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 …

Would be nice if it can be added.

+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 b…

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…

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. [image] Topic is in the name of the Node. Driver link : [image] GitHub - mr-manuel/venus-os_dbus…

Yes, an EVSE/EVCS virtual device would be very convenient. :slightly_smiling_face:

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.

Virtual EVSE Device in Node Red

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Dominik (Dominik) 31 March 2026 06:10 14

For everybody waiting i have seen “Virtual EV device “ in the changeolog in 3.80~9 Beta if somebody from Victron is reading … Thank you and good job ! I will test it later today.

Ist es möglich einen EV Charger über Virtual Device zu definieren?

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