Wasting a lot since I am on vacation and turned OFF the ESS ... Oh well

I know it is a shame but I am wasting a lot of Solar Energy these days because I switched OFF my LiFePO4 ESS, but left the SMA inverter ON; I just did not want to leave it ON all this time while far away from home with not much usage but the fridge and small appliances

So it is producing during the day and covers my daytime small usage at least , but all the Surplus is just fed back to the grid (for free and invoiced to my neighbors by the utility company BTW)

This is the perfect time to see all the surplus energy that can be stored on a daily basis

i-MiEV HEMS - Home Energy Management System

Now this is very interesting: Mitsubishi has studied the EV Energy Storage part very well, using their i-MiEV and its 16kWh battery pack

LEAF Link Update - Sending Destination Data to the car

So the bit I missed last saturday to retrieve the destination sent from the LEAF Link App to the car is this:

It is was easier than I thought, so this tuesday, going out to Paris (again), I tried it: CARWINGS > Favorites > LEAF Link

A voice tells you it is connecting to the information server and few seconds after the destination is spoken to you, then you can set up the itinerary to get there using the regular onboard GPS

After a very good diner @ Brasserie LIPP with a good Italian friend of my wife coming from New York

And then a little "Paris by night" drive around and the LEAF Link App tells me that I can go home without any problems ...

LEAF Link App Update - Login OK in France !

Following up my last post, I agreed to become a beta tester for the LEAF Link iPhone App in France, along with another user from Ausralia, as we could not get connected
Mike Heasley sent us a new beta version on tuesday, but it did not work for me, as it did for the Australian guy
Finally, last night, he sent me an updated version (1.0.9 with more servers) and this time I could finally get connected :-)
Mike is going to have to send the update to the Apple Store (I think it has to go through the approval procesa gain at Apple) and it should then be available soon ...

Thanks Mike on behalf of the French LEAF drivers !

Yes ! :-)

As my LEAF is sleeping in an underground parking at level - 2, it can not communicate with Nissan servers through its SIM card though  :-( 

So we will see how it works on saturday as we will go to Paris for lunch

Now, it shows a full battery pack :-) (? !)

The next step is to set up the information Feed in my CARWINGS account and in the LEAF 

And I should then be able to send data to the car (routes, contacts, GPS points,etc)

The App is now on the front page of my iPhone :-)

And what is nice is that this App really communicates with you through push notifications and lets you know what is going on; this is a big +

Update 14/09/2012:

And it should probably be OK for all European countries as Mike writes ! Let's hope so




And confirm on MyNissanLEAF (MNL) forum by Mike himself