I was wondering if this charging station is compatible with RED III ERE certificates? This way charging my car could earn a bit more.
For as far as I found out there should be a MID compatible measuring device in the charger itself. However I wonder what the implications of this are. For instance if I have a charger and a separate MID sensor, but only in one fixed circuit, would that be useful? Or is the charger already compatible? Could Victron go lobby to get the charger to be accepted?
Well as far as I am aware the EVCS energy meter is not MID certified. That means it is not compatible with the RED III ERE certificates. It’s not very accurate and you can literally adjust the EVCS power meter to show more power then it is actually using ;).
Sad, because I’m actually in the same boat. Just bought this EVCS NS 2 weeks ago and I really like it. But going to sell it already because I’ve learnt about the ERE certificates. Victron unfortunately does not provide an alternative so I’ll have to go with an Alfen or something similar. Charhing about 9000kWh in my cars yearly, so a new charger will pay for itself in no time with the ERE’s.
EDIT: To Victron techs. It would be really awesome if you could officially allow/support retrofitting a certified MID meter in the EVCS, there is some space available in there. This would probably make the EVCS usable for claiming REDIII ERE’s. I would be glad to help/test, since I feel really sad about selling it
Same here, I really like this device, invested a lot in the whole setup. I’d rather buy an upgrade option.
If it would be MID, then the charger would be really useful, I wil calculate, but fear that I will have to drill new holes in the wall for another solution.
I eventually sold my Charging Station NS and bought an Alfen, steered by EVCC. Used MQTT to simulate it being a EVCS in VenusOS. But I really miss the programmable LED ring
Sure. Although Im no expert AT ALL. Here’s what I did. ChatGPT FTW.
Enable MQTT in EVCC. Enable supervisor access on Cerbo, Use powershell: ssh root@ipadrescerbo. Login using supervisor password.
If you managed that. Ask chatgpt to write you a script to send evcc data to the cerbo d-bus using evcc’s mqtt to simulate the EVCS based on your own wallbox. After you managed that, ask chat you automate the startup of the script. Specifially ask chatgpt to do everything STEP BY STEP. So you can upload screenshots or data after each instruction, before continuing to the next step.
Actually worked quite well, had it up and running in about 30 mins. (Except charge session duration and charge session energy, If you manage that, let me know )
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