OpenEVSE new user interface, testers & translations needed

Afraid the time zone PR is still not merged, found and fixed some more issues, sadly found more than I fixed…

For now you can test this build containing all the latest incoming fixes, I’d consider as “stable” ( until new bugs found :wink: )
( it’s UI v2 )

edit: openevse – Google Drive

Thanks. I installed it a few hours after you posted. Very happy with it so far.

Hi,

since the last update I did I have lost the ev_energy feed. Just updated to the latest version and still the same :frowning:

John

What openevse property where you getting for ev_energy ?

there was changes with the latest energyMeter in wifi firmware. some properties will be deprecated soon, but should works. The ‘wh’ has been removed, it was trailing around for long but there’s no sense to publish the same value twice ( conversion to wh can be done on client side )

up to date properties to use for energy meter are :
“session_elapsed”
“session_energy”
“total_energy”
“total_day”
“total_week”
“total_month”
“total_year”
“total_switches”

Hi, @Guillaume_S

yes it is the wh feed that is used by the emonpi to give you the session charge amount in the phone app.
what should I change in the input section to get ev_energy back again? Thanks

John

I don’t know I’ve never used emonpi.

@glyn.hudson

Do you have any clue now that “wh” is not fed to emonpi emoncms what should be used to get the bar graph back on the phone app to see the session’s charge?
Thanks

John

The charge delivered in the session is in the topic “session_energy” as mentioned above and it is in watt-hours. I am running it now and looking at it increment during a charge session.

HOWEVER, it is being published to MQTT but not to emon. Lots of other stuff is, but not session_energy nor total_energy and the former is probably also tied up in the wh topic also not working.

Ho I think I know why. I’ve completely forgot to add the new energyMeter data to the emoncms_publish().
I’m adding it now:

new build here :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FjYBbFW2SXE_5jxBuc-knzxWo3vFwJwK&authuser=hotlobster75%40gmail.com&usp=drive_fs

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With the new build, there are more feeds working to emon but still not wh, volt, session_energy, total_energy, elapsed, session_elapsed.

Wh has been removed as explained above. It was a duplicate of total_energy (*1000) and announced to be obsolete for more than a year now :slight_smile:

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there’s probably some stuff to change a bit on emoncms part to integrate those new data. But they are published indeed. ( but “wh” that has been deprecated for total_energy )

btw, volt is ‘voltage’, I have to check this one if it wasn’t published before with the old evse energymeter call. You confirm it is missing ?

edit: I have just checked and voltage is still in the published data so should be there.
“elapsed” seems missing, i’ll fix that It’s marked as deprecated for “session_elapsed” but it’s still published in /status ( missing for emoncms I’ll put it back until it’s removed )

edit2: I have updated the build in the gdrive folder.

I love the new interface. It’s much cleaner & clearer that the previous one.
Thanks to @Guillaume_S the 3phase and PV divert it working really well.

I’d suggest 2 minor changes to the text on the interface though

  1. When divert is not active it says ‘Disable’ This should be ‘Standby’. Disable implies the feature is turned off, ‘Standby’ implies waiting.
  2. The label ‘Production’ could be changed to something else, maybe ‘Generation’ or ‘PV’. When the system is used in Grid I/E mode, Production doesn’t make sense as it is not what PV is producing, but rather excess to the grid.

Outstanding job on it, so much cleaner, and easy to digest the information presented. I think this will pass the ‘wife’ test easily.
Having the configuration in one place is also great.

Fantastic !

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Confirming voltage is working. But session_energy and total_energy not working.

I agree emoncms stuff needs updating, plus I probably do not have the latest.

But at the moment, due to loss of wh and session_energy and total_energy not working, there are no working energy feeds to emon (but MQTT is okay).

@doggy, use latest version of the build I’ve posted, it should be ok

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FjYBbFW2SXE_5jxBuc-knzxWo3vFwJwK&authuser=hotlobster75%40gmail.com&usp=drive_fs

No, not working properly.

  1. If I disable and re-enable energy monitoring in your UI, it sends one update of total_energy and session_energy but no more.

  2. Even if I stop and restart charge, no update.

  3. So the only time I get total_energy and session_energy is when I disable and re-enable energy monitoring.

mhh are you sure you’ve updated since I’ve fixed it ?
Looking at the code now it should be ok ( file is named openevse_wifi_v1_4.1.8-dev-0.3-KipK.bin

openevse_wifi_v1_4.1.8-dev-0.3-KipK.bin name and timestamp match.

So I definitely have the one you specified. But the problem is still here.

I’ll reload it again to be sure…