On 23/05/2025 at 17:51, Janer said:

Thanks all for your replies. Some helpful info here. We are looking at going with octopus but not sure if our SMETs1 smart meter is compatible. It has been added to the DCC database but seems Octopus are particular about which brand of SMETS1 smart meter you have 🙄

Just waiting to hear back from them if ours will work - otherwise we'll have to look elsewhere …

Thank you for the replies again

Did you manage to get on-board with Octopus or do you have 'the wrong sort of meter'?

6 hours ago, Steve153 said:

Thanks for the update.

What is your setup now, is the schedule set in the car or charger?

I just set a time based schedule in the skoda app to start charging at 11:35pm and finish at 5:25am

Octopus say they 'might' be able to connect to our smart meter but if not we'd have to get a new smart meter. So we decided it was a whole can of worms that could be a real problem and have stayed with our current supplier who can interact with our smart meter.

We got an Ohme home pro charger fitted by a local installer and will use the off-peak overnight rate using the My Skoda app to control it. Just need the car now to see if this all stacks up ! Could be a month or two before that happy day!

Thanks again for everyone’s input- much appreciated

14 hours ago, Mikeylorenzo said:

I just set a time based schedule in the skoda app to start charging at 11:35pm and finish at 5:25am

Hi. I’ve just got an Elroq 85 and Hypervolt charger. First time I tried a scheduled charge using the Hypervolt app to schedule it, it charged correctly. Last 2 nights though it won’t charge via the schedule. You mention you used the Škoda app to set a time based schedule. I don’t know if I’m going mad but I can’t see any settings in that app to set a schedule. Can you tell me where it is please? Thank you.

1 hour ago, Pob17 said:

Hi. I’ve just got an Elroq 85 and Hypervolt charger. First time I tried a scheduled charge using the Hypervolt app to schedule it, it charged correctly. Last 2 nights though it won’t charge via the schedule. You mention you used the Škoda app to set a time based schedule. I don’t know if I’m going mad but I can’t see any settings in that app to set a schedule. Can you tell me where it is please? Thank you.

Actually, ignore that. I worked out you needed to set home as a saved charging location first and then it all appeared.

Sorry, have only just seen this. Glad you managed to get it sorted.

Currently cannot get our new Elroq to charge at a scheduled time. Does charge immediately though. Ideally like most people want to have benefit of cheap charging overnight. We are with Octopus Go so have the hours from 00:30 much later than bedtime. I’m wondering if it’s to do with out BP Chargemaster charger or more likely the car since the charger works in immediate mode but not really a smart charge - no interface- . Just a case of the car switching to please charge me now mode , so to speak . Thoughts please …. As car so new picked up last week doubting anything like Fuse 3 issue. I’ve read . Thanks

Hi, have you set up a home location in the Skoda app?

On 19/06/2025 at 07:01, Pob17 said:

Hi. I’ve just got an Elroq 85 and Hypervolt charger. First time I tried a scheduled charge using the Hypervolt app to schedule it, it charged correctly. Last 2 nights though it won’t charge via the schedule. You mention you used the Škoda app to set a time based schedule. I don’t know if I’m going mad but I can’t see any settings in that app to set a schedule. Can you tell me where it is please? Thank you.

I just got my car yesterday so I am baffled by pretty much everything so far! However, I also have a Hypervolt charger so maybe you can help (I know you have since worked it out)? With my old car (KIA EV6) I set the car to be a dumb recipient and used Hypervolt to control everything and I have it set to charge 00.00 to 06.00. Following advice here I have set up a home location in the car and set the preferred charging period to the same. Should that work? Or should I now set Hypervolt to Plug and Charge and let the car decide when to start charging?

6 hours ago, Snakehips said:

I just got my car yesterday so I am baffled by pretty much everything so far! However, I also have a Hypervolt charger so maybe you can help (I know you have since worked it out)? With my old car (KIA EV6) I set the car to be a dumb recipient and used Hypervolt to control everything and I have it set to charge 00.00 to 06.00. Following advice here I have set up a home location in the car and set the preferred charging period to the same. Should that work? Or should I now set Hypervolt to Plug and Charge and let the car decide when to start charging?

We have Intelligent Octopus Go and we don't have a smart charger. Octopus communicate directly with the car and schedules at anytime to suit the grid loading, as long as the car is plugged in. When you plug the car in, the app just asks when you want it charged by and to what charge level (normal for us 80%) and then woks out the schedule from that info. First night didn't go too well as I had the car set on scheduled charge, so Octopus couldn't connect until the cat kicked in at 23.30. As far as they were concerned, it wasn't plugged in. The second day, I left the car set on "charge immediately". After about 10 minutes Octopus took over and scheduled 1 charge during the afternoon (at cheap rate) and a second charge in the early hours of the morning. Net result was car charged when we wanted.

Should get easier when I get used to it. Meantime, I have to ignore the in-house display, as I think it calculates the afternoon charge at 27p/kWh, rather than 7p. Hopefully make more sense when we get our first monthly bill since changing over from normal Octopus Go. 🤞🤞

On 18/06/2025 at 21:40, Janer said:

Octopus say they 'might' be able to connect to our smart meter but if not we'd have to get a new smart meter. So we decided it was a whole can of worms that could be a real problem and have stayed with our current supplier who can interact with our smart meter.

We got an Ohme home pro charger fitted by a local installer and will use the off-peak overnight rate using the My Skoda app to control it. Just need the car now to see if this all stacks up ! Could be a month or two before that happy day!

Thanks again for everyone’s input- much appreciated

I also have an Ohme home charger, and it is much easier to enter your tariff in the ohme app, then let ohme app start the charge just after midnight. With the car the only thing is decide if you want 100% battery rather than 80% default. Ohme actually also allows you to add a set percentage top up too.

If you try and add more than about 52kw/h the charger will also use some daytime charge. (because 7 hours x 7.4-7.6kw is its overnight limit).

When my Ohme charger was installed, the installer included a data cable back to the meter because there is patchy wifi and weak mobile signals on front drive

On 05/07/2025 at 22:15, Mikeylorenzo said:

Hi, have you set up a home location in the Skoda app?

Sorry, yes did that but still could not get schedule time to start. Working on principle that will simply charge car with full 5 hour slot and having charge % down below half by starting at 10pm.

Thanks for the posting about Intelligent Octopus Go….. this was definitely not the case back at end of May when we ordered the car and have had trouble charging on scheduled time but will try this now

A bit of a pfaff and in the end not sure what I did but right now the car is charging via the Octopus app using Intelligent Octopus Go…. A schedule set up by octopus to get us to 80% using the 6 hours of cheap time plus a couple of other hours before than at Octopus’ choosing …. Thanks for the heads up . The technology is baffling and hopefully all goes well as car down to 2%

Just in case anyone interested the charger is a bp chargemaster that is 7 years old !

Wish I had read this thread before, as have been in dealer discussing getting an Elroq. There is an offer of 0% interest and a free home charger. No idea of make, but must be “approved”, if part of their deal (I hope!). Will find out more, if I go ahead.

I think Škoda UK are currently partnering with Ohme (this may be part of a deal with also taking a new dual fuel contract with OVO, check with dealer)?

Note that the Ohme chargers require a cellular connection and the SIM cost is free for the first three years only. If you don’t have a good signal at home then you may want to look at WiFi or Ethernet connected devices…