Hi
Not sure if anyone on here has tried or posted on this before.
But I've "discovered" a relatively easy way of making my dumb podpoint "smart" charger - really smart. To do this you need 3 ingredients:
1) Raspberry PI https://www.raspberrypi.org/connected to your home network (over wifi) running raspbian (I had one lying around but you can buy what you need for about £55 or less ).
2) Python3 installed with the python 3 version of ardevd's jlrpy library for python control of the ipace. (it's on github: https://github.com/ardevd/jlrpy
3) The provided sample script and ini file - charge_offpeak.py/sample.jlrpy.ini (in the github repo in the examples folder).
The .ini file holds your login credentials, home charger position, charging hours, and max desired %SOC.
My last 3 charges worked like a charm - feeling more comfortable about my upcoming switch to a variable tarriff now.
If folks want I can provide a writeup of the installation and configuration of the script to run as a service (auto on startup).
Ardevd - can't thankyou enough, I was gearing up to take your API descriptions and write this from those - but this does exactly what I need.
Simon,.
Not sure if anyone on here has tried or posted on this before.
But I've "discovered" a relatively easy way of making my dumb podpoint "smart" charger - really smart. To do this you need 3 ingredients:
1) Raspberry PI https://www.raspberrypi.org/connected to your home network (over wifi) running raspbian (I had one lying around but you can buy what you need for about £55 or less ).
2) Python3 installed with the python 3 version of ardevd's jlrpy library for python control of the ipace. (it's on github: https://github.com/ardevd/jlrpy
3) The provided sample script and ini file - charge_offpeak.py/sample.jlrpy.ini (in the github repo in the examples folder).
The .ini file holds your login credentials, home charger position, charging hours, and max desired %SOC.
- With the script running, all you need to do is plug the car in, it will start charging, until the script wakes and checks the car (every minute).
- It uses the home charger position to only proceed when you are charging at home.
- The script then pauses charging via the API, until the charge window opens.
- When the window opens it resumes charging until the end of the window or max SOC is reached and it then pauses charging again,
- Charging will resume when the window opens again..
My last 3 charges worked like a charm - feeling more comfortable about my upcoming switch to a variable tarriff now.
If folks want I can provide a writeup of the installation and configuration of the script to run as a service (auto on startup).
Ardevd - can't thankyou enough, I was gearing up to take your API descriptions and write this from those - but this does exactly what I need.
Simon,.