Optimising charger and car apps
Discussion
Morning all!
I've got an Ohme Pro charger and a VW ID7 plus EON Next Drive EV tariff.
Obviously I want to do my charging for peanuts between 00:00 and 07:00, and most of the time I'm perfectly happy to only charge to 80%, and everything seems to play nicely together in this respect.
I do, however, have a long drive later today, so wanted to charge to 100%. Not a problem, I thought! I can go into the VW app and tell it to charge to 100% and it gives me a message to say that I really shouldn't be doing that, but go on, as it's you, just for this one charging session, I'll do it!
All sorted, thinks I, and off to bed I go... Except it turns out that the Ohme doesn't charge in a single session for some reason. It does lots of little sessions, so I wake up at 03:30 to find the battery sitting at 80% because the VW app has been literal in a way only a German app could be and decided no, it doesn't care that the car hasn't been unplugged at any stage, I've still done more than one charging session!
I have now got it back charging at 7.54kW again, but only after putting a dressing gown on and heading down to the car to change settings there, and it's not quite going to get to 100% before 07:00 either.
I'm sure it really shouldn't be this difficult, so I'm wondering what people have found to be the best settings combo between apps? Given that 99% of my charging will be done at home, an I best off telling the car to just always charge immediately to 100% when plugged in, and then use the Ohme so to automatically dial this back down to 80% max and low tariff hours?
I've got an Ohme Pro charger and a VW ID7 plus EON Next Drive EV tariff.
Obviously I want to do my charging for peanuts between 00:00 and 07:00, and most of the time I'm perfectly happy to only charge to 80%, and everything seems to play nicely together in this respect.
I do, however, have a long drive later today, so wanted to charge to 100%. Not a problem, I thought! I can go into the VW app and tell it to charge to 100% and it gives me a message to say that I really shouldn't be doing that, but go on, as it's you, just for this one charging session, I'll do it!
All sorted, thinks I, and off to bed I go... Except it turns out that the Ohme doesn't charge in a single session for some reason. It does lots of little sessions, so I wake up at 03:30 to find the battery sitting at 80% because the VW app has been literal in a way only a German app could be and decided no, it doesn't care that the car hasn't been unplugged at any stage, I've still done more than one charging session!
I have now got it back charging at 7.54kW again, but only after putting a dressing gown on and heading down to the car to change settings there, and it's not quite going to get to 100% before 07:00 either.
I'm sure it really shouldn't be this difficult, so I'm wondering what people have found to be the best settings combo between apps? Given that 99% of my charging will be done at home, an I best off telling the car to just always charge immediately to 100% when plugged in, and then use the Ohme so to automatically dial this back down to 80% max and low tariff hours?
xx99xx said:
Can't you just set a departure time via the infotainment screen, to also only charge within your set off peak hours? Then leave the charger alone.
Yes, I think so. I think my issue seems to have been setting up both to try and control it! 
Once I've got it charged this morning, I think I'll just change the charger to always charge after session authorisation and then set the car up to charge to 80% any time it's plugged in between 00:00 and 07:00 at home, which should hopefully fix it.
The most annoying part was seemingly not being able to make that change on the apps whilst the car was plugged in.
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