API integration

I had a go at getting this integration installed and with a fair bit of help from the good people on the HA user forums* I have it running.

Working on some dashboards, but the nice thing with this is I can have a dashboard operating on both my and my wife's phone whereas iSmart is limited to one device at a time. Indeed there may never be a need for iSmart.

Will use something like this for a phone dashboard:



We don't need defrosting, so left those control out. I can still get them via the main dashboard if ever needed.

Some prettying up with a pic of the car etc might be nice.

As to the rest of it, it's a work in progress.



Be interested to see what others have come up with.

Charging is managed with ChargeHQ at present but I think ultimately I may bring that into Home Assistant as well as I have so many considerations for optimising use of our power supply - a combination of using our solar PV most of the time but also the tariff free energy windows our electricity retailer provides on weekends.

* My process/experience starts here and goes on for some number of posts back and forth nutting out the issues:

I note my SAIC MQTT feed went offline this morning a bit after 5AM. Not sure if that's a connectivity issue or something else.

I am able to log in using the iSmart app, so not sure what's up.

Edit: I restarted the add on:
SAIC MQTT Gateway (Python) (legacy)
And it seems to have come back to life.

And on this, with the dozens of variables it is curious the ones not available which are via an OBD reader, e.g. Battery State of Health, cell voltage minimum, maximum and delta.

Phone dashboard so far:

Looks very impressive. Is this something the masses can use or is it too complicated?

Fireman frog said:

Is this something the masses can use or is it too complicated?

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Both

Put another way, if Home Assistant is something you use now or plan to, then this can be a nice add on, but I wouldn't be setting up Home Assistant just for this.

I'm 2-3 years into my Home Assistant journey and I'm not an IT/comms guy so learning has been bit by bit. But the communities are good and helpful and it's been a useful hobby.

Home energy monitoring and management is the main use case for me, plus convenience of managing a range of things such as lights and fans etc from the phone. Now I have installed this integration I have an EV page (as well as the one for the phone):

I have a dashboard with all sort of stuff on it. Still needs organisation and it's a bit ugly, some people have designed all sorts of amazing looking dashboards with animated vehicle images but that's all beyond me.

There is lots of info is available, as well as control over various functions. It would be possible for instance to do some charging automations with this if you just wanted to use a basic charger and a suitably rated smart switch. I don't need that as I use ChargeHQ with my OCPP charge station.



When I build up enough courage I hope to also bring my charging automations into Home Assistant. I have all sorts of parameters to consider for charging and while it is very good ChargeHQ can't cover for them all.

The mere fact I my Home Assistant now has access to state of charge data for the car is a big plus.

wattmatters said:

Both

Put another way, if Home Assistant is something you use now or plan to, then this can be a nice add on, but I wouldn't be setting up Home Assistant just for this.

I'm 2-3 years into my Home Assistant journey and I'm not an IT/comms guy so learning has been bit by bit. But the communities are good and helpful and it's been a useful hobby.

Home energy monitoring and management is the main use case for me, plus convenience of managing a range of things such as lights and fans etc from the phone. Now I have installed this integration I have an EV page (as well as the one for the phone):

I have a dashboard with all sort of stuff on it. Still needs organisation and it's a bit ugly, some people have designed all sorts of amazing looking dashboards with animated vehicle images but that's all beyond me.

There is lots of info is available, as well as control over various functions. It would be possible for instance to do some charging automations with this if you just wanted to use a basic charger and a suitably rated smart switch. I don't need that as I use ChargeHQ with my OCPP charge station.

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When I build up enough courage I hope to also bring my charging automations into Home Assistant. I have all sorts of parameters to consider for charging and while it is very good ChargeHQ can't cover for them all.

The mere fact I my Home Assistant now has access to state of charge data for the car is a big plus.

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Sounds very impressive. Where should I start? What additional apps do I need etc?

Cheers

Fireman frog said:

Sounds very impressive. Where should I start? What additional apps do I need etc?

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