Intelligent Octopus and Cupra
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:51 am
Although when trying to sign up for Intelligent Octopus while following their normal “Sign Up Now” link replies with “not yet integrated” it appears they have a beta third party integration.
Yesterday morning I found Cupra (beta) in the Octopus app and am now being switched to Intelligent Octopus (IO). The test charge through IO was successful.
The process was as follows:
1. You must be an Octopus customer with a suitable smart meter.
2. You must be signed up to the My Cupra app and have the car linked.
3. You must have and be registered to the Octopus app.
4. In the Octopus app on the Home Screen click the link to car charging. I can’t quite remember what it states, something like Super cheap charging.
5. Follow the whole process using the link to car type, not charger, and choose the Cupra then My Cupra choices.
6. This will then take you through the process to link Octopus to My Cupra using their 3rd party integration.
My process has started and I have been successful with getting the Octopus App to take over the charging (it is easy to suspend their control by clicking the icon top left of the screen-> Devices -> Intelligent Octopus -> scroll to bottom and turn off Smart Charging).
As yet my Tariff switch has not shown up on my account, so I have suspended smart charging until it does, in case it chooses to charge outside my current Octopus Go window.
One catch with the whole provision is that with smart charging active, Octopus must stop the charge after the car is plugged in and they say this could take upto 30 minutes (this is how frequently the Octopus app checks in with the car - to prevent keeping it out of sleep too much). During this period the car will be charging (probably at peak rate). This means on average (for a 7kw charger) there will be 15 minutes of peak rate charging every time the car is plugged in costing 58p extra ((43.37-10)p x 7 x 0.25kwh). Over one year this amounts to £210.
I am trying to find work arounds to get the Octopus App to stop the charge sooner after plugging in. The methods I am trying are:
1. Immediately after plugging in go to My Cupra app and click “Stop” button on the charging screen. This does stop the charge but I’m yet to find out if Octopus can then restart it from their app at the next scheduled window.
2. Immediately after plugging in go to Octopus app and click “Bump Charge”. Then wait a few seconds and cancel the Bump Charge. The idea here is that the Octopus app might try to communicate with the car immediately rather than wait for the next scheduled wake time. This one has not been promising, but I will be continuing to try it to see how long it takes for the Octopus app to stop the charge straight after plugging in using the bump on off method.
Any thoughts?
Yesterday morning I found Cupra (beta) in the Octopus app and am now being switched to Intelligent Octopus (IO). The test charge through IO was successful.
The process was as follows:
1. You must be an Octopus customer with a suitable smart meter.
2. You must be signed up to the My Cupra app and have the car linked.
3. You must have and be registered to the Octopus app.
4. In the Octopus app on the Home Screen click the link to car charging. I can’t quite remember what it states, something like Super cheap charging.
5. Follow the whole process using the link to car type, not charger, and choose the Cupra then My Cupra choices.
6. This will then take you through the process to link Octopus to My Cupra using their 3rd party integration.
My process has started and I have been successful with getting the Octopus App to take over the charging (it is easy to suspend their control by clicking the icon top left of the screen-> Devices -> Intelligent Octopus -> scroll to bottom and turn off Smart Charging).
As yet my Tariff switch has not shown up on my account, so I have suspended smart charging until it does, in case it chooses to charge outside my current Octopus Go window.
One catch with the whole provision is that with smart charging active, Octopus must stop the charge after the car is plugged in and they say this could take upto 30 minutes (this is how frequently the Octopus app checks in with the car - to prevent keeping it out of sleep too much). During this period the car will be charging (probably at peak rate). This means on average (for a 7kw charger) there will be 15 minutes of peak rate charging every time the car is plugged in costing 58p extra ((43.37-10)p x 7 x 0.25kwh). Over one year this amounts to £210.
I am trying to find work arounds to get the Octopus App to stop the charge sooner after plugging in. The methods I am trying are:
1. Immediately after plugging in go to My Cupra app and click “Stop” button on the charging screen. This does stop the charge but I’m yet to find out if Octopus can then restart it from their app at the next scheduled window.
2. Immediately after plugging in go to Octopus app and click “Bump Charge”. Then wait a few seconds and cancel the Bump Charge. The idea here is that the Octopus app might try to communicate with the car immediately rather than wait for the next scheduled wake time. This one has not been promising, but I will be continuing to try it to see how long it takes for the Octopus app to stop the charge straight after plugging in using the bump on off method.
Any thoughts?