Control EVDUTY brand EV Charger?

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Hi,

I have just started going down the rabbit hole of Home Assistant. Installed it yesterday with a couple of basic zigbee sensors to test the waters.

I have done the basic light automation (on time or on door detection), I have used a helper to setup an automation to report if my freezer stopped working and have a few water sensor to install to detect leaks.

I was going through all the things in the house seeing what can be done. I have also gotten Sinope Smart Thermostat (Zigbee) as they are given free here in Quebec if you subscribe to flexible rate.

In order to meet quotas there and get the for free, I need to lower my power consumption during peak times and one of the main thing remaining would be charging my car. I have a KIA and the UVO connect thingy is really bad and it costs like 20$ a month.

I can also simply control the EV charger through the app, but I was searching for a way to control it via home assistant. Since it’s made in Quebec, mainly for Quebec, there may not be a big enough market for it and I can’t find an integration.

All I find is this github that seems to only have python code and… apache license info.

I have no clue what it can do or how to use it. Others I have found gave you a repository link to side load, but this one has no instructions.

Anybody used it? Or know how I could try to add it and see what it does?

Thanks

TL;DR: got an evduty EVC30 EV charger, it can connect to an app with wifi to be controlled, but I’d rather skip the app and control it with Home Assistant. Is there anything to do with the linked github?

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Update: i found how to create the custom component, but the code is apprently broken and uses a deprecated API (Evduty-free vs Evduty-api). Tried fixing it with Claude.AI as I have no clue how to update it and after trying a few things it just told me it can’t be fixed without a lot of work.

RIP.

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I have nothing to add, other than thank you for following up here with what you found. Saved me learning all the same things. I’d like to hook my charger up to Home Assistant as well but it’s going to be a while before I have time to fork someone else’s repo and update it.

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Hi Andrew, I eventually got it to work, but EVDUTY really did not put much effort into the reporting, it is a bit of a mess of sensors. However, I can still control when it can charge the car and when it can’t reliably, so that’s all that really matters.

I have used the OCPP protocol and integration to set it up. There is a document on EVDUTY website about setting up the OCPP protocol.

I have not toyed too much with it, there are way too many sensors exposed and only a few seem to report real data.