TARIFF-10: configuring a price provider is what fetches prices
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amain() started the background tariff refresh only when arbitrage_enabled was
on, and that option ships false. run_tariff_refresh is the only caller of
resolve_tariff(), which is the only caller of price_history.carry() - so on a
shipped install with a price provider configured nothing was ever fetched: no
plan resolved, /data/price_history.json never created, the Price history status
row reading `empty` for the life of the install, and TARIFF-09's short-horizon
warning unable to fire because there was no fetch to warn about. Measured over
a 40 h two-instance soak on one feed: 0 requests and `present: false` across all
802 samples, against a resolved 132-point plan on the instance with arbitrage
armed.

git log -S puts the refresh task, its arbitrage.enabled() guard AND the DOCS.md
sentence saying a configured provider still fetches in the same commit - OPT-04,
bdd7f18; config.yaml has carried the claim since TARIFF-02, 852fc7c. The prose
and the code disagreed from the moment both existed and nothing compared them.
config.yaml and both translations additionally carried a claim that had rotted
the other way - "nothing consumes the price series yet", untrue since OPT-04
shipped the consumer. All four surfaces now say what the add-on does, and a
check pairs DOCS against the DRIVEN behaviour so they cannot drift again.

The gate is tariff_refresh_wanted() = provider_configured(opts) or
arbitrage.enabled(opts), and the `or` is a STRICT WIDENING: every configuration
that started the task before still starts it. The second term is not there for
symmetry. price_provider: off + a static_profile + arbitrage_enabled: true is a
configuration validate.py explicitly ACCEPTS and it trades - measured, at
cycle_cost_threshold_eur 0.05 on a 0.20/0.284 day/night profile,
ARBITRAGE_CHARGE -5000 W. Gating on the provider alone would leave that site's
tariff_plan at None forever and answer "no tariff plan has been resolved yet" on
every cycle, silently disarming a strategy the UI says is running.

Nothing acquires a periodic HTTPS call. With price_provider off, resolve_tariff()
answers out of the static profile without opening a socket (driven and counted:
0 requests), and the true shipped default - no provider, no trading - starts no
task at all. What decides whether a request leaves the machine is price_provider
and only that. The literal reading of the ticket's AC2 - drop the `or` - is one
token and is recorded in DECISIONS §3 with what it costs, for the owner.

AND NOTHING TRADES THAT DID NOT TRADE BEFORE. cycle()'s
`if arbitrage.enabled(self.o):` is untouched, and that is graded directly rather
than inferred from the gate having moved: Controller.cycle() is driven on a
resolved provider plan with the peak guard asserted clear, and arbitrage_enabled
is the only option that moves between the rows - false/false give +180 W
("loop -> 180 W") on both the cheap-now and dear-now plans, true/true give
-5000 W and +5000 W ("arbitrage -> ...").

TariffPlan.cheap_now() is deliberately NOT wired, decided rather than inherited
(DECISIONS §4). A provider-backed plan now exists on every configured site, so
Cheap window could read it - and Cheap window feeds the maintenance cycle's grid
top-up, the one place a price moves energy without trading being armed. On a
provider-only site static_status() returns False on every cycle, so adopting it
would take a paid grid top-up from never to sometimes. self.cheap stays on
static_status(); what adoption would take is listed rather than left implied.

THE CHECK THAT WOULD HAVE CAUGHT THIS is test_price.py section 13, and it grades
REACHABILITY FROM A CONFIGURATION rather than the shape of an `if` - the `if` was
exactly what somebody meant to write. amain()'s guards are EVALUATED against real
option dicts, whatever they are spelled as; the call graph under app/ is walked
to see whether the tasks those guards start arrive at resolve_tariff(), wherever
it has moved to; and then the fetch is DRIVEN with a counting transport, because
a graph is an argument and a counted request is an observation. What the
instrument cannot see is printed on every run, largest hole first.

Evidence: 29/29 green. 13 mutations in 14 runs - M10 re-run as M10b once it was
closed - each applied to a fresh cp -a of the clean worktree rather than
reverted (MUTATION.md habit 18), purged, :ro, -B. The
shipped defect - the gate back at arbitrage.enabled(opts), -4 B - is red on
seven named checks. Dropping the `or` (-27 B) is red on the strict-widening row;
removing cycle()'s trading gate (+8 B) is red on both AC3 rows. The instrument
is mutated too (habit 16): _reaches() always True and _task_sites() returning []
are both +0 B and both red.

