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Clashing between Charge Anytime and My BMW App


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Good Morning,

 

I’ve recently added Charge Anytime to our account, however as our charger (Zappi v2) isn’t compatible, I’ve gone down the route of linking the Charge Anytime app directly with the car itself (BMW i4), which is where the problems have started.

 

So to provide context, before we added Charge Anytime, I was using the My BMW app to control the charging, preconditioning and vehicle preferences. In my case I had a schedule set up, so the car would precondition the batteries and warm the cabin prior to departure, however since the Ovo app ‘took over’, the preconditioning functionality has gone haywire.

 

It appears that the schedule I had in place (Mon-Fri 7am departure), keeps being replaced with bizarre times of the day and night (I had a random 3am departure scheduled the other night) and no matter how many times I go back to reset, it keeps happening.

 

Somehow the Ovo app is clashing with the manufacturers app and essentially rendering the preconditioning functionality useless, which is a problem. If the Ovo app does need to be the dominant app for controlling the car, it needs more functionality. Did any issues arise during testing, Ovo? I’d be interested to know.

 

Has anyone else experienced anything like this yet? If this continues I’ll probably uninstall it, as in my opinion, essential vehicle functions shouldn’t be compromised as a trade off for having a cheaper electricity rate to charge your car.

 

Any help and advice would be appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Can you not set the preconditioning in the Charge Anytime app and disable the schedules in the vehicle app? The Ohme charger app allows you to do this and it seems to be working for me.

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We are also having this problem and the car hasn’t charged for the remainder of the night now. We have removed all the departure schedules and setting etc but they still keep resetting them self. 

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Can you not set the preconditioning in the Charge Anytime app and disable the schedules in the vehicle app? The Ohme charger app allows you to do this and it seems to be working for me.

 

Unfortunately not. The Charge Anytime app doesn’t appear to have that depth of functionality. You’re probably ok with the Ohme charger, as that’s one of the two supported brands, whereas the Zappi isn’t. I assume you’ve linked Charge Anytime to your charger rather than your car?

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That’s a bummer. Charge anytime is linked to Ohme charger in my case.

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We are also having this problem and the car hasn’t charged for the remainder of the night now. We have removed all the departure schedules and setting etc but they still keep resetting them self. 


Yes it’s very frustrating. I’m going to try starting the pre-conditioning manually from the BMW app and see if that makes a difference, rather than using the schedule. I’ll feed back once I’ve tried it.

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Thanks. We’re charging it using a public charger to see if it resets everything so will let you know too!

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Charged fine on public charger but still pausing after exactly 10 minutes at home. Tried another vehicle and it charges fine so we know it’s definitely the OVO app causing the problem.

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Hi @RM84 @KC1986 and thank you for coming together hear to flag this. 

 

I’m told that we've found that for some vehicles, including BMW & MINI, our Charge Anytime smart charging control automatically overwrites any existing pre-conditioning schedules.


Our technical analysts are working hard to try and rectify the issue, but it might take some time given how our smart charging control currently operates.

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Thanks for confirming @Tim_OVO hopefully we don’t have to wait too long.

 

I tried some ‘on the day’ pre-conditioning’ @KC1986 with the car plugged in and that worked ok. It just seems to be the scheduling that has problems. Hopefully OVO can rectify this in the near future.

I have just taken delivery of a Tesla and am about to try the same things that have been discussed here. I suspect it will be the same as the BMW case above but will let you know. 
I am using Charge Anytime connected directly to a Model Y as I have a Zappi 2 that’s not compatible!

Ok…couldn’t set a reasonable departure time. Kept trying to set a departure time of 2am.

 

not the end of the world for me I guess ..but hoping you guys at OVO can figure something out.

 

thanks 

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Manually precondition using the Tesla app 30 mins before departure?

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