.facebook.com/groups/foxessownersgroup/permalink/1917321598650013/?paipv=0&eav=AfbwNQriwVl0L1u3pONnBObprkPrC2klWzXJRBDKjf-ooxpoVneCxGaO3wvzbYyiF1k&wtsid=rdr_0uazARHvMlFJgFimT&_rdr

[canton7]

See also #367 and #146

[canton7]

If your automation ends up calling the service, it will send 00:00-00:00 to the inverter to disable the charge period. The integration however will remember the last-set times, and will display them. You can check what's set on the inverter using the front panel. Note that the foxess app seems to show changes to the charge period straight away (as long as you exit/re-enter the appropriate page), but if you disable a charge period it can take half an hour to show on the app. That is a cloud thing: it takes the inverter a while to send updates to the cloud.