Forecast.Solar's sensors stop updating in the evening, so at night every such
site had no forecast: the night cheap run needed 1.5x the cycle cost and
Leftover solar planned nothing. One missed poll also dropped it at once.
solarfc.Hold keeps the last fresh reading of each sensor, for the day it is
for. A missing or stale sensor is covered by it for up to FRESH_S (a short
outage), and from the end of the bell (20:00) until local midnight + 3 h
however old. A tomorrow figure is tomorrow's until midnight and then today's;
a today figure is only today's. Stored in the controller's store
(solar_fc_hold), so an evening restart keeps it. The forecast line says
'Solar forecast read 17:05, used for tonight's plan.' (EN, NL).
test_tariff24_weather.py runs with a hold that never covers: it tests what the
plan does when the forecast IS lost.
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Losing the solar forecast mid-run used to widen the gap at once and stop a
grid charge (and a sensor that went unavailable for a minute stopped and
restarted it). A run under way when the forecast is lost now keeps the gap it
was planned with until it ends (Controller.weather_held(), recorded by
_wx_track() each cycle a forecast is read); the wider gap applies from the next
run. The plan key holds the hold state so the plan rebuilds when it ends. Home's
mirror (homeview.trade_verdict) asks the same weather_held(now).
Tests: test_tariff24_weather.py part 4 (going: the charge continues to the run's
end, the next run is not_worth; flap of one and two reads: no stop, no restart;
Home agrees) and a test_modes_p4.py scenario that runs a forecast day at a gap
between 1x and 1.5x the cycle cost. DECISIONS wording follows.
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With battery modes on, the price gap a mode needs was always widened x1.5 by
Uncertainty.NO_WEATHER, even with a solar forecast read, so a 0.08 day/night
gap never traded at the shipped cycle cost. The doubt is now added only when
no usable forecast is read (solar_fc is None, the day plan's own test), in the
run plan (_price_runs), the charge gate (_mode_roles) and Home's mirror
(homeview.trade_verdict). The rule is one helper, arbitrage.weather_uncertainty();
the modes-off trade path (main.py cycle) keeps its literal NO_WEATHER.
DOCS "Battery modes" sentence, CHANGELOG 0.19.1 line and the DECISIONS note
follow. Tests: test_tariff24_weather.py.
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