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March 4, 2023
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Charge Anytime says my car is not at home when it is!

  • March 4, 2023
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I’ve set up Charge Anytime account and put my house on the map during set up. My car is on the drive charging now but app is saying it is not at home (so it charges as soon as I plug in).

There are no settings option in the app to adjust things like my location??

Anything I can do?

Best answer by Blastoise186

 

Updated on 27/07/25 by Abby_OVO

Please contact the Charge Anytime team, you can do this by:

 

  • Calling 0330 175 9678 (Option 1 new customers/option 2 existing customers) 

  • Email via chargeanytime@ovo.com

  • Webchat, click the link then the green chat icon at the bottom right of the page

 

After you’ve spoken with the team, you should get a message to say they will send a prompt to the app to reset home address. When you open the app again it should prompt you to set your home location. 

 

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Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
March 4, 2023

 

Updated on 27/07/25 by Abby_OVO

Please contact the Charge Anytime team, you can do this by:

 

  • Calling 0330 175 9678 (Option 1 new customers/option 2 existing customers) 

  • Email via chargeanytime@ovo.com

  • Webchat, click the link then the green chat icon at the bottom right of the page

 

After you’ve spoken with the team, you should get a message to say they will send a prompt to the app to reset home address. When you open the app again it should prompt you to set your home location. 

 

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Tim_OVO
OVO Staff
OVO Forum Legend
March 6, 2023

Sounds like you might want to have a word with the Smart Home Team for this one. Could you send them an email? smarthome@ovoenergy.com .

They can fix this for you.

 

Good advice above @Gary Alford ^^^

 

In the meantime I’ll also raise this with the team. 

 

Gary can you keep us updated on this in case others are affected? 

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Rank 3
March 6, 2023

I have raised it with support via email and await response. I suspect I will need to delete my account and set it up again as I incorrectly set my home address on the map by a few houses (it is tricky dragging the blob to the correct spot on a vague map. Shame it cannot be edited in the app after setting up as there are no options to change settings other than ‘% charge’ and ‘ready by’.

Blastoise186
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Super User
March 6, 2023

Support can probably fix that one from their end. :)

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Rank 3
March 6, 2023

Hope so, still waiting! Response from support today and for some reason they presumed I was using a 3 pin plug and therefore that is why not working and they cannot help!

I just need to have another go on the map that appears during setup!

I’ll give it a couple more days to see if any further response then try deleting the account and setting up a new one?

Tim_OVO
OVO Staff
OVO Forum Legend
March 7, 2023

Was that to smarthome@ovoenergy.com@Gary Alford

 

If it was them, I’ll raise it on your behalf. Just quickly, is your forum email address the same one as your OVO account? 

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Rank 3
March 7, 2023

Thanks Tim, I’ve sent you a message with all my account details. Would appreciate your help as no reply yet from customer support at the above email address apart from a message yesterday to say they don’t support 3 pin plugs which isn’t relevant to me, I did reply to explain I’m using a dedicated EV charger, I know they may be very busy though.

Rank 3
March 8, 2023

Just to update the support team came through. They remotely sent a prompt at opening the app to reset my home address and all seems to be working perfectly now! Car currently plugged in, at home, delayed charge til 10pm set by app.

With regards to the map it was tricky to set the home. It doesn’t show any houses on my road and I live on a long straight road. When I reset the home address I used google maps satellite view to find my house then aligned the in-app map to exactly my driveway location!!

Newcomer
April 9, 2025

Hi 

 

Car is showing not at home yet it's sat on my drive. 

 

Evec Charger set to manual mode so it automatically charges when plugged in 

 

Have used the ovo anytime app before but now suggests car is not there

 

Have previously set the property address, dropped pin in map etc 

 

Last night this changed to car not being there 

 

Thanks all

K

 

Emmanuelle_OVO
Retired Moderator
Retired Moderator
April 9, 2025

Hey ​@Kris Keogh 

I’m sorry to hear this. I’d advise getting in touch with the team. 
 

 

How to get in contact with the Charge Anytime team

  • Charge Anytime - 0330 175 9678 (Option 1 new customers/option 2 existing customers) 

chargeanytime@ovo.com

Please keep us posted with how you get on.

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