What is this?

A python script you can run to automatically stop and resume charging your electric vehicle depending on whether your photovoltaic system is producing power at the moment. It checks Kostal plenticore systems to control easee charging boxes.

Setup

Clone this repo
Download kostalplenticorepy as kostalplenticore.py (from the src folder of that repository)
Run pip install -r requirements.txt
Create authentication.py with these variables:
- kostal_ip = "Your kostal IP (without http)"
- kostal_password = "Your kostal password"
- easee_user = "Your easee username (phone number or email)"
- easee_password = "Your easee password"
- telegram_token = "Your telegram bot HTTP API token"
- telegram_password = "The password you will need to give your Telegram bot before you can control charging with it (you pick it yourself)"
Update the check_every_minutes and min_watt_to_charge parameters in settings.py if you'd like. (See the comments in that file for an explanation of the parameters)

Run python main.py

If you want to automatically run it on a server or raspberry pi, you can create a systemd service like this:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/easee-kostal-control.service

[Unit]
Description=Runs the easee-kostal-control python program
After=network.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/aulig/easee-kostal-control/main.py
WorkingDirectory=/home/aulig/easee-kostal-control
User=aulig
StandardOutput=append:/home/aulig/easee-kostal-control/systemdexecution.log
StandardError=append:/home/aulig/easee-kostal-control/systemdexecution.log

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/easee-kostal-control.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable easee-kostal-control.service
sudo reboot
Check if it worked: sudo systemctl status easee-kostal-control.service `

Aulig/easee-kostal-control

What is this?

Setup