Two findings are recorded rather than rounded off. provider_id() dropping
.strip() (-8 B) was a real SURVIVOR across four price suites - nothing fed a
padded provider id - and is closed in this commit by the padded-id pair; and the
first draft of the AC3 fixture fed five minutes of P1 telegrams, so whether the
peak guard was blind depended on where the wall clock sat inside the billing
quarter and the armed baseline failed to trade on some runs. It is 900 s now,
and the guard's clear state is a check rather than an assumption.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
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@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ configuration:
description: "DERIVED, not picked (SAFETY-24): the reference pack holds 13.8 kWh usable and the worst modelled peak-shaving day asks for 878 Wh, which is 6.4 %, so 20 % sits ten points above the pack's own cut-out and still leaves the guard about 1.6 of its worst observed days of room. ⚠️ IT BOUNDS THE PEAK GUARD ONLY. It is not a reserve for the whole pack: ordinary self-consumption discharges straight past it and goes on down to the battery cut-out, and raising this number does not change that by a tenth of a percent. It must stay strictly above the battery cut-out or the add-on refuses to start. Do not change it without re-deriving it."
price_provider:
name: "Tariff · Dynamic price source"
description: "Where day-ahead or real-time prices come from. 'off' is what ships, and means this site runs on the static tariff below with no trading. ⚠️ Switching it on today fetches, checks and publishes prices and changes no energy decision - nothing consumes the price series yet. It may not be combined with the two legacy Home Assistant price entities further down: two price sources on one site, one of which silently wins, is refused at startup rather than left looking armed."
description: "Where day-ahead or real-time prices come from. 'off' is what ships, and means this site runs on the static tariff below with no trading. ⚠️ SWITCHING THIS ON IS WHAT STARTS THE PRICE FETCH - not the trading switch further down. With a source selected the add-on fetches the feed every half hour, checks it, records the day and shows what it holds on the Price history row, whether or not price trading is armed. On its own it still moves no energy: trading is the separate switch, and the cheap window the monthly maintenance cycle uses comes from the fixed or day/night tariff below. It may not be combined with the two legacy Home Assistant price entities further down: two price sources on one site, one of which silently wins, is refused at startup rather than left looking armed."
price_markup_eur_kwh:
name: "Tariff · Supplier markup (EUR/kWh)"
description: "Your supplier's margin. The add-on adds it ONLY when the chosen price source does not already include it - under engie_dynamic, totalenergies_dynamic, eneco_eddy and manual_csv it is ignored, and logged as ignored, never applied twice."
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ configuration:
description: "The average the current price is compared against. Only meaningful together with the current-price entity above, and like it, may not be combined with a dynamic price source."
arbitrage_enabled:
name: "Tariff · Trade on the price spread"
description: "Charge in the cheapest published hour and discharge in the dearest, but only when the spread covers what the round trip costs. OFF in the shipped configuration, deliberately: this is the first strategy in the add-on that moves energy against the meter on purpose, so it is armed on purpose or not at all. It needs both a price source and a P1 meter, and the add-on refuses the combinations that cannot work rather than letting them look armed."
description: "Charge in the cheapest published hour and discharge in the dearest, but only when the spread covers what the round trip costs. OFF in the shipped configuration, deliberately: this is the first strategy in the add-on that moves energy against the meter on purpose, so it is armed on purpose or not at all. ⚠️ LEAVING IT OFF DOES NOT TURN THE PRICE FEED OFF. A price source selected above is fetched, checked and recorded either way; this switch decides only whether the add-on ACTS on those prices. It needs both a price source and a P1 meter, and the add-on refuses the combinations that cannot work rather than letting them look armed."
cycle_cost_threshold_eur:
name: "Tariff · Cost of one full charge/discharge cycle (EUR/kWh)"
description: "What one full round trip costs per kWh: wear on the pack plus conversion losses. A price spread smaller than this loses money and battery life, so it is not traded. ⚠️ THIS ONE IS NOT DERIVED FROM A MEASUREMENT. 0.10 is a product decision and it is still an open question with the owner (OPT-08). At this value a fixed day/night site does not trade at all - the realistic Belgian day/night spread is about 0.08 EUR/kWh - and that is the correct verdict at this number, not a fault."
