> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.trest.se/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.trest.se/the-basics/how-does-the-software-work/bot-actions-and-overrides.md).

# Bot Actions and Overrides

### Bot Actions

Bot Actions automatically optimize your home's energy costs. The Bot analyzes your energy usage, identifies the most cost-effective hours to purchase energy daily, and determines the best times to use the purchased energy based on your consumption. This helps optimize your energy bill.

These Bot Actions have different colors for each 'mode', here are the descriptions of the Bot Action colors: 

<mark style="color:yellow;">Yellow</mark>: Pause, the battery will not charge and neither discharge

<mark style="color:green;">Green</mark>: Buy, the battery will buy electricity from the grid&#x20;

<mark style="color:red;">Red</mark>: Sell, the battery will discharge energy to the grid

<mark style="color:blue;">Blue</mark>: Self sustainable, will use the energy in the battery and charge it from your solar cells if the sun is shining

### Bot Overrides

Bot Overrides allow you to customize the Bot's actions. If you feel the Bot has chosen unusual hours for its actions, you can set your own preferred energy modes for specific hours.

You can also override 'Non-Bot' hours, such as the 'Blue hours' that are '<mark style="color:blue;">Self Sustainable</mark>'. For instance, if energy prices spike by 700% at 6 PM, you can charge the battery in the preceding hours and set a '<mark style="color:red;">Sell</mark>' mode at 6 PM, and the system will handle everything automatically.

The Bot Overrides have a different colors than Bot Actions to be able to differ between them:

<mark style="color:green;">Dark Green</mark>: Override Buy mode

<mark style="color:purple;">Purple</mark>: Override Sell mode

<mark style="color:orange;">Beige</mark>: Override Self Sustainable mode


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