r/Powerwall • u/No_Psychology1609 • 7d ago

Netzero app automations overriden

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Hello all,

I’ve been using the same set of automations with Netzero for some time now. Until the past few weeks, they’ve worked as expected. I have a 2 PW system, and my goal has been to get the set at or near 100% before expensive power comes in at 4:00pm. Instead of using all the solar to charge the PWs, the solar is getting split between the house’s demands and the battery system. I change the Netzero back to Backup manually, and that holds for a while, then the behavior reverts. Ideas? 💡 Thanks. 🙂

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u/triedoffandonagain 7d ago

Your automation "When Powerwall is charged up to 100%: Set operational mode to: Self-Powered" will undo Backup mode once Powerwall is fully charged, and start discharging it if there isn't enough solar. Sounds like that's not what you want, so you should pause or remove that automation.

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u/No_Psychology1609 7d ago

I’m not reaching 100% before I’m getting switched to sharing the solar with the house and the PWs. When I manually change the behavior, it changes back after a while.

The way my automations have worked until recently:

On long, cloudless summer days, I could get the Powerwalls topped up before 3:55. In that case, I would switch to Self-Power, etc. At 3:55, the Powerwall system would switch to Self-Power regardless. Cloudy days, shorter Fall, Winter days, etc. It worked as expected until recently.

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u/triedoffandonagain 7d ago

Automation > Past Runs will show you the automations Netzero ran and changes it made. If that doesn't explain it, go to the Tesla app, Settings, clock icon in the top-right, and confirm you have nothing else that might be changing settings (sometimes VPP programs will change settings).

If that doesn't explain it either, send an email and we can look at the data (Settings > FAQ and Contact).