BYD Seal, Ohme & Intelligent Octopus Go - computer says no
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Got my 2026 BYD Seal in October having had an MG 4 Trophy for the last 3 years. The thing simply doesn't work with Intelligent Octopus Go tariff and an Ohme charger, whereas the MG never skipped a beat.
It seems to be because the car goes into a deep sleep mode then by the time Octopus is providing the cheap tariff, the car cannot be woken up to charge.
Ohme support say to disable the tariff stuff and set the car to charge between 2330 and 0530 using the car screen controls. This does work, but those hours may not be the cheap rate from Octopus making the tariff a bit pointless.
I was told that Ohme Australia had a patch for the charger that would keep "waking up" the car by sending regular charge starts commands, but Ohme UK don't seem to know anything about it.
Maybe the only option is to move to EON who guarantee certain hours at a low rate?
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Seems a crap design from BYD on what is otherwise a very nice car so far
It seems to be because the car goes into a deep sleep mode then by the time Octopus is providing the cheap tariff, the car cannot be woken up to charge.
Ohme support say to disable the tariff stuff and set the car to charge between 2330 and 0530 using the car screen controls. This does work, but those hours may not be the cheap rate from Octopus making the tariff a bit pointless.
I was told that Ohme Australia had a patch for the charger that would keep "waking up" the car by sending regular charge starts commands, but Ohme UK don't seem to know anything about it.
Maybe the only option is to move to EON who guarantee certain hours at a low rate?
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Seems a crap design from BYD on what is otherwise a very nice car so far
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Ohme support say to disable the tariff stuff and set the car to charge between 2330 and 0530 using the car screen controls. This does work, but those hours may not be the cheap rate from Octopus making the tariff a bit pointless.
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from my understanding you are entitled to 6 hours cheap rate. If you set 2330-0530 you will get 6 hours at the cheap rate as those are the default times.
IO may, at times, give you the reduced rate at other times IF your car is plugged in. However you still only get a max of 6 hours in a 24hr period
Ohme support say to disable the tariff stuff and set the car to charge between 2330 and 0530 using the car screen controls. This does work, but those hours may not be the cheap rate from Octopus making the tariff a bit pointless.
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from my understanding you are entitled to 6 hours cheap rate. If you set 2330-0530 you will get 6 hours at the cheap rate as those are the default times.
IO may, at times, give you the reduced rate at other times IF your car is plugged in. However you still only get a max of 6 hours in a 24hr period
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