Replace the single hourly "dishwasher" home appliance with a list of
flexible consumers (home_appliances). Each consumer defines its load
either as an explicit power profile (energy-preservingly resampled onto
the optimization slot grid, incl. 15-min and non-integer interval ratios)
or the flat consumption_wh/duration_h fallback, and runs ONCE or DAILY
within its time windows and the optimization horizon.
- ConsumerScheduleMode + shared load-definition validation (XOR of
profile/fallback, reject negative/NaN/inf, unique device_id)
- ApplianceGeneLayout: variable appliance gene block (index into
allowed_start_slots), ONCE/DAILY calendar-day based, no snapping
- per-device output: result.home_appliance_energy_wh, appliance_starts
(absolute local times), per-device solution columns and DDBC RUN/OFF
instructions on state transitions only
- deprecate dishwasher/washingstart/Home_appliance_wh_per_hour with
backward-compatible mapping and explicit conflict rejection
- max_home_appliances is now an upper bound only; no demo appliance and
no on/off behaviour
- docs, openapi.json, CHANGELOG and optimize_result_2* fixtures updated;
new tests/test_homeappliance.py covers the mandatory test matrix
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The genetic optimizer was hard-wired to an hourly grid and forced
optimization.interval to 3600 s. Generalize it to a configurable slot grid
of length prediction.hours * (3600 / interval), accepting 900 (15 min) in
addition to the default 3600 (1 hour) so the optimizer can schedule on a
quarter-hour grid for 15-minute dynamic electricity tariffs.
- genetic.py: slot_duration_h / slots_per_hour / total_slots helpers; all GA
vectors sized by total_slots; simulate()/evaluate() indexed by start slot.
- geneticparams.py: allow {900, 3600}; scale the load power series to per-slot
energy, mirroring the PV series.
- battery.py / inverter.py: scale power caps to per-slot energy caps via
slot_duration_h; homeappliance.py carries the hook.
- geneticsolution.py: serialize solution and plan on the slot grid (interval
freq, start-slot offset, second-based instruction instants).
The default 3600 s interval keeps the previous hourly behaviour; the genetic
regression suite is unchanged. Adds tests for the 15-minute slot grid.
AndreasandClaude Opus 4.8
ChristinandAndreas