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Sheduled Charging

I think all my previous "smart" chargers would not charge when the EV was plugged in, IF there was a schedule.   Unless manually selected to start a charge, they'd wait for the schedule start time.


The openevse charger charges right when I plug the EV in.  I tried setting up a schedule starting at 9am and all days of the week, but it still starts charging immediately when plugging in the car.


How can I set up a schedule to activate the charge and not have the charge start when I plug the EV in?


I looked all over for this throughout the menus and did not see anything. Also, I looked for a guide on usage of the charger and found nothing so far.


Thank you!



I have a timer set for every day of the week to disable at 12:01a.  I keep this always, even though the default is to set to disabled.


I then set another Timer to activate (12:02A)

I then set a third Timer to Disable (5:00a)


Works for me.

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Hi. Yes to "Is the station turning purple and sleeping when disabled and green when enabled?"

When I toggle charge mode from disabled to auto, charging kicks in (as expected) but scheduled times show up in the middle dispaly bar, as below

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would me sending logs or config help troubleshoot this? 

In terms of upgrading, I bumped the wifi module to 5.1.5, and will up the main controller to the latest stable at the weekend.. 

I think Bob Saunders is right.. I just added another schedule this morning, mainly because I'd unplugged for the school run and it would be the first time the charger was asleep prior to physically plugging in. So there is now a Disable prior to the Enable shed hey presto, the tiger kicked in

It is important to think about the timer chronologically and ensure there is a Disable and Enable at the right place. For example if you want the charge Monday to Friday from 8PM to 6AM. the Enable would be M,T,W,Th,F and the disable would be T,W,Th,F,Sa.


If you did both M,T,W,Th,F The Enable from Friday would not disable until Monday at 2AM


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@openevse I think what @Bob Saunders and I are saying is that chronological pairs of enables and disables do not work, whereas adding a disable before the start/stop pair does. I've only ever used an enable with a disabled on the same day, but I understand you premise.
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