Hello.
Do you think it would be possible to add EV Charger into Virtual devices node in Node red ?
We have grid meters available so it should be similar . Idea is that i have already a charger with which i can communicate and set current from Node Red. But it is running on Tuya firmware so modbus or mqtt drivers available are not very suitable. It would be nice to be able to make a virtual EVSE and just send values/commands via Custom control node.
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Would be nice if it can be added.
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+1 for sure! Then I can just send data from my shelly device
Many credits to Victron for supporting the virtual devices within Node-Red.
I am also looking for a EV Charger virtual component within Node-Red.
Is it already on the roadmap for Victron?
Personally, I had bought a Victron EV charger. But because my EV charger was delivered and directly settled by my employer, that’s not an option.
I think this will apply to many lease drivers.
So a ‘real’ Victron would be very welcome :).
As far as i know they did not consider it. But there is a way to include it via MQTT. There is a driver which you install to Cerbo and you can write the data from any MQTT Broker like Homeassistant or even integrated NodeRed integration.
I had that working before, but it does not work anymore I think it is not possible anymore to make devices via MQTT.
I am running it right now on latest Beta SW. So it can work. Downside is that you can not controll the current or turn on/off charging because driver will override. Do you have MQTT enabled and sending correct toppic ?
That is interesting, I had it all working before so I assume that I have the correct topic not sure if they have been changed. All my PV inverters where also not working anymore but I fixed those using the virtual devices.
If you would have an example of your EV implementation that would be nice.
I uses the latest released version 3.66
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I have tried both publishing via Home asssistant and internally via Node red and both works.
I recommend you to set up a simple node (MQTT in) to check correct formating of your json.
Topic is in the name of the Node.
Driver link :
It is not mine creation so all thanks to Mr-Manuel 
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Yes, an EVSE/EVCS virtual device would be very convenient. 
I requested EV virtual device but they declined it. Because they said there was already block for EV control. But as far as I could understand it does not work with third party chargers.
I used this one freakent/dbus-mqtt-devices: A driver for Victron VenusOS GX devices to support use of dbus-mqtt/flashmq-mqtt
But I just had to update to work with the new Cebro OS 
I am really waiting for a virtual EV device, that would be cool. Seems a but strange they haven’t included it yet.