Target rates seem to be showing time slots from previous period

[djdarlo]

Describe the bug

I have a target rate set up from 4pm to 4pm. Target hours is set to 2.5 and the time is now 16:37. Last evaluated is showing as 16:38:45 but the target slots are showing as before this time.

Reproduction steps

Update target hours to any number and it still shows slots from before 4pm.

Expected behaviour

Show slots from 4pm today onwards.

Tariff Code

Agile

Integration Version

Latest

Home Assistant Version

Latest

Fresh Install?

Not specified

Home Assistant Logs

N/A

Confirmation

• I confirm that I cannot find my solution within the documentation
• I confirm that I cannot find my solution within the FAQ

[alfwro13]

Yep same here

[Markyt77]

Same here

[djdarlo]

Seems to have corrected itself after 5pm

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[alfwro13]

same today -target rates only appeared after 5PM

[BottlecapDave]

Hello and sorry for the late response.

Target rate data relies on the underlying rate information being available. If the rate data doesn't update to include the new agile pricing (i.e. because it's late), then new rate times won't be calculated. This can be determined by a couple of attributes as per the docs.

Attribute	Type	Description
target_times_last_evaluated	datetime	The datetime the target times collection was last evaluated. This will occur if all previous target times are in the past and all rates are available for the requested future time period. For example, if you are targeting 16:00 (day 1) to 16:00 (day 2), and you only have rates up to 23:00 (day 1), then the target rates won't be calculated.
rates_incomplete	boolean	True if rate information is incomplete and therefore target times cannot be calculated; False otherwise.

The last evaluated is just when HA last evaluated the state of the entity (same as native last_updated before I knew this existed). As the target rates corrected, I suspect this was the issue, so closing.