Ability to schedule full discharge of battery

[j-a-r-o-d]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

From 01 May, it will no longer be financially viable or beneficial on Intelligent Octopus Go (variable) to force discharge the battery before 23h30.

However, LFP batteries benefit from frequent cycling so it would be nice to schedule a full discharge on a schedule eg. once a week.

Describe the solution you'd like

The ability to schedule a full discharge of the battery before 23h30, much like you can by setting the metric_battery_cycle to 0 manually.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Set metric_battery_cycle to 0 manually but it requires remembering to do so.

Additional context

Someone has implemented this functionally outside of PredBat as shown here

[al090187]

I also would like this option.

[gcoan]

could you create an automation to set the metric battery cycle to 0 once a week, and then set it back sometime overnight that night?

Alternatively your automation can set an export rate override or a manual force export to get predbat to do what you want

[j-a-r-o-d]

could you create an automation to set the metric battery cycle to 0 once a week, and then set it back sometime overnight that night?

Alternatively your automation can set an export rate override or a manual force export to get predbat to do what you want

Yeah of course, but selfishly it's a whole lot easier for it to be available within a single ecosystem as it's one less thing for me to have to manage.