Missing EV charger power and state

[farmer1969]

Hello Charles,

I'm missing the actual EV charger power along with charger state like:

Is that something you could potentially implement?

Thanks, Frank

[CharlesGillanders]

The Alpha OpenAPI at https://open.alphaess.com/developmentManagement/apiList does have getEvChargerStatusBySn which returns the charger state, there's also getEvChargerCurrentsBySn - does that return the power metric that you are looking for?

I don't have either of those currently used in my python library, I don't have a charger to test with but if you would be open to volunteering to do some testing I'm sure that I could add both of them relatively easily.

[farmer1969]

Certainly I could help here as I have an AlphaESS Charger type 'SMILE-EVCT11'. And I have experience in using the ioBroker adapter provided by Gaspode69 at https://github.com/Gaspode69/ioBroker.alpha-ess/tree/main . Since version 1.3.0 this is supporting the wallbox based on OpenAPI.

[Poshy163]

Heya man, I also don't personally don't have an EV, so if you can give me some of the responses from the API from those either Charles or I can hook it up to the current PR I'm working on and add it in

[farmer1969]

I will see whether I can work on it on Sunday. Today, no chance...

[Rasenkardinal]

This would be really great! I am happy to help with testing if necessary.

[farmer1969]

Hi @CharlesGillanders, @Poshy163, I almost forgot that I provided the details (response from OpenAPI) some time back already to Gaspode69 in Storion4You forum. Based on the information available here he implemented the EV charger in the ioBroker AlphaESS adapter. Would this information be sufficient? I guess so. If required I would translate that from German to English but Google Translator should do was well ;-)

[Poshy163]

Cheers for that @farmer1969 so the only data you are looking at using is stuff like this?

getEvChargerConfigList: ---->code - 200 ---->msg - "Success" ---->expMsg - null ---->data - [{"evchargerSn":"ALP202xxxxxxxxx","evchargerModel":"SMILE-EVCT11"}] getEvChargerCurrentsBySn: ---->code - 200 ---->msg - "Success" ---->expMsg - null ---->data - {"currentsetting":32} getEvChargerStatusBySn: ---->code - 200 ---->msg - "Success" ---->expMsg - null ---->data - {"evchargerStatus":1}

[farmer1969]

Not really, I think I should extend the information...

Please refer to the script in #13. This covers most use cases I believe, meaning all relevant ev-charger APIs.

As there are (refer to https://open.alphaess.com/developmentManagement/apiList):

• getEvChargerConfigList ==> Obtain the SN of the charging pile according to the SN, and set the model
• getEvChargerCurrentsBySn ==> Obtain the current setting of charging pile household according to SN
• setEvChargerCurrentsBySn ==> Set charging pile household current setting according to SN
• getEvChargerStatusBySn ==> Obtain charging pile status according to SN+charging pile SN
• remoteControlEvCharger ==> According to SN+ charging pile SN remote control charging pile to start charging/stop charging
• getChargeConfigInfo ==> According SN to get charging setting information
• updateChargeConfigInfo ==> According SN to Set charging information，Setting frequency 24 hours, set once a day

Based on the script from #13 I shared in #24 the results, including start/stop charging.

All that shall be provided through the AlphaESS integration for use through HA.