Ecoflow PowerOcean Data can be outdated

[Jelledb]

Describe the bug

This is an issue of the Ecoflow API and not evcc.

The problem is that the Ecoflow API will return outdated results until you open the Ecoflow app
A lot of reports of this can be found online like these:

• Entities are updates only when Ecoflow app is open tolwi/hassio-ecoflow-cloud#57
  There is also some Reddit posts about it.

There seems to be some kind of trigger in the Ecoflow system to refresh the data which can be triggered by i.e. opening the mobile app. When you open the mobile app after a while you directly see EVCC updating to the correct values within 30~ seconds.

This is an external issue but I figured it's still good to track so people are aware and maybe workarounds or potential solutions can be discussed.

Steps to reproduce

1. Run EVCC
2. Open Ecoflow mobile app
3. Wait a few minutes
4. Check EVCC again - you'll see the data is still the same pretty much.
5. Open Ecoflow app
6. Wait 30 seconds
7. You'll see now EVCC is updated with the correct values.

Configuration details

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Log details

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What type of operating system or environment does evcc run on?

Docker container

External automation

• I have made sure that no external automation like HomeAssistant or Node-RED is active or accessing any of the mentioned devices when this issue occurs.

Nightly build

• I have verified that the issue is reproducible with the latest nightly build

Version

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[andig]

Thanks for the report. Since this is nothing we can fix it seems it doesn't belong into issues. Moving into the home installation discussions.