Hello Craig
Thanks for your post. This is more or less along the line I'm currently thinking (but I got not past that stage yet).
I just found the discussion about solar forecast, opened an account and added my PV installation. Small steps, I know.
Since we usually do not use the car to commute to work (we prefer public transport and home office), I'm very interested in charging the car during the day when there is excess solar energy. But I need to be careful in the planning area, since this is also the time where there is a higher tarif for the grid energy.
I'm also struggling a bit with the programming side. node-red in my mind is primarily event triggered flows. I still try to wrap my head around the data models needed here. But I'm confident that I will get there in the end, it just takes time.
