SmartEVSEv3 connection for Home Assistant
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Install HACS if you have that not already running; you'd want it installed anyways to have access to all those wonderful custom_components....
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From the main menu, select HACS, select Integrations, select Explore & Download repositories; enter "smartevse" in the search box, follow instructions to download.
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Restart Home Assistant, and, very important and often forgotten, RESTART YOUR BROWSER! Really close your browser window and reopen it. F5 is not enough!
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After restart, from the main menu, select Settings, select Devices & Services (or wherever "Integrations" are mentioned); you will probably see your SmartEVSE installed.
If not (because you don't have mDNS configured on your HomeAssistant Server, you have your SmartEVSE on a different vlan/network segment than your HomeAssistant Server, or other network mis/nonstandard configurations):
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Select "add integration", enter "smartevse", and from then on follow instructions.
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Restart Home Assistant, and, very important and often forgotten, RESTART YOUR BROWSER!
The main advantage of this installation method is that HomeAssistant will inform you of updates.
- Copy the folder
custom_components/smartevse/to your homeassistant config directory. - From here on follow goto 3. of the above HACS Installation method.
After installation and restart your SmartEVSE device should be discovered. If not:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Integrations
- At the bottom right, click Add Integration
- Search for "smartevse-3"
- Fill in your 4 digit serial number (if the integration didn't find your SmartEVSE-v3 already!)
- Save
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For automatic discovery, your SmartEVSE device needs to be pingable by mDNS: ping SmartEVSE-xxxx.local where xxxx is the serial number of your device.
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This will only work if your SmartEVSE device is
- a version 3 device,
- running version 1.5.2 or higher from the serkri firmware (https://github.com/serkri/SmartEVSE-3/releases); The serkri firmware is deprecated, from v1.8.0 on development proceeded in https://github.com/dingo35/SmartEVSE-3.5/releases (community, bleeding edge) and https://github.com/SmartEVSE/SmartEVSE-3/releases (Stegen Electronics, stable). Version numbering between those repo's are kept consistent.