Would anybody be interested in being able to activate and de-active the Solar Charging?
For me that seems a nobrainer you want to have when you want to optimize usage of your solar power, but you also need to switch grid charging when planning longer trips.
@walter-ve - I think many of us (myself included) have implemented our own Solar Charging algorithm, so thereâs little point in asking Wallbox to activate and deactivate such a function. Personally, I find itâs best to avoid the Wallbox app and Portal entirely. I will never be updating my Pulsar Plus firmware again.
Same for me
The problem is that the wallbox 3-phase version can only be asked to work in 3-phase. In Solar-mode it can work in single phase (I only know of this approach to have it work in single phase). 3-phase means that it charges at minimal 4kw. Meaning that for solar charging one needs at least to have 4kw solar to maximize solar input.
That is why for me being able to activate/deactivate solar charging in the wallbox is an advantage to optimize solarcharging.
Possible to say if you use the 3-phase or single phase version?
Hi Walter,
I have a single-phase Pulsar Plus. It is definitely better for solar charging as you say.
If you switch off 2 of your phases using a contactor, you could make your 3-phase charger run in single-phase mode, whenever you like. Iâm pretty sure we have discussed this possibility before.
I dont think this is available on the pulsar plus. Its available on newer models after upgrades to 6.6 but that bricks local control.
I donât really own my wallbox; I am not going to temper with it. I can understand it is a nice idea.
Note: at the moment there seems to be a bug in the wallbox that allows you to force 3-phase to charge single phase.
Steps:
What do you mean that is not available?
I have no need for the local control ;-).
Pulsar plus is either 3ph or 1ph, no software option to switch in fw 6.4 - yours is a pro, thats a newer model.
Whatever suits you, and seeing you dont own it i understand⌠charger producers are however experiencing financial difficulties. wallbox already went through a financial reorg. If they discontinue the cloud local control is a life saver.
Good remark; i wasnât aware they had actuall models with real different feature. I thought the only difference was the mobile connection. My bad.
Can you post a screenshot of the settings in the app or my wallbox? To see if I can use it with the Copper SB?
Sorry; what exactly would you like to see?
Setting screen in solar where the mono charging is activated
In Dutch and some English terms. I hope it is clear like this.
Edit; it is the setting about âActieve fasenâ -active phases. Which you can toggle between 1 and 3 pjase charging.
Edit bis; the extended status API gives also this status. But I didnât find a way to toggle it via the API.
Thanks Itâs very clear. I donât have it on the Copper SB.
Has anybone successfully integrated a WALLBOX PULSAR PLUS consumption sensor ?
There is no such important sensor,
but the mywallbox cloud has all these basic figures we really need inside HA and do not have yet.
I need a wallbox consumption inside HA in 2024 where everyone has a energy map where the biggest load and consumer is missing: the charger
The only kWh sensor available right now by the integration is the worst you can get:
kWh by charging session - useless for me
The sensor has also a terrible and wrong tranlsation called âadditional energyâ in german âzusätzliche Energieâ instead of charged energy / geladene Energie.
I am pretty disappointed that the manufacturer does not care and the HA developer also ignore the weakness of this implementation.
Here is a screenshot of the only kWh sensor provided by this integration which is a big mess and you can take a calculator to sum it up manually.
Looks like we had 13 charging sessions which means 13 continous charging events where the charging can be paused during night and continued with surplus energy the other day as 1 session. Technically right, but useless for me. I need a Wallbox Energy counter which is available inside the Wallbox and is providing all the kWh consumption figures for the wallbox cloud.
Here is a request for this basic kWh counter which all Wallbox owners should vote for that things get changed.
Right now I have nothing what I need. I would need to buy another eastron SDM72 modbus kWh meter to get those figures into HA - or sell the Wallbox Pulsar Plus and replace it with a serious wallbox with a good HA integration !
Be carefull with those ideas cause WALLBOX is developing their products shipped constantly cause we suffer from that stupid move. They sell the Pulsar Plus for 5 or 7 years with the same product name, but the internals have changed big times.
We have bought ours in 2023 and now we are waiting for a firmware upgrade to 6.x for months cause surplus charging is not working due to false OCPP iimplementation by Wallbox which we know cause some owners of the newest verison have already gotten that firmware version and have no longer the ocpp issue we are suffering from.
So whatever you wanna share might and will depend on your hardware version if others can use it too or not. It took months to figure that out till someone in another forum out of nowhere suddenly replied that his charger is working OCPP compliant after he had gotten a firmware 6.x which is not available for the majority of other users and we were not aware of.
There is the HA Energy Dashboard; isnt that what you are looking for?
Just add the wallbox consumption to it and it will start tracking the energy consumption.
For my info; for what would you like to use the info you are after?
There is no such sensor for it. No real wallbox pulsar plus energy counter.
Only the one that I showed above: a kWh counter for each session
I simply wanna get the wallbox Pulsar Plus consumption till today like
8 kWh today
18 kWh this week
180 kWh this month
Simple as that but I need an energy consumption counter for that.
6 kWh last session is a mess. Worthless.
