Recent content by altexa

Agree. It was supposed to be compulsory, so I bought a couple, but then they dropped the requirement For a lot of non-rapid chargers on the Freshmile network you can pay as you go by flashing a qr code on the charger itself and paying by card. It is usually slightly more expensive though. Also...

The largest I've seen are 405 watts. I have 12 of them (so 4860). Installed them myself in April (i'm in a bungalow with a single-slope, not very steep roof, so it was doable). Highest production i've seen was 4300 watts, realistically around 3.75k in summer. On a sunny day at the moment i'm...

I really know nothing about charging infrastructure in the UK - feel free to blow me off if it's nothing like what I'm going to describe. Where I work there are no less than three separate shopping centres within a 15 minute walk to my office. One of them has granny-charger style chargers...

TBH home assistant looked complicated to me ?

the solar power monitoring thingy is a webpage, so i download that webpage as a text file: wget -q http://192.168.1.26 -O $zepath/index.html (ignore the $zepath) Then I look for the line I want ("Last System Power") and extract the value: val=grep -A 1 "Last System Power" $zepath/index.html...

I have a 6a granny charger which then is 1400 watts approx...coupled to my solar panels, so charging the car never costs anything - coupled with a little script on a raspberry pi which asks my solar setup how much i'm producing, and then turns a shelly smart plug on or off, if i'm producing at...