How to handle days where you know you will have higher usage?

[dannyoneill]

With Christmas approaching and other social commitments requiring me to people a lot more.

With that in mind. Whats the best way to tell Predbat "Hey, usage will be high tomorrow. Charge up and self consume the solar as much as possible?"

Ive read the documentation, watched all the videos (really useful BTW!) and there are a few ways I can achieve this. But what is the best. Or is there a toggle?

Today for example it held charge as it knew it was going to just dump the battery later. But later I may be cooking a turkey.

[gcoan]

There are three main ways to do this.

You can either manually overwrite predbat's planned activity for specific slots up to 18 hours ahead - can click the times in the plan in the predbat web console, or use the select.predbat_manual_ controls to choose the times you want predbat to do specific things.

https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/customisation/#manual-control

As well as adjusting predbat's planned activity you can also adjust the load for a slot by setting input_number.predbat_manual_load_value to the kWh adjustment and using select.predbat_manual_load_adjust to select specific time slots for that adjustment.

The advantage of this approach is it's easy to do, you directly change the planned activity, but you can only do it for the next 18 hours of slots.

The second alternative way is to adjust the energy rates for a time period using rates_import_override in apps.yaml, set a zero rate energy rates adjustment, and specify a load adjustment kWh figure.

https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/energy-rates/#manually-over-riding-energy-rates

The advantage of this way is you can specific a date/time range for the adjustment, so you can specify much further in advance.

Final option is to use the predbat manual API to set rate and load overrides without having to edit apps.yaml. There's a worked example of this including a simple dashboard to enter date, times, load % in the documentation

https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/manual-api/#example-solution-to-over-ride-predicted-house-load