I just acquired an Alfa Eve Single S charging station with Load Balancing enabled. It is running firmware version 6.5.0-4217. Browsing through this excellent thread to identify how to connect the charging station to HA, I noticed a persistent conclusion, unless I have missed something, that concurrent use of load balancing with P1 serial connection and Modbus TCP/IP for monitoring purposes would not be possible.
However, using ACE Service installer I identified the following possible settings with
Active Load Balancing ENABLED. Data source selection possible between Meter; Meter + EMS Monitoring and Energy Management system. Protocol selection possible between: Modbus TCP/IP; P1; Modbus RTU and TIC.
I assume that my requirement can be accomplished using the settings: “ Meter + EMS Monitoring” as source and “DSMR4.x” as protocol.
Unfortunately I can’t test this since my EV will not be delivered before March 2024.
Has anyone else used the above settings for the same objective? And could confirm validity?