I’ve successfully built my OpenEVSE kit which uses the new Beta for the ESP32.
Thanks to Glyn for help and advice whilst building it, and for the sterling firmware efforts to make the ESP32 version available.
My EV has arrived, and I am charging it with the OpenEVSE
So this post is feedback for the new Beta Wifi firmware 3.0.3, as well as an ask for help to get the Eco solar divert mode working.
I can report that I can charge fine with manual start and pause, setting current limit works fine, and using the timer for night time charging also works fine. I typically set the car to limit to 80% overnight, which leaves some spare capacity in case it is sunny whilst the car is outside during the day.
I have configured inputs and feeds to Emoncms and OpenEVSE is successfully posting to the inputs and the feeds look ok.
I have set up the Base Topic and Grid (+I/-E) topic as emonpi/power1 , and OpenEVSE reports connected:yes.
However, I cannot get the Eco solar divert to work, it never turns the charger on.(I set the car’s own limit back up to 100% so it will take charge). So I have been manually modulating the charge by adjusting the current limit in OpenEVSE whilst watching my solar app in EmonCMS. This works, but quite a faff!
I note that the charge mode status on OpenEVSE always reports Grid Import/Export as 0W, with a time in red since last reboot - so I suspect OpenEVSE is not getting the grid import/export feed. Mostly likely something I havn’t got set quite right.
Here is the OpenEVSE status screen with Eco mode selected, note the 0W Grid Import/Export:
Here is the Services tab showing how I have set up the MQTT stuff. The Solar PV divert status says connected:yes, so I guess I have my EmonPi password correct, when I had it wrong it said connected:no. Have I got this configured correctly?
Here are the EmonCMS inputs. You can see that the inputs from the OpenEVSE are updating ok, and also the emonpi/power1 input is updating, which is what I thought I had connected OpenEVSE to:
And finally here is the EmonCMS feed view. Seems to be working, you can ignore the non-working KW feed, which is just me experimenting with stuff:
So any suggestions where I have got it wrong gratefully received, if you need more info from my end I’m happy to delve into whatever logs might help.
Thanks,
Pete