Yeah, the swtich aviability seems to be OK. For instance, right now the Status Description states, “Waiting for car demand” and indeed the swtich is not available, that seems to be consistent with mywallbox UI experience:
But 1hour ago, when was charging, the following was happening (let me try to describe it by bullet points for better understanding):
Car is charching and switch is available ON HA : OK;
mywallbox UI gives be a “Pause” button to allow me to pause the charging process : OK;
On HA UI, the switch should be “ON” and keeps “OFF”.
If I toggle it once, it keeps “ON” and the UI on mywall is updated;
Returning to the mywallbox UI, if I toggle it to pause;
On HA, the swtich keeps “ON” altough my expections is to see the switch returning back to “OFF”
My assumption, is that due an authenticatoin error (line 960 described above), the code is not able to retrieve correctly the status\or resume the operation of charging. Happy to help you on the debugging if needed.
Testing this one, seems to resolve the switch state well done
I would just recommend to add other state as well “Scheduled”. Most part of us, have schedules on this wallbox’s and you may jump in a situation that you want to force the charging outside your scheduled - makes sense ? Meaning, I want to be able to resume\start charging when the state is “Scheduled”, so the switch needs to be available on this situation as well. Did some changes and it’s working great.
Other question I have, it may help have a better control over the charging process via node-red since it’s a numeric value, the Current Mode is always 1, I don’t find much information about the Wallbox API, do you know if this state changes ? Of course we can control using the Status, but once more using a numeric fielf would be easier.
I can add ‘scheduled’ to the code, that way the switch is available when scheduled. I don’t know whether the API Will accept the commando hoever, but we can try… Regarding your 2nd question, there is also a status ID, might that work for your purposes? I could include that…
Cool, that would be great. It does accept, on my tests yesterday I was able to start a charging process when the status was “Scheduled” and if we think, it wouldn’t make sense to reject it. I should be allowed to charge the car when I want. Around the status ID would be awesome. If you could add that and a short description of which one of them would be amazing helpful.
Veric Nice job on that Wallbox !
For info we began to do the same job on the cheap BESEN/MOREC B20 wallbox … starting to do reverse engineering on the Wallbox protocol https://community.home-assistant.io/t/besen-b20-evse/405737
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@hesselonline Just a quick shoutout, I had my first EV delivered a month ago, they took a few weeks to install the wallbox, and I was watching this thread and had tried the custom components, but the state description was broken by then.
Just ran up the new custom compnents version and it is working perfectly! Pause and Resume was a must in my use case, as I have Nodered polling the solar at home and adjusting the amps accordingly, so my charging stays within my free solar generation. Now I can stop entirely when lots of clouds come over and it kicks off again on it’s own.
Wallbox has accepted the charging power over Wifi disapearing as a bug and will be solving this in a future firmware release. This is a start, but I got no indication when we can expect an update.
Keep you posted.
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Hello, I’m currently using the official integration, I guess the OOTB, but I would like to try the custom to have the pause switch.
What do I have to do to use the custom?
Thanks in advance
