Hi Community,
I was wondering if there are plans to add a virtual EVCS node so we can integrate other brands as well, we get lots of questions if 3rd party chargers, for example Fronius Wattpilot Flex, can be integrated into VRM. (read and write)
So far we haven’t found a good solution to do so (I know we can use an energy meter to show as an EV charger) but that’s not the type of integration we’re looking for.
Does anyone have a better idea on how to handle this?
Thanks in advance!
I was just able to integrate Feyree charger to Victron using Home Assistant with Tuya-local integration and dbus-mqtt-devices driver installed in Cerbo.
Charger is displayed and controllable via VRM - you can start/stop and set current, it also reports its status. For Auto mode I still need to test flow in NodeRed.
Hello Martin,
Interesting that you got this to work, would you mind sharing the flow & setup? I suspect with little adjustments to the nodes we could integrate other third party EV chargers as well.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
here: martinskokan/feyree-victron
you can find first version of the guide and sample node-red json file.
please read the dbus-mqtt-devices guide first to install dbus-mqtt-devices driver into your Cerbo first. Details are here: freakent/dbus-mqtt-devices: A driver for Victron VenusOS GX devices to support use of dbus-mqtt/flashmq-mqtt