Stopping the inverter from exporting/powering the house temporarily - number.lxb_battery_lxb_on_grid_cut_off_soc?

[thomaswwp]

I am looking for a clean way to temporarily stop my battery from discharging*.

Is there an "official" way? The best way I have found is to set number.lxb_battery_lxb_on_grid_cut_off_soc to 90% temporarily. The issue with that is that he integration as written has a minimum number.lxb_battery_lxb_on_grid_cut_off_soc of 10 and my batteries are designed (and sold!) to go way lower. I can change the entity_descriptions/number_types.py file but that will not survive updates of course.

Is there a better way?
Should I raise this as an issue?

Thanks for this integration! I was on the old luxpower one for years and moved over a few months ago and it has worked flawlessly.

Unrelated information but you might be interested.

• my installers took no account for my electric car, which the battery will happily attempt to charge - don't ask. My tariff (Octopus Intelligent Go) controls charging the car and with the Octopus plugin I can tell the batteries to charge when the car charges if Intelligent Dispatching is ON. This is fine. But sometimes the car charges when there appears to be no command from Octopus. In that circumstance I want to stop the battery from discharging in to the car. This is a kind of belt and braces on top of telling the car to stop...

[ivanfmartinez]

If you normally did not charge from grid the best option that I found is

• set ac charge power to lower value like 0.1 (one time set)
• use quick charge and control how long it will be "charging", when charging it will not discharge when in on-grid mode

The tear of inverter by writing data to it is not clear, quick charge is on memory only option.

To stop discharging you should use higher values on the on-grid-cut-off not lower.

If you can put the value lower than 10 on the web management then you should create an issue confirming this to be changed on the integration, most of the parameters are defined from Luxpower docs, but there are some differences from from is written in docs and what really happens on the inverters.

[thomaswwp]

I can't have solar so I charge on very cheap night rates - it is a simple system - charge at night, drive the house by day.

To stop discharging you should use higher values on the on-grid-cut-off not lower.
Yes, that is what I do. It is the setting to lower after stopping battery output that I can't do.

set ac charge power to lower value like 0.1 (one time set)
AC Charge Power sounds to me like a charging (power in) setting? Would that stop the battery powering the house?

I will make an issue. Thank you.