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QuickApp: Charge Amps HALO - With Smart Charge function


JcBorgs

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Created a QA to control a Charge Amps HALO car charger, also added a Smart Charge function that can be used if you have the Tibber Monitor QA installed.

 

To be able to use the QA you must request a API key from Charge Amps (just send an email to 

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) and to be able to use the Smart Charge function you must have the Tibber Monitor QA (developed by SmartHomeEddy) and an account with Tibber.

 

Here are a general overview of the QA: 

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QA Configuration

In the variables settings in the QA you need to change:
email - provide the e-mail you use to login to Charge Amps

pwd - password for your Charge Amps account

apiKey - the API key you get from Charge Amps

TibberMonitorQA - The ID number of the Tibber Monitor QA in your HC3

 

 

**** DEVICE CONTROL ****

In the top section of the QA you have controls for the Charge Amps HALO device where you can much as in the iPhone App from Charge Amps turn on and off the charger, outlet and change the different lights on the HALO device. Rather basic functionality.

 

**** SMART CHARGER ****

In the lower section of the QA you control the Smart Charge function of the QA. 

 

Select the hour you want the calculations to be done (default is hour 20) and also select how many hours you want the charger to be active (default is 4 hours).

The QA will then at the selected time look on the energy prices for the coming 11 hours (limitation in Tibber Monitor) and select the block of 4 (or the amount you select) which will be the cheapest block of hours to use.

 

When the calculation is done the QA will control the Start and Stop of the charging.

 

If you for some reason dont want the charger to become active for a day or more you just press the Pause button in the QA and then press the Resume button when you want to start to use it again.

 

 

 

This is the first “Production” version of the QA, have a list of features to be added and will update this thread when they are implemented.

 

 

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Nice work!
Have Easee charger, so I hope to get some ideas from this.

But the Tibber function and calculation, do you use that also to in other scenes to control heating it your house? 

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  • @dorten75

    Thanks! No currently I only use this in this implementation, but could certainly be used for other stuff..

     

    It should be possible to implement this for other brands of car chargers, the code are segmented rather clearly so one could replace ChargeAmps control with Easee control.

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    @dorten75 I have Easee Charger too, i created a quickapp for that, but i dont finished yet. 

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  • Information:

    As there is a new version of the Tibber Monitor QA in the making, as soon as that has been released then a new version of this Charge Amps HALO QA will be released.

     

    News in the new version:

    - Support for the new Tibber Monitor QA

    - Possibility to set the amps used to charge the car (from 1 to 16 Amps)

    - Longer period of possible charge hours. Today there is a limitation to find the cheapest block of X hours within a 11 hour timeframe (limitation in current Tibber Monitor). This will be removed and you can now freely choose when the calculations should start and also choose a time when the charging must be completed.

     

    Working on these feature for a later release:

    - Turn on power 30min before departure time to allow the usage of electricity instead of battery to “Heat up” or “Cool down” the car

    - Add an information field that shows how much electricity that was used during the last charge and at what the cost was.

     

     

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  • Due to some “code cleaning” work the new version of my QA has been a little delayed but will hopefully be ready in the coming days.

     

    The new version are fully compatible with the new Tibber Monitor QA and gains some advantages with that. 

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  • Here is the new version of this QA.

     

    Variables that need to be configured:

    - Username : Provide your ChargeAmps username

    - Password : Provide your ChargeAmps password

    - API KEY : Provide your Charge Amps API key

    - TodayHour00QA : Provide the Child QA number of the 'Today 00:00' Child QA in the Tibber Monitor QA

     

    News in this version:

    - IMPORTANT!!  This QA now requires the new Tibber Monitor QA to function!! 

          

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    - You now configure when the charging at latest must be completed. You also set the time when the calculation should be done and the QA finds the cheapest block of X hours between the Calculation time and the time when the charging must be completed. In earlier version of this QA this was limited to 11 hours from calculation time.

    - It is possible to choose how many AMPS should be used during charging

     

    So in the example below it is chosen that the car should be charged with maximum 16amp, the charging should be 4 hours long. The calculation to find the cheapest block of 4 hours is done at 18:05 and the charging must be completed at latest 07:00.

     

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