Correct way to end charging at 04:30 AM

[nomandera]

Like many my provider offers cheap energy overnight (between 00:30 and 04:30).

I would like to remotely instruct my car to stop charging at 04:30 to reduce my costs.

I assume the correct way to do this is to make an API call exactly at this time.

Can anyone assist with the constructing an optimized call.?

I use the "official" docker container which has curl available and cron.d although without ps its not obvious whats running.

[pinkycz]

Check the docs, you should be able to set this up easily psa_car_controller/docs/psacc_api.md at master · flobz/psa_car_controller <https://github.com/flobz/psa_car_controller/blob/master/docs/psacc_api.md> http://localhost:5000/charge_control?vin=YOURVIN&percentage=80&hour=4&minute=30 Charge max to 80% and stop at 4.30am? ne 18. 1. 2026 v 12:38 odesílatel nomandera ***@***.***> napsal:

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Like many my provider offers cheap energy overnight (between 00:30 and 04:30). I would like to remotely instruct my car to stop charging at 04:30 to reduce my costs. I assume the correct way to do this is to make an API call exactly at this time. Can anyone assist with the constructing an optimized call.? I use the "official" docker container which has curl available and cron.d although without ps its not obvious whats running. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1164>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BBGNARIIQRUGPXWDS3P7JWT4HN5ELAVCNFSM6AAAAACSCGEL56VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ERDJONRXK43TNFXW4OZZGM2TSMJZGE> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[nomandera]

That is an excellent resource I didn't know about. Let me experiment and feed back how I get on.

[nomandera]

I am not having much success with this. Setting the parameters is trivial but I have yet to see it actually work and I am beginning to think it is because I live in a poor cell reception zone.

Is there any way I can confirm this theory directly?

Logging is full of period entries:

2026-01-21 04:25:39,251 :: INFO :: Connected with result code {'session present': 0}
2026-01-21 04:25:39,251 :: INFO :: subscribe to psa/RemoteServices/to/cid/AC-redacted/#
2026-01-21 04:25:39,252 :: INFO :: subscribe to psa/RemoteServices/events/MPHRTServices/redacted
2026-01-21 04:25:39,252 :: WARNING :: Disconnected with result code 5
2026-01-21 04:25:39,252 :: WARNING :: The connection was refused.

I am not clear if this refusal is from this container or the remote car service/api?

[nomandera]

Just to feed back some more. This seems to be correct method but simply does not work for me.

I am now looking at ways now to query the car to ensure its awake and charging, stop, query again and repeat a sane number of times until successful. I suspect this is what happens with this app as well but maybe its just not robust enough for my poor comms.

[Hoppi74]

Check the docs, you should be able to set this up easily psa_car_controller/docs/psacc_api.md at master · flobz/psa_car_controller https://github.com/flobz/psa_car_controller/blob/master/docs/psacc_api.md http://localhost:5000/charge_control?vin=YOURVIN&percentage=80&hour=4&minute=30 Charge max to 80% and stop at 4.30am?

How often do I have to set this?
Only once, or each time I want to load?

[pinkycz]

You can use parameter -d to run psacc in debug mode... when you click on the cogwheel icon, you get detailed info of the comms happening. It is checking periodically and when conditions are met, it will stop charging. This is of course subject to stellantis servers working as they should, which is not always the case and, as you mentioned yourself, the car being in good GSM coverage area, so its internal modem can actually provide the info to Stellantis servers, thus to psacc. Running it in debug will show you how frequent the updates are. On my end, I generally see updates fetched by psacc every two minutes. Hope this helps ne 8. 2. 2026 v 9:11 odesílatel nomandera ***@***.***> napsal:

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Just to feed back some more. This seems to be correct method but simply does not work for me. I am now looking at ways now to query the car to ensure its awake and charging, stop, query again and repeat a sane number of times until successful. I suspect this is what happens with this app as well but maybe its just not robust enough for my poor comms. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1164 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BBGNARKX5CZ7EW62QOF4YDT4K34VJAVCNFSM6AAAAACSCGEL56VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTKNZTGI2TEOA> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[nomandera]

Thanks for the advice. I will carve out some time and put some effort into the soon to see if I can get this working once and for all.

[pinkycz]

You set this up only once, it saves required thresholds to config file. You can query what your current settings are a any time using just http://localhost:5000/charge_control?vin=YOURVIN <http://localhost:5000/charge_control?vin=YOURVIN&percentage=80&hour=4&minute=30> which will return a json dataset with all the values your container actually uses at the moment. čt 12. 2. 2026 v 9:54 odesílatel Hoppi74 ***@***.***> napsal:

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Check the docs, you should be able to set this up easily psa_car_controller/docs/psacc_api.md at master · flobz/psa_car_controller https://github.com/flobz/psa_car_controller/blob/master/docs/psacc_api.md http://localhost:5000/charge_control?vin=YOURVIN&percentage=80&hour=4&minute=30 Charge max to 80% and stop at 4.30am? How often do I have to set this? Only once, or each time I want to load? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1164 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BBGNARI3WSITWZOAOHZNEYT4LREVVAVCNFSM6AAAAACSCGEL56VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTKNZYGA4TEMI> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>