These charging systems can be tough with a strange fault like this, The High/Low Speed canbus is used between the ECM and instrument cluster which is how the battery charge lamp is shut off after start up. The ECM has to send a command to the instrument cluster to turn the light on, I agree with you that something is causing the charging fault.
You can check the battery by just putting your multimeter on the battery during cranking and watch for its lowest voltage reading. A shorted cell in the battery might not be showing itself until a certain temperature.
I'm not sure if your scan tool has an oscilloscope on it but you could also watch the two wires on the alternator, the yellow/light blue (Generator Comms) and the yellow (Generator Monitor) and see if any signals are dropping out.
Because this problem happens when it's cold, it won't show itself at AutoZone inside where it's warm.
Those 2 wires are the main control for the alternator. I'm very surprised you're not getting any other codes, have you tried a full system scan after seeing the Generator Fault PID, there might be codes stored in other modules you haven't seen yet.
So, there's still some things to check.
I wouldnt even call this an intermittent fault now because you know its temperature related. You could also scan the vehicle with a thermal camera and look for hot spots on wires or components.
If you had a P0622 setting you would know that communications on one of the alternators wires were being lost. If you don't have that code, that can indicate it's not an alternator fault. But definitely run a full system scan and see if there are any current or history codes.
The other thing I noticed in your live data video is that the scan tool was indicating a Generator Fault, but if you notice the ECM was not seeing it, just above that it was not putting the Generator Fault Lamp on. Thats also very strange, it looks like part of the ECM is seeing a fault, but another part is not reporting the fault. I didn't see if you had actually unplugged the ECM and checked the connectors or not.
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Friday, February 25th, 2022 AT 10:08 AM