I would like to buy a EV charger and I found one on AliExpress. It is from brand called Feyree and it says it has wifi app. Does anyone know if it is possible to connect it to HA? If yes, how?
Thanks
I have this one https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005005504929776.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.23205e5bVzPDi2&gatewayAdapt=glo2fra and Home Assistant (via SmartLife) cannot currently find entitiesā¦
Thank you for letting me know.
I have the updated version, it works perfectly in Tuya Smart, itās detected in Home Assistant Tuya Cloud, but the device is then shown as Ā« unsuported Ā» .
Oh, ok thank you
There has been development for the Feyree Tuya local api last year:
but it is unclear whether it has been completed or not.
Iām about to buy a Feyree too and hope it will work within the local Tuya api soon. Anyone already using Feyree with the local Tuya for HA?
I can confirm, make-all/tuya-local supports Feyree charger and you get all the sensors and control available.
HA native tuya integration does not work. You get devices but no entities. Maybe you can jump through some hoops to make it work but to be honest make-all version is as simple to configure as native integration but you get what you would expect.
Has anyone explored what can be controlled remotely via home assistant on the feyree charger?
Iām hoping to integrate with my solar to increase or reduce charge rate to use excess solar.
I suspect the portable feyree cannot adjust charge rate on the fly, not sure about the wall Mount.
Hi.
I bought a Feyree Fey123 and after installing Tuya local and adding this charger, I can see the sensors :
But I can send orders to the charger (start / stop charging, change charge current).
I tried to set up a duration first then send Charge command but nothing append and Duration slider return to 0 and action return to Waiting for command.
Just to be sure, my phone is the only one with Tuy smart app installed so I put it in Plane mode to be sure that Tuya app was not interfering with HA.
@mhalak how did you start / stop charge or change current ?
Thanks.
Sorry for delayed response. I use these controls you have listed.
āToggle chargingā always return to āWaitingā¦ā after selecting action you want.
Personaly I didnāt play with delay and duration options. I have my own solution implemented in AppDaemon which handles scheduling so I can set it up to start charging during cheaper tariff if some other conditions are met as well. Also, I control current so I can āboost chargingā when usual power hungry activities are done. I was always interested in the basic controls as I knew I would do more complex automations my way.
Duration and delay options are bad way to control charging as you have to set them case by case and highly depends on when you plug your car. Feyree could work on this to enable some proper schaduling but thats why we have homeassistant I guess
Hi everyone,
Apologies for bringing this topic up again. Iāve been using the Feyree WiFi smart EV charger for about a week now, and Iāve successfully set it up in Home Assistant using LocalTuya. However, Iām still trying to understand how the various sensors and controls work, and Iām aiming to achieve a clean setup, similar to what @mikebzh44 has done.
That being said, Iām running into an issue with starting and stopping the charging process. No matter what I try, I canāt seem to get it to work as expected.
Has anyone here been able to solve this problem? Any tips or solutions would be greatly appreciated!
Since a few people with a tuya-local EVSE are in this thread I will bother you with one question: Did you manage to change the amps dynamically while charging? If not, is it possible to stop the charging, change the amps, and then start charging again? I couldnāt find anything if a solar based charging with dynamic current like that would be possible.
Yes the amps are adjustable, dynamicaly while charging.
The only problem is starting and stopping the charging with tuya local.
I bought this 7kw single phase ev charger.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006061509862.html
this one on ebay looks identical.
mine has worked fine for a couple of months now.
start/stop via the app works fine,
adjust current during a charge session via the app works fine,
the timer delay start and time charge session duration do not work via the app for me.
I also find occasional start/stop commands to the app do not work. havenāt worked out a consistent reason why. I suspect data connectivity errors.
when I manually plug in, sometimes a charge session will start by itself. I havenāt worked out what conditions cause this.
Iām hoping to find a way to nominate the kw.hr for a charge session to stop at. just a nice feature - my ev battery has longer life when charged to 75% (save the higher % charges for when range is needed) and some days I want to schedule some expected kw.hr expected from the solar for other purposes, or just allow for a low PV output day and get some top up in the EV and ensure the house battery is full before sunset.
Hi Matthew,
I aquired a similar device (with the indicated smiley face with the status LEDs), but Iām not able to get the sensors to work. After successfully logging into Tuya via the HA integration, Iām able to select the device. But the automatic discovery fails. After that I get a prompt with the correct Device ID and a local key - but the IP-address is not filled out. With my network controller, I can look up the local IP-address, but it throws an error. āNo connection to the device possibleā. I also tried the external IP-address out of the app, but no luck either. Did you do some extra steps you could kindly explain to me or did it work straight out of the box?
Here is the prompt Iām talking about.
Hi Mikebzh44,
I have a same setup.
For a number of entities, I can determine the correct āplatform.ā
Whether it is a Sensor or a Binary Sensor.
I hope youāre willing to share your knowledge with me.