Hi, thanks for your answers!
Yes, the GX will be able to control multiple charging stations, that’s something we are working on. And later, OCPP will be added.
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Hi Lucian
Just to add there’s a relatively big market for OCPP EVSE in the UK, Octopus energy a offering very advantageous tariff (Octopus Intelligent Go) exclusively for customers who can let they EV charging being controlled by the supplier, it’s the most popular EV tariff in the UK.
No MID metering needed, they just need control for grid balancing
I understand it’s hard to tell but would you have an indication of when the functionality will be released? (Sorry for insisting but we’re desperate for a new charger and would love to have great addition to the ecosystem)
Regards George
And it is mandatory to do so over OCPP? You can already control the EVCS over Modbus TCP.
So if you want to do it, there are ways.
And if you have a big project, that involves lots of units, I can give you some help
It’s probably a lot easier for Octopus if they can control the charging stations (that participate in this intelligent tariff) all over the same protocol: OCPP 2.x.
Technically, one could write some kind of daemon that push/pulls data to/from the [Octopus] OCPP API and translates it to Modbus TCP for local communication with the charging station.
Native support would be even better of course 