I would like a setting in the Victron EV Charging Station to set a time period each day where the light ring will not light up.
That way I can configure it to not show the light ring from say 19:00 until 07:00. But then during the day the light ring will display and function as normal.
The reason I would like this feature is that my charging station only actually does any charging during the day when there is excess solar. I often leave my EV connected for days if I don’t need to go anywhere and at night the light ring is very bright and doesn’t need to be on as the charger is not going to be doing anything.
Bonus points would be, that the charging station disables the light ring a configurable time after the solar power coming into the system drops to zero at the end of the day. As this way all year it would turn off the light ring after it gets dark!
Yes, I support this feature. Currently I have my light ring dimmed so it is not shining brightly at night, but that also means it is not very visible during the daytime. However, for this to work for me it needs to be relative to sunrise/sunset time, not fixed times.
Not a direct solution for the original poster, as it does not allow for a solution withing the EV Charger configuration pages. But figured out you can set the Light ring brightness (set to 0 to disable it) via a modbus register. See my own answer in #44602 for an example on how to do this in Home Assistant.
There are other pages that describe how to set a modbus register via a script or other automation providers.