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calcharge

calcharge is an addon to andig's evcc.

calcharge

With calcharge you can use a standard ical calendar in order to plan charging sessions for your electric vehicle. Calendars can either be self-hosted (e.g. using radicale) or using services like teamup.

Function

Within a configurable time interval, calcharge contacts the ical server where the charge calendar is hosted and tries to load events within the next 24 hours. Calendar events need to have a summary field of the form "SoC xx%", xx being the desired state of charge at the start time of the event. calcharge also subscribes to the MQTT broker where evcc publishes its data. calcharge subscribes to the topic "evcc/loadpoint/1/socCharge" which represents the actual state of charge of the vehicle.

The difference between target and actual soc multiplied by the battery capacity (to be provided as config parameter) gives the energy which needs to be still charged in order to reach the desired target soc. The remaining charge time using maximum power of the wallbox (represented by evcc mode "now") is calculated. This time interval is subtracted from the desired event start time and gives the "point of no return" time.

If this time is still in the future, the evcc charging mode is unchanged. As soon as this point appears in the past, the evcc charge mode is changed to "now".

With every new value of soc, the point of no return time is adjusted using the new actual soc.

This algorithm has been described by Timo Reimann in the evcc slack channel.

Installation

As evcc, calcharge is written in Go, so a go compiler is required. Clone the repository and build. Change the config.yaml file according to your needs.

Remarks

calcharge is still work in progress. Tests in a real-world hardware environment are still missing. Since I am new to Go, the code is certainly not very elegant; please provide hints for improvements.

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