New plugin pimatic-bluelink

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The equivalent for “estimatedPortableChargeDuration”. AC charging from the standard 230V power socket with a power adapter.

I added the AC/DC values in version 0.2.29

Thx for the new version I have installed it.
At the moment the charge time is showing this way, even the car is unplugged. This is okay for me.

But it does not change to AC when I plug the car. I tried it with the portable charger. I had a look to the JSON before charging and during. This is the relevant part of the json I think.

08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>  "evStatus": {
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>    "batteryCharge": false,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>    "batteryStatus": 75,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>    "batteryPlugin": 2,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>    "remainTime2": {
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      "etc1": {
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "value": 125,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "unit": 1
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      },
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      "etc2": {
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "value": 600,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "unit": 1
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      },
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      "etc3": {
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "value": 200,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "unit": 1
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      },
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      "atc": {
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "value": 0,
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>        "unit": 1
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>      }
08:28:06.759 [pimatic-bluelink] debug:>    },

Are you checking batteryPlugin to identify how the car is charging?
"batteryPlugin": 0, should be unplugged
"batteryPlugin": 1, should be DC
"batteryPlugin": 2, should be AC portable
"batteryPlugin": 3, should be AC standard (Wallbox)

What is a bit crazy "batteryCharge" stays false, even the car was plugged. Maybe it takes more time to get the update. I plugged the car just a short time.

I can verify this later today. I must drive to a fast charger, plug it to a wallbox…

EDIT
I now back at home and plugged the car to the AC portable plug. The UI shows changes now to AC. Seems I gave it not enough time…

But at the end it should be 290 min (ACport)

I adapted the code a bit in my test system, because the better identifier for the charging type is batteryPlugin.

#        if evStatus.remainTime2.etc1.value > 0
        if evStatus.batteryPlugin == 1
          _chargingTime = evStatus.remainTime2.etc1.value + "min (DC)"
#        else if evStatus.remainTime2.etc3.value > 0
        else if evStatus.batteryPlugin == 3
          _chargingTime = evStatus.remainTime2.etc3.value + "min (AC)"
#        else if evStatus.remainTime2.etc2.value > 0
        else if evStatus.batteryPlugin == 2
          _chargingTime = evStatus.remainTime2.etc2.value + "min (ACport)"
        else 
          _chargingTime = "no value"
        @setChargingTime(_chargingTime)

Now it shows:

I will drive to a FastCharger with DC and AC plugs later to verify if 1 really represents DC and 3 represents AC

I’m made the changes in version 0.2.30.

It a bit tricky with AC and ACport. As I connected the car to AC the UI of Pimatic showed ACport. At home I plugged the car to the ACport and the UI shows again ACport. batteryPlugin was “2” in both cases… I will try it once more in the next days. DC works fine.

Hi, when batteryPlugin is 2 then it should be ACport. Or do is miss your point?

At the moment I dont now to be honest. I need to drive once more to a fast charger. My wallbox is not installed yet. Will do this tomorrow.

I tried over the weekend to figure out how to identify AC and ACportable. I wasn’t able to find a way. Currently always ACport is shown independent of whether the car charges AC or AC portable. So I would suggest to use always AC and the related charging time for the UI.
ACport should only be required in emergency cases. Me for my own can life without it. What about the other users?

No one seems to be against it…

@bertreb: If it would be okay for you, could you please adjust the plugin to evaluate AC instead of ACport when batteryPlugin=2? I think it is the more used and useful AC info.

Thats ok, i changed it in version 0.2.32

Thank you!