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@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ configuration:
description: "AFGELEID, niet gekozen (SAFETY-24): de referentiebatterij heeft 13,8 kWh bruikbaar en de zwaarste doorgerekende afvlakdag vraagt 878 Wh, oftewel 6,4 %, dus 20 % ligt tien punten boven de uitschakelgrens van de batterij zelf en laat de bewaking nog ongeveer 1,6 van haar zwaarste waargenomen dagen speling. ⚠️ DIT BEGRENST ALLEEN DE PIEKBEWAKING. Het is geen reserve voor de hele batterij: gewoon eigenverbruik ontlaadt er dwars doorheen en gaat door tot aan de uitschakelgrens van de batterij, en dit getal verhogen verandert daar geen tiende procent aan. Het moet strikt boven de uitschakelgrens van de batterij blijven, anders start de add-on niet op. Verander het niet zonder de afleiding opnieuw te maken."
price_provider:
name: "Tarief · Bron van dynamische prijzen"
description: "Waar day-ahead- of realtimeprijzen vandaan komen. 'off' is de standaardinstelling en betekent dat deze installatie op het vaste tarief hieronder draait, zonder handel. ⚠️ Dit vandaag aanzetten haalt prijzen op, controleert en publiceert ze, en verandert geen enkele energiebeslissing - er is nog niets dat de prijsreeks gebruikt. Het mag niet gecombineerd worden met de twee oude Home Assistant-prijsentiteiten verderop: twee prijsbronnen op één installatie, waarvan er stilzwijgend één wint, wordt bij het opstarten geweigerd in plaats van schijnbaar actief gelaten."
description: "Waar day-ahead- of realtimeprijzen vandaan komen. 'off' is de standaardinstelling en betekent dat deze installatie op het vaste tarief hieronder draait, zonder handel. ⚠️ DIT AANZETTEN IS WAT HET OPHALEN VAN PRIJZEN START - niet de handelsschakelaar verderop. Met een bron ingesteld haalt de add-on de feed elk half uur op, controleert die, bewaart de dag en toont op de rij Prijsgeschiedenis wat er bewaard is, of prijshandel nu aan staat of niet. Op zichzelf verplaatst dat nog geen energie: handelen is de aparte schakelaar, en het goedkope venster dat de maandelijkse onderhoudscyclus gebruikt komt uit het vaste of dag/nacht-tarief hieronder. Het mag niet gecombineerd worden met de twee oude Home Assistant-prijsentiteiten verderop: twee prijsbronnen op één installatie, waarvan er stilzwijgend één wint, wordt bij het opstarten geweigerd in plaats van schijnbaar actief gelaten."
price_markup_eur_kwh:
name: "Tarief · Marge van de leverancier (EUR/kWh)"
description: "De marge van uw energieleverancier. De add-on telt die ALLEEN op wanneer de gekozen prijsbron ze niet al bevat - bij engie_dynamic, totalenergies_dynamic, eneco_eddy en manual_csv wordt ze genegeerd, en dat wordt ook gelogd, zodat ze nooit dubbel wordt aangerekend."
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ configuration:
description: "Het gemiddelde waarmee de huidige prijs vergeleken wordt. Alleen zinvol samen met de entiteit hierboven en, net als die, niet te combineren met een dynamische prijsbron."
arbitrage_enabled:
name: "Tarief · Handelen op het prijsverschil"
description: "Laden in het goedkoopste gepubliceerde uur en ontladen in het duurste, maar alleen wanneer het verschil de kosten van de volledige cyclus dekt. STAAT UIT in de standaardinstelling, met opzet: dit is de eerste strategie in de add-on die bewust energie tegen de meter in verplaatst, dus ze wordt bewust aangezet of helemaal niet. Ze heeft zowel een prijsbron als een P1-meter nodig, en de add-on weigert combinaties die niet kunnen werken in plaats van ze schijnbaar actief te laten."
description: "Laden in het goedkoopste gepubliceerde uur en ontladen in het duurste, maar alleen wanneer het verschil de kosten van de volledige cyclus dekt. STAAT UIT in de standaardinstelling, met opzet: dit is de eerste strategie in de add-on die bewust energie tegen de meter in verplaatst, dus ze wordt bewust aangezet of helemaal niet. ⚠️ DIT UIT LATEN STAAN ZET DE PRIJSFEED NIET UIT. Een prijsbron die hierboven gekozen is, wordt hoe dan ook opgehaald, gecontroleerd en bewaard; deze schakelaar bepaalt alleen of de add-on op die prijzen HANDELT. Ze heeft zowel een prijsbron als een P1-meter nodig, en de add-on weigert combinaties die niet kunnen werken in plaats van ze schijnbaar actief te laten."
cycle_cost_threshold_eur:
name: "Tarief · Kostprijs van één volledige laad/ontlaadcyclus (EUR/kWh)"
description: "Wat één volledige cyclus per kWh kost: slijtage van de batterij plus omzettingsverliezen. Een prijsverschil dat hier onder ligt, kost geld en levensduur en wordt dus niet verhandeld. ⚠️ DIT GETAL IS NIET AFGELEID UIT EEN METING. 0,10 is een productbeslissing en staat nog open bij de eigenaar (OPT-08). Bij deze waarde handelt een installatie met een vast dag/nachttarief helemaal niet - het realistische Belgische dag/nachtverschil is ongeveer 0,08 EUR/kWh - en dat is bij dit getal het juiste antwoord, geen fout."