[App][Pro] Power Guard

Here we can have a thread dedicated to the app I’m working on. It is still under development and it will probably take some time before it works optimally, but feel free to share suggestions and experiences, and I will try to implement them if possible.

If you encounter any errors, please describe what happened and include a screenshot if you can, as well as a log file.
You can find the log file under Log → All → JSON. Copy the content, paste it into a text document, and send it to me.

Here is the link to the test version: Power Guard | Homey

Is anyone using this app who has feedback or suggestions on how the app could be further developed?

Hi, yes using the app, though only for a short while. Moving from Piggy Bank.

I’d like to see some more capabilities for a quick glance to whats going on. Allthough the app setting is nice, it is a bit cumbersome to go there for a quick look. And I don’t really use widgets.

I also have two cars that uses the same charger, so a way to tell PG which car is connected and its battery size could be nice. Perhaps by flows or a setting page.

how about somthing like this :slight_smile:
Set active car for [charger] with fields for:
Battery kWh, Target percentage

The user then creates two flows:

Car A connected → Set active car: 77 kWh, 80%
Car B connected → Set active car: 40 kWh, 90%

Optionally, it could also expose some capability values on PG’s Homey device
(sensor values shown on the device card):
current consumption, active charger amps, price mode

Yes, this all sounds good

try this version and see if this is what you want: Power Guard | Homey

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Thanks, I’ve installed it and set up the flows. Will test at my next charge.

Another thing, I noticed a “bug” with translation. I have my Homey set to english, but under Home → devices I have a device (Fibaro socket) that got an extra sub text in norwegian. “Ignorer effektmåling etc.” this should probably be in english as well.
The device do report power and energy, but maybe PG can’t see it?.

I never got to test with vo.8.86 as it auto updated to 0.8.87 before I started charging.
But, I can’t really tell if it works or not.
I don’t see that battery percent, size, and target are set anywhere in the PG logs.
Under the charger in devices, all fields are empty, and it says no car device (though it was always like that).
I have norgespris enabled and an Easee charger.

It starts charging, but in the charges section it says “connected - yes”, “Charging now - No”, “Should charge - No” and “Charge Mode, -”

In the “Reprt battery % for charger” then card it is not possible to select the charger anymore in v0.8.87. Nothing shows up in the charger field. This worked in v0.8.86.

in v0.8.87, it still sets charging complete endlessly on the timeline.

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check latesst update.