Figuring out how to control charging for BMW i3

[martinarva]

Hi!

I'm using the official BMW integration in Home Assitant. As BMW i3 does not have charging on&off I have to use immediate_charging and delayed_charging. My use case is that i delay charging on expensive electricity price hours when car is at home.

I got everything yo work, but have one issue. In delayed_charging departure time is mandatory to set and then the car uses this time to override delayed charging to charge car to 100% to this time.

Wouldn't be a problem when i could set this time in HA as well, but unfortunately there is no such entity. Also charging window cannot be set in HA.

I see that there are API classes for that:
bimmer_connected.vehicle.charging_profile.ChargingWindow
bimmer_connected.vehicle.charging_profile.DepartureTimer
bimmer_connected.vehicle.charging_profile.TimerTypes

So there should be a possibility to set charging window and "next departure time only" timer like in BMW App:

With this i can set up charging window and depature time so that it won't trigger charging when it's not needed.

Would it be possible to have this functionality in bimmer_connected and HA?

@rikroe , i can give you access to my BMW account, so you can test it with my car if you need.