Charge port button required to start scheduled charging?

[FordMachEGo]

This happend to me twice now, and was wondering if anyone else has seen this. I'm scheduled to start charging at 9:00 PM (via Sync/FordPass - not charger, which is a non-smart Grizzl-e). I plug it in prior to 9PM and notice after 9 it's still waiting to charge. I go to car and confirm it's not charging and then push the button in the charge port and it starts immediately. The car should not have been in sleep mode as I drove it a few hours ago. I've had the car for almost 2 years and this is only the second time it failed to start charging on schedule. Has anyone seen this and/or does anyone know why it started charging by simply pushing the charge port button? I thought that button was only to release a DCFC connector.

 

[RickMachE]

Never, and yes.

 

[Maquis]

It sounds like pressing the button is waking up the car. If so, next time it happens, try opening a door (or something else that would wake it up) just to confirm. That doesn’t solve your problem, but it would provide an additional clue.

 

[Mach-Lee]

That is just bizarre. Like Dave said, try waking up the car a different way.

For some reason, the Mach-E does weird things with Grizzl-E chargers sometimes. I think the Grizzl-Es output the wrong signal levels randomly and that confuses the car.

 

[alexgorod]

Interesting. It happened to me maybe a couple of times that the scheduled charge didn't start, and I went to the car to unplug and plug it back in, which started the charging right away. Next time I will try to press the button instead, but pretty sure that any action that wakes the car will work.

How long does it take for the car to go to the deep sleep mode? A couple of hours?

 

[Mach-Lee]

How long does it take for the car to go to the deep sleep mode? A couple of hours?

Regular sleep after 15 minutes, deep sleep after 14 days.