Hypervolt Home 3 Pro and the Hypervolt Home 3.0 are now fully compatible with Charge Anytime

Hi,

Can’t say that I’ve fully tested this - not enough solar yet, but the way my system is set up (by OVO) seems to work mostly the way I want it.

The Hypervolt seems to take electricity straight from the meter junction and doesn’t go through the main consumer fuse box where the solar and battery are connected . If I look at the app for the battery which measures load, PV and battery state of charge I don’t see any figures for the EV charger. I’ve not tried to use the Hypervolt and solar to charge the battery, so don’t know if this function works .

I will keep an eye on it, but for the moment I don’t think the battery gets drained to charge the car.

colin

Sorry to reply to my own comment, but pretty sure it’s working as described above. Kicked off a charge yesterday which started at 10pm, didn’t touch the battery.

Hi ​@Colingray83 that’s really interesting, thanks for letting us know! If you could keep us updated we’d appreciate it 😁

Cheers!

Hi,

so was a nice sunny day today and using Hypervolt was using solar to charge the car. Now whilst both the OVO app and the Hypervolt app tell you they’re using solar, it doesn’t seem to be recorded by either app as such. In fact, the OVO app marks it down as Smart Charge, this really should be marked as solar.

will need to check the OVO energy app tomorrow to see how it was recorded, ie have I been charged for the power or receiving rebate that I shouldn’t be getting.

colin

Thanks ​@Colingray83 for the update, I’ll wait to hear back from you about this - if anything’s wrong I’ll feed back to our Product teams.

Cheers,

Ben

Hi ​@Ben_OVO 

in the OVO energy app, no electricity was being taken from the grid as expected during the day as it was really sunny. However in the Charge Anytime app it’s showing as a Smart Charge - from the data shown it’s not possible to tell that this came from solar energy. The same is true in the Hypervolt app.

if this is the data OVO are using, I might be given a rebate against electricity I haven’t actually taken from the grid. Might be worth an investigation.

colin

Morning ​@Colingray83,

Thanks again for your detailed updates - much appreciated. I’m going to pass this up the chain within the Charge Anytime team. I’ll get back to you as soon as I have any news!

Cheers 😁

​@Colingray83 the Charge Anytime team may need to raise an internal ticket for this one. They’ve asked if you’d mind emailing them directly if that’s ok? Their email address is ovocharge@ovo.com.

Hi,

update from the Charge Anytime team. 
 

The app doesn’t currently separate solar and grid charging, everything will show up as a Smart Charge.

there is some back end processing to ensure you don’t get charged and/or receive credit for non Anytime charging.

colin.

Hi ​@Colingray83, I hope you had a good weekend.

Thanks for this really useful update - very helpful to know, and I’m glad we got some answers that show there was nothing concerning going on! 

Cheers,

Ben