Scheduled charging unreliable

[Alerion]

Quick question as this will be my first EV: Can you not just schedule charging via a smart level 2 charger and just ignore the vehicle settings?

 

[levsha]

Quick question as this will be my first EV: Can you not just schedule charging via a smart level 2 charger and just ignore the vehicle settings?

Looks like it doesn't work well (or not at all) with Lucid Air: if you leave the car connected to the charger that doesn't allow charge at that time, then the car doesn't start charging, goes into deep sleep eventually, and then, when the charger switches to "you can charge now" the car doesn't detect this as it is in the deep sleep mode and doesn't wake up on charger changing the state.
The mitigation seems to be to manually wake up the car shortly after scheduled charging starts on the charger: using the phone app or an api automation.

 

[Alerion]

Looks like it doesn't work well (or not at all) with Lucid Air: if you leave the car connected to the charger that doesn't allow charge at that time, then the car doesn't start charging, goes into deep sleep eventually, and then, when the charger switches to "you can charge now" the car doesn't detect this as it is in the deep sleep mode and doesn't wake up on charger changing the state.
The mitigation seems to be to manually wake up the car shortly after scheduled charging starts on the charger: using the phone app or an api automation.

Geez, you’d think they would fix issues like this timely when it is an issue that people deal with daily. Guess not

 

[pyle112]

Looks like it doesn't work well (or not at all) with Lucid Air: if you leave the car connected to the charger that doesn't allow charge at that time, then the car doesn't start charging, goes into deep sleep eventually, and then, when the charger switches to "you can charge now" the car doesn't detect this as it is in the deep sleep mode and doesn't wake up on charger changing the state.
The mitigation seems to be to manually wake up the car shortly after scheduled charging starts on the charger: using the phone app or an api automation.

Any suggestions on an automation for an android? Haven't tried using automations before on my Samsung.

 

[DeaneG]

Any suggestions on an automation for an android? Haven't tried using automations before on my Samsung.

If you can, it's easier to just use the car's scheduled charging feature, which usually works for most people. Lucid has said they are working on improving the car's scheduled charging operation via a software update. So far they haven't discussed any specifics or a timeline, so it could be quite a while coming.

 

[pyle112]

If you can, it's much easier to just use the car's scheduled charging feature, which usually works for most people. Lucid has said they are working on improving the car's scheduled charging operation via a software update. So far they haven't discussed any specifics or a timeline.

Problem is my other car (Volvo) does not have vehicle based scheduling. Additionally while the lucid has a start time it does not have a stop time, so it continues charging outside my time of use.

 

[levsha]

Any suggestions on an automation for an android? Haven't tried using automations before on my Samsung.

I'm only aware of HomeAssistant based automation.

 

[pyle112]

I'm only aware of HomeAssistant based automation.

I think I can use Google home to run the automation. Thanks! Hopefully this is a temporary work around.

 

[DeaneG]

I think I can use Google home to run the automation...

I'd be interested in what you did using Google Home, if you find an arrangement that works.

 

[borski]

I'm only aware of HomeAssistant based automation.

You should also be able to use Apple
Shortcuts and Google’s equivalent; @joec set up a few Apple shortcuts in the past.

 

[pyle112]

I'd be interested in what you did using Google Home, if you find an arrangement that works.

In Google home I created a custom automation "open lucid app" and scheduled it to run at midnight every day. I'll see if it works tonight, but I'm not sure if it can run the automation on my phone unfortunately.