Elli (Volkswagen) in overview page #7757
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My suggestion: when I first read about the project and had a glimpse on the overview I did not recognise the Volkswagen Wallbox in your list of supported devices. I propose to say "Elli (Volkswagen)" there in the Overview. Thx for this nice project and your work. It works like a charm on my site with Elli (Volkswagen) ID. Charger Pro + Sungrow SH8. I use 1-phase loading with 6-16 Ampere. The configuration dialog on the commandline is comfortable. With your fresh release yesterday v0.116.6 also the connect status is fixed and works. Thanks for all that.
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The Wallbox is available with branding for Skoda, Cupra, Audi and VW and also as plain Elli, see https://www.elli.eco/de/privatkunden/produkte/wallbox In my opinion this change doesn't make it better. |
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In general I'm in favor of using the names the products are used in sales and marketing by their vendors. The fact that these three wallboxes are available in five brandings each creates a little product explosion in our listing. But from a users perspective It's not clear that theses are all the same box. Correction: This only affects two boxes: "Charger Connect" and "Charger Pro", not the simple "Charger" which isn't controllable. |
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It's even more confusing than I thought: "Elli Charger Connect" seems to be the same as "Audi Wallbox plus" 🙈 |
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If I didn't make a mistake this is the result:
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Had trouble to push my changes there. That's why I've created a new PR and close this one. Further discussion please in the new one. |
My suggestion: when I first read about the project and had a glimpse on the overview I did not recognise the Volkswagen Wallbox in your list of supported devices. I propose to say "Elli (Volkswagen)" there in the Overview. Also because there is a large "VW" logo printed on the front plate of the Wallbox, but no "Elli" logo.
Thx for this nice project and your work. It works like a charm on my site with Elli (Volkswagen) ID. Charger Pro + Sungrow SH8. I use 1-phase loading with 6-16 Ampere. The configuration dialog on the commandline is comfortable. With your fresh release yesterday v0.116.6 also the connect status is fixed and works. Thanks for all that.
Learned from evcc-io/evcc.io#16 that this would require changes in the main project. For this reason, creating this PR