In this time of energy/price crisis, saving energy and money can be a big deal. This thread can be used to discuss new features for Power by the Hour. [image] Power by the Hour Summarize the energy/water usage or (solar) production per hour, day, month and year. Use dynamic tariffs. …

I am using this app for a few years now and it’s really great. The most important use case for me is to charge my car at the cheapest hours and to report on the amount charged, to keep an eye on what charging my car costs. This all works well, but I now have a new challenge because I bought a second…

Trying to find a logic card that can define if the spot price in a specific time frame is x% higher or lower than another specific time frame. Reason is to determine if the price diff is high enough to charge the solar battery from the grid or not. Picture 1. Current prices is one of the 4 lowest b…

Many thanks for your kind donation @Hakan_Berg ! Much appreciated :heart: Concerning your question: The battery monitor of PBTH has special flow cards to optimize financial ‘profit’ with a home battery. Did you look at that? Otherwise you could combine cards like this: [1000004892]

Hi Which one of these do you mean? [image] I tried several versions of the flow card you suggested. The challenge is that the peak in the evening is normally quite short. But the peak can be realy high, like double the price. Then the next day the peak is very small, but i still find it with t…

[image] Hakan_Berg: Which one of these do you mean? The home battery device. That has a linear solver to optimise profit for batteries. If your battery doesnt show up when you start pairing, I could maybe add support for your battery if I know what capabilities the battery app has. …

Do you mean this? [image] [image]

Yes that. Play with the ROI trigger card and then check the graph showing when it will charge/discharge. You first need to change the settings to match the figures for your battery.

OK Thx Woha, a lot of settings to figure out. I have a Goodwe Lynx 16,4kwh battery, next week i will have 2x 16.4kwh. (2 stacks 16,4) With a Goodwe ET 6,5kw VR. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/ https://en.goodwe.com/Ftp/EN/Downloads/Datasheet/GW_Lynx%20Home%20F%20PLUS+%20Seri…

Homey has a couple of standard Energy Flowcards, one of them being the following: [IMG_0017] For he non-Dutchies: “It’s of of the [NUMBER OF HOURS] cheapest hours between [TIME] and [TIME].” This is a real easy to use card, but it lack the ability to use logic for both [TIME] positions. As where…

This card does that: [image] That is find the lowest six hours between 19:00 and 07:00. And the second card is lowest six hours between 07:00 and 17:00. These will be the six consecutive hours.

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