[Ovmsdev] v2.5.4 call for testing

Wed Oct 16 13:11:22 HKT 2013

Jack,

> OVMS V2 TR2.5. The car is in the city with typically great reception, but it is parked in a parking garage, on the outside edge with a view.

The ACC#0 is intended - #0 means the location could not be found. If you don't specify a location number to the params command, it tries to find the acc location at the current co-ordinates. In your case, it couldn't find one (even though you had just created one with ACC HERE). Very strange. I can only think that the car location was 'jumping around' looking for gps lock.

> The app did show that the car was charging in range mode so that part works.  Just the SMS report was wrong. 

Yes, I found the bug and fixed already in github. Fix will make it to the 2.5.5 build.

> To follow up on the CHARGEBY command, I think the charge finished about two hours early.  I'm not positive I have the time set correctly and so I will look into that.

CHARGEBY is still buggy, and driving me crazy. I am sure that Tom's Charge Time Predictor function is working perfectly, but something in the way that ACC is calling it is getting the wrong results. If possible, after plugging in the car, try ACC STAT and it will tell you its prediction and the time it schedules to charge to meet that prediction (plus 30 mins safety margin).

I did find one possible reason last night (seems to be that if the car goes to sleep, the pilot signal indicator goes off even if plugged in and ready to charge, and ACC treated that as an unplug). Tom is helping me try to find the other possible causes of the problem.

> All in all I'd have to say you ROCK!  The charge to 50% was the perfect solution to the short commute but still want to plug in scenario. 

Thanks. This is going to be incredibly useful once I get the bugs worked out. The COOLDOWN is my favorite feature - when I get home, my car now cools itself down then charges to 80% before going to sleep for the night (literally - at 30C-35C ambient the car would never go to sleep before I started using cooldown). Homelink is also pretty cool - having the car automatically open your gate as you drive up, without having to press any buttons.

Regards, Mark.

On 16 Oct, 2013, at 12:34 pm, Jack West <jackduncanwest at gmail.com> wrote:

> A little more background.  
> 
> OVMS V2 TR2.5. The car is in the city with typically great reception, but it is parked in a parking garage, on the outside edge with a view.
> 
> The app did show that the car was charging in range mode so that part works.  Just the SMS report was wrong. 
> 
> It is interesting that I got the ACC #0 (not a typo) no ACC defined here- as I thought the ACC's are 1-4.  Perhaps I caused some bug to occur by trying to set the ACC PARAMS before the car was at the location and the ACC HERE was issued.  I did have some unexpected responses after that.  If you think that might be relevant I could send the transcript of commands I used and OVMS' response.
> 
> To follow up on the CHARGEBY command, I think the charge finished about two hours early.  I'm not positive I have the time set correctly and so I will look into that.
> 
> All in all I'd have to say you ROCK!  The charge to 50% was the perfect solution to the short commute but still want to plug in scenario. 
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> On Oct 15, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net> wrote:
> 
>> Jack,
>> 
>> Seems to be a bug in display of RANGE mode for ACC. I need to check what the mode number should be (as setting mode uses 0,1,3,4 but displaying mode uses 0,1,2,3 - which is why your range mode is being shown as performance).
>> 
>> I think the mode set is the correct one, and even though it says 'performance' it will actually be a range mode charge.
>> 
>> I'm not sure why your first 'ACC PARAMS' command did not find the location. The code looks ok and works for me. Maybe the GPS location is not locked or off by too much from the ACC location (car in a garage?).
>> 
>> Regards, Mark.
>> 
>> On 16 Oct, 2013, at 1:11 am, Jack West <jackduncanwest at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been trying this a bit.  
>>> 
>>> Me-ACC HERE
>>> OVMS-ACC #2 set
>>> Me-ACC PARAMS CHARGEBY 16:30 MODE RAN LIMIT 48
>>> OVMS-ACC #0 - No ACC defined here
>>> Me-ACC ENABLE 2
>>> OVMS-ACC enabled
>>> Me-ACC PARAMS 2
>>> OVMS-ACC#2 (lat/long) Enabled Mode:standard(0A)
>>> Me-ACC PARAMS 2 MODE RAN LIMIT 48 CHARGEBY 16:30
>>> OVMS-ACC#2 (lat/long) Enabled Charge by time 16:30:00 Mode:performance (48A)
>>> Me-ACC PARAMS 2 MODE RANGE
>>> (No response)
>>> Me-ACC PARAMS?
>>> OVMS-ACC#2 (lat/long) Enabled Charge by time 16:30:00 Mode: performance (48A)
>>> 
>>> The iPhone app shows the car charging in range mode at 48 amps.  
>>> 
>>> Jack
>>> 
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