Background story: had an OpenEVSE since 2021. But it was hidden in the crawl space under the house since then. No attached cable, it was a Type 2 socket installation.
Recently got an issue with the aforementioned female Type 2 socket (no more ground, faulty lines, etc…) so I decided to move everything back into the sunshine.
That’s not the prettiest installation, but it’s working and the attached cable makes it way easier to use.
Next step would be to move it inside an old gas pump for decoration and laughs!
Curious about the automations? Linked to solar panels?
I connected mine to Home Assistant via MQTT but could find any meaningful use to it since.
One use I have is when frigate sees a car in my driveway and it’s not plugged in to send me an alert right before bed time. Before I had a vehicle I could do a proper schedule on the vehicle settings I had scheduled charges for my EV and used HA to add extra charge before a trip.
Well I have a unique situation where I have a bunch of large loads on the same circuit so I just use the EVSE as a sort of load balancer, along with a whole home energy monitor, so it will automatically decrease charging current when large loads come on.