OpenEVSE?

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Anyone of you using OpenEVSE? I’m having a little dream to include it in my pimatic environment.

It has a serial interface they call RAPI, currently I’ve got a bluetooth module connected, but it’ll be replaced/suplemented by an esp8266 before long.

Most interesting part would be to see the cars current charging status, and possibly set up some rules on when to start/stop charing based on the location plugin. But I’ll probably spend more time trying to get familiar with pimatic internals than actually making anything for the foreseeable future.

@beikeland Never heard of it. But doesn’t sound to hard to create an Plugin for that, if you are familiar with coffescript/nodejs or any other programming language.
The framework allows you to create an plugin without needing to know the pimatic internals in and out.

@beikeland There is a python library which helps communicating with OpenEVSE boards, using the RAPI protocol - https://github.com/tiramiseb/python-openevse

May be you can trial this. If it works it can be integrated into Pimatic. May be you can also find out if OpenEVSE provide virtual or mock-up chargeboards which could simplify the integration work.

i’ll try and fiddle with it; probably shell-execute something quick and dirty; and then try to get serious

Its a pretty awesome charger for electric vehicles, open source, and scales to what you want.