Again: best way to manually switch over to charging battery with DESS?

Q&A and troubleshooting DESS
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New DESS user here, figuring it out as we go.
One thing I think we will want to do that has been semi-discussed here but not resolved AFAIK and I have searched:

  1. Is there a smart way to manually start a battery charge when needed? Preferably via Node Red?

    Using the green mode currently but not seeing a way to do this?
    Many thanks for any hints.

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To force a charge, you’d either switch the ESS mode to “Keep batteries charged” or change your ESS minimum SOC to 100%. Then when you want the DESS plan to take over, you’d revert.

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Thanks. Looking but can not find that setting. Would you mind elaboration on where that is?
Do you also know if there is a way to do this via a function/button in Node Red?

Edit: found a possible solution here

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On VRM,

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You can control ESS state with the “ESS Control” and “Settings” nodes, I believe

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Thanks! That looks perfect as a starting point.
Will have a go with this and try to build something in Node Red and probably with a timer and/or some conditionals, .
If someone has a working Node Red example flow that would be fab. Thanks again!

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Just another post to confirm that this advice works perfectly.
Just getting started with DESS and ESS so learning as I go.