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 
+1 from me looking for EVCS compatibility with Octopus Energy Intelligent smart tariffs before winter arrives if possible please.
OCPP at home can make a lot of sense 
+1 Maybe not a big market but my guess is that for house applications “the company car charger at home” is bigger than “private charger at home”, at least in the Netherlands.
At my place we have a company car and we are using a Wallbox Copper SB, my brother is getting a hybrid car by the end of this year. Sadly I cannot recommend him to get a Victron Charger because NFC and OCPP are mandatory.
Because of CO2 measures forcing company car fleets to go more electric, the “charge at home while the boss pays” market is growing.
Too late for me and my brother but I hope this will give it the right priority for other customers.
Good luck!
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Same here, as company car and the boss will pay the charging, but only with charger with occp. And I think that there are lots of people who have a Victron Ess installed that have a company car.
Fully support this request for OCPP, we are working on a project to optimize self consumption of a three family home, covering all consumers, including heat pumps and wallboxes.
Unfortunately we can’t include the exsting EVCS due to lack of OCPP capability. Modbus TCP isn’t an option, OCPP is required, strictly. So we’ll have to buy a new EV Charger (non victron 
) which can be managed by OCPP. This is too bad, as the current project will be the showcase for future projects wrt optimizing self consumption.
Why modbus is not an option, it is the most standardized industrial protocol. The OCPP infrastructuture is way more expensive. And if it is mandatory to be OCPP, you can build a gatway with a raspbery pi to convert from ModbusTCP to OCPP.
And to answer the request from all the above, yes, one day we will have OCPP, but since we are not targeting public instalations, (where is it mostly used) we prefer to divert our R&D resources to other more important functionalities or products.
Hi Lucian, txs for your quick answer.
For sure I fully understand your statement wrt assigning R&D resources and I like to have crystal clear statements like that.
In our case modbus is not an option as it is not supported by the core system which is optimizing the self consumption and managing the billing process amongst the participating parties.
Thanks for pointing me towards the Modbus TCP to OCPP converter, but this would create another complexity nobody wants to manage, and pay for at the end.
However I’ll see if I can find out more, maybe we can use it in another setup.
Usualy we (Victron) are the one doing the self consumption part, and the EVCS is integrated into that
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I have like many other people a residential installation, the Ev charger with rfid and occp is needed so I can get paid by my employer for charging his car. So this is not a public request it’s a personal situation and I think there are many other with me.
The self consumption is the best you can find, the problem is the over capacity of power by the solar system. In 2027 in the Netherlands the rules are going to change for the energy you put back on the grid. I want to put it in the car and I want my boss to pay for that energy, instead off putting it back on the grid. So if the software think he doesn’t need the energy after calculating of the self consumption, it dumps the energy in the car, I get paid for it, instead of dumping it on the grid and almost have to pay for it.
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Does anyone know of any public examples of a ModBus to OCPP gateway at least until such time as it can be integrated into the Cerbo?
I’m same as others here. I have a wonderful DESS enabled home but can’t receive the income from my employer without OCPP (in my case Monta)
I’d absolutely love this feature and willing to try even the most rough-and-ready experiment of it as any income is better than nothing!!
I would start with this - node-red-contrib-ocpp (node) - Node-RED
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