The Tesla software doesn't support time of charging in a way that is useful to me. I need to be able to set two peak rate time windows during which the car should not charge, and the Tesla software simply can't handle this.
Are there any third party apps that handle this properly? Something I can run under Android, or even Windows? Heck, a web based tool would be fine as well.
Here's an example that happened to me when the Tesla was completely unable to support off-peak charging.
The peak window was 3 to 7pm, and I arrived home at 2pm. I wanted to go back out at 9 pm and needed to charge the car as much as possible. So it should start charging right away, stop charging at 3pm, restart charging at 7pm. Then I would have significant charge on the car at 9pm when I was ready to leave. Tesla can't do this, not even close.
In general use, this would let me leave the car connected, and just have it charge anytime it can, off-peak, and I wouldn't need to give it much thought, just remember to plug it in.
My utility doesn't have special meters, or any other means of enforcing off-peak charging. They don't measure my charging in any way. They simply give a small discount on the bill, in exchange for my promise to not charge during peak times. So I want to honor that promise, and the Tesla software is woefully inadequate for that.
BTW, I just set up the Charge Stats for my utility and without a doubt, it is the most difficult to use software I've ever seen. It took me some time just to figure out how to enter a price, not to mention the general slowness and clumsiness of that entire interface. You might think you just put the cursor where you want to type digits, but the Tesla software doesn't work that way. WTF?
Are there any third party apps that handle this properly? Something I can run under Android, or even Windows? Heck, a web based tool would be fine as well.
Here's an example that happened to me when the Tesla was completely unable to support off-peak charging.
The peak window was 3 to 7pm, and I arrived home at 2pm. I wanted to go back out at 9 pm and needed to charge the car as much as possible. So it should start charging right away, stop charging at 3pm, restart charging at 7pm. Then I would have significant charge on the car at 9pm when I was ready to leave. Tesla can't do this, not even close.
In general use, this would let me leave the car connected, and just have it charge anytime it can, off-peak, and I wouldn't need to give it much thought, just remember to plug it in.
My utility doesn't have special meters, or any other means of enforcing off-peak charging. They don't measure my charging in any way. They simply give a small discount on the bill, in exchange for my promise to not charge during peak times. So I want to honor that promise, and the Tesla software is woefully inadequate for that.
BTW, I just set up the Charge Stats for my utility and without a doubt, it is the most difficult to use software I've ever seen. It took me some time just to figure out how to enter a price, not to mention the general slowness and clumsiness of that entire interface. You might think you just put the cursor where you want to type digits, but the Tesla software doesn't work that way. WTF?