Diverting Solar to Charge an Electric Car

[glyn.hudson]

Nice work, the graph speaks for itself. Very impressive. I hope to do the same thing using openEVSE.

So far I’ve successfully been able to vary the charge rate of the openEVSE using RAPI commands:

OpenEVSE EV Charging station with Emoncms WiFi Integration

@cab123 I have taken a look at your EV charge controller thread. I really like what you have done with MQTT. I am going to try and do the same using OpenEVSE The OpenEVSE ESP8266 posts to emoncms (well http://data.openevse.org Emoncms instance by default) all the time. OpenEVSE has the ability to control the charging current via RAPI commands, see example of using the openEVSE web interface (running from an ESP8266) to reduce the charge rate to 13A. The graph on the left shows the current bein…