Setting a schedule for a MSS310 plug

[davidwozabal]

Background: I have a contract with my power supplier where prices fluctuate hourly based on wholesale prices on the electricity exchange. I would therefore want to control certain devices (e.g., water heater) such that they switch on, when prices are low.

Intended solution: I would have to query next day's prices and then program the plugs with a corresponding schedule for the next day. Ideally, I want to connect to the device only once and then let the plugs execute the schedule on its own (without connecting every time I want to make a switch). It seems to me that the MSS310 plugs in principle support this functionality.

Question: Can such a function be implemented in the current version of the library? I only found methods to switch on/off instantaneously.

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[albertogeniola]

Hi!
Are you going to schedule this via python directly or are you going to use some sort of orchestrator, such as HomeAssistant?

Why wouldn't you implement this via python script/daemon running on the background?

[davidwozabal]

Hi, I was thinking about scheduling this directly from a Python script, which is periodically called. However, I cannot guarantee that the machine that runs the job will be up the whole day. Hence, I would like to submit a schedule once a day to the plug which stores the schedule and then executes it autonomously without any further interaction from the script.

If I am not mistaken, the hardware of the MSS310 supports such a thing, but the library doesn't.