SmartEVSEv3 connection for Home Assistant
Install HACS if you have that not already running; you'd want it installed anyways to have access to all those wonderful custom_components....
From the main menu, select HACS, select Integrations, select Explore & Download repositories; enter "smartevse" in the search box, follow instructions to download.
Restart Home Assistant, and, very important and often forgotten, RESTART YOUR BROWSER! Really close your browser window and reopen it. F5 is not enough!
After restart, from the main menu, select Settings, select Devices & Services (or wherever "Integrations" are mentioned); you will probably see your SmartEVSE installed.
If not (because you don't have mDNS configured on your HomeAssistant Server, you have your SmartEVSE on a different vlan/network segment than your HomeAssistant Server, or other network mis/nonstandard configurations):
Select "add integration", enter "smartevse", and from then on follow instructions.
Restart Home Assistant, and, very important and often forgotten, RESTART YOUR BROWSER!
The main advantage of this installation method is that HomeAssistant will inform you of updates.
custom_components/smartevse/
to your homeassistant config directory.After installation and restart your SmartEVSE device should be discovered. If not:
For automatic discovery, your SmartEVSE device needs to be pingable by mDNS: ping SmartEVSE-xxxx.local where xxxx is the serial number of your device.
This will only work if your SmartEVSE device is