<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It is the car. This setting (ms_v_charge_timerstart) is paired with ms_v_charge_timermode to indicate the car is in timer mode (ie; will start charging at a specific time of day, rather than immediately on plug-in).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For car’s that don’t have charge timers, we could directly support them within OVMS. Not too hard to do (if ms_v_charge_timermode AND ms_v_charge_pilot AND ms_v_charge_timerstart is now, then start charge). But, we would need a command to be able to remotely set this timer mode.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards, Mark.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jan 2018, at 6:00 AM, Greg D. <<a href="mailto:gregd2350@gmail.com" class="">gregd2350@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    Is it the car or the OVMS system that actually starts the charge? 
    Just wondering if we have a car dependency here.<br class="">
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    p.s. to Geir...  It's kind of fitting that an email about time would
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Geir Øyvind Vælidalo wrote:<br class="">
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      Number of minutes after midnight (UTC) would be great.
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      <div class="">Best regards,</div>
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            <div class="">22. jan. 2018 kl. 03:51 skrev Mark
              Webb-Johnson <<a href="mailto:mark@webb-johnson.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">mark@webb-johnson.net</a>>:</div>
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                have it as a Tesla Roadster message:
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                  <div class=""><font class="" face="Andale Mono"><span style="font-size: 18px;" class="">(gmthour*60)-1,
                        with special case midnight gmthour=24</span></font></div>
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                    <div class=""><font class="" face="Andale Mono"><span style="font-size: 18px;" class="">N.B.
                          Empirical values for TimerLSB and TimerMSB (a
                          GMT+0800 car in Hong Kong) are:</span></font></div>
                    <div class=""><font class="" face="Andale Mono"><span style="font-size: 18px;" class="">1439
                          (0x059F) for midnight GMT, 59 (0x003B) for 1am
                          GMT, up to 1379 (0x0563) for 11pm GMT.</span></font></div>
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                  <div class="">Kind of ugly, and never properly
                    declared/used. It is sent back to the server/apps,
                    but I don’t think it was ever used.</div>
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                  <div class="">I’m happy for it to be the number of
                    minutes after midnight (UTC) when timed charge
                    should start.</div>
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                  <div class="">Regards, Mark.</div>
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                      <div class="">On 21 Jan 2018, at 8:41 PM, Geir
                        Øyvind Vælidalo <<a href="mailto:geir@validalo.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">geir@validalo.net</a>>
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                          <div class=""><span id="x-apple-selection:end" class=""></span>What is the format
                            of ms_v_charge_timerstart? I can’t find any
                            info about it anywhere...</div>
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                          <div class="">Best regards,</div>
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