# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Alfen - Optimal Charging, Smarter Homes: Powering Efficiency for You and the Grid
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683
**Category:** Apps
**Tags:** app, homey-pro
**Created:** [February 15, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683 "2025-02-15T11:23:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 7
### Author:  [@F\_Van](https://community.homey.app/u/F_Van)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/121 "2025-02-14T17:51:41Z")
Yes, works again. Super!
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_Van\_Deursen](https://community.homey.app/u/Patrick_Van_Deursen)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/122 "2025-02-14T17:52:53Z")
Homey, sorry didn’t realize I needed to look in the Alfen eve app. Looked, but nowhere can I see this specific setting
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### Author:  [@fmb](https://community.homey.app/u/fmb)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/123 "2025-02-14T21:31:10Z")
@Patrick_Van_Deursen @MrDutchfighter
I just looked in the MyEve app on the iPad.
This setting can be reached by:
Advanced (top middle tab)
Autorisatie (authorisation) menu
Autorisatie option
There are serveral things which can be changed, one of them being Autorisatiemodus (authorisation mode).
I see 2 options:
1. Plug-and-charger
2. RFID
I don’t see a third option.
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_Van\_Deursen](https://community.homey.app/u/Patrick_Van_Deursen)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/124 "2025-02-14T22:23:26Z")
Found it. Had the eve connect app iso the my eve. Thanks for the pointer.
For me same only the two options
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### Author:  [@MrDutchfighter](https://community.homey.app/u/MrDutchfighter)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/125 "2025-02-15T10:29:27Z")
Thanks! Those are the two options supported by the Homey app as well. So don’t know what went wrong in your case. Tested it with my charger and seems to work fine (if you don’t fire to much commands and don’t have any other Alfen app open on another device).
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### Author:  [@F\_Van](https://community.homey.app/u/F_Van)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/126 "2025-02-15T11:04:13Z")
[https://community.homey.app/t/alfen-eve-single-pro-support/76738/123?u=f\_van](https://community.homey.app/t/alfen-eve-single-pro-support/76738/123)
Patrick, did you actually tried to charge when the system was changed by Homey, or did you only test if your card still worked? Perhaps the whole RFID was disabled, and you could charge without any card (plug and charge)?
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_Van\_Deursen](https://community.homey.app/u/Patrick_Van_Deursen)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/127 "2025-02-15T13:35:54Z")
I seems the system came in a locked state. for now I just see it as a “you tried too much and failed” scenario ;-).
The coming days will keep an eye open and see if it continues to function with the green/default switching.
I am assuming though, that if I turn off the RFID setting, that my provider will no longer see that I used my lease car, and will not reimburse me, correct. so that is only a setting for when you want to charge your not lease car?
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### Author:  [@MrDutchfighter](https://community.homey.app/u/MrDutchfighter)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/128 "2025-02-15T13:48:20Z")
> [@Patrick\_Van\_Deursen](#):
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> so that is only a setting for when you want to charge your not lease car?
Yes, or if you want friends or family to charge at your home without the added costs 🙂 Because most of these providers calculate your cost and add 21% VAT on top. So if you switch to plug & charge you can let others charge and send them a Tikkie afterwards based on the consumption you see in Homey 🙂 Think you can even make a flow for that 😃
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### Author:  [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](https://community.homey.app/u/Stijn_Van_Heeswijk)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/129 "2025-02-15T17:42:45Z")
I use plug & charge. My card is continuously registered in the charger. So all costs are neatly reimbursed by the provider. This can be set in the eve app.
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_Van\_Deursen](https://community.homey.app/u/Patrick_Van_Deursen)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/130 "2025-02-17T08:29:06Z")
Yesterday and today, the information in the app is not refreshing. Need to reset the app, after that it works fine again.
App seems to work fully, but can’t check as I am not home at the moment for the coming days…
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### Author:  [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](https://community.homey.app/u/Stijn_Van_Heeswijk)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/131 "2025-02-17T09:18:57Z")
The app needs to be restart in order to keep working.
I made a diagnostics report. Hope that helps.
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### Author:  [@Jeroen\_v\_H](https://community.homey.app/u/Jeroen_v_H)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/132 "2025-02-18T07:53:45Z")
Echt heel leuk dat deze app gemaakt wordt!
Ik heb geen zonnepanelen maar zou graag de auto willen laden op basis van dynamische tarieven. Op deze manier schakel ik al andere apparaten in huis en dat werkt heel goed. Daarvoor is het nodig dat er in de app bij ‘dan’ wordt toegevoegd ‘start of stop laden’. Zit dit in de planning om te maken?
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### Author:  [@F\_Van](https://community.homey.app/u/F_Van)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/133 "2025-02-18T08:26:52Z")
> [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Alfen - Optimal Charging, Smarter Homes: Powering Efficiency for You and the Grid](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/132):
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> Echt heel leuk dat deze app gemaakt wordt! Ik heb geen zonnepanelen maar zou graag de auto willen laden op basis van dynamische tarieven. Op deze manier schakel ik al andere apparaten in huis en dat werkt heel goed. Daarvoor is het nodig dat er in de app bij ‘dan’ wordt toegevoegd ‘start of stop laden’. Zit dit in de planning om te maken?
Hi Jeroen, from my understanding there is no possibility to stop and start, but the workaround is to limit the charging to 1A (not enough to charge) and increase it to high when you want to start again.
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### Author:  [@Patrick\_Van\_Deursen](https://community.homey.app/u/Patrick_Van_Deursen)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/134 "2025-02-18T10:03:48Z")
i confirm that this works indeed
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### Author:  [@MrDutchfighter](https://community.homey.app/u/MrDutchfighter)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/135 "2025-02-19T06:44:51Z")
> [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](#):
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> The app needs to be restart in order to keep working
Is this still an issue? I saw in your diagn report that the login/logout counter was only counting up (so it never logs out). After a restart this counter will be reset. But shouldn’t be needed (running here on my HP23 for days without needing to restart).
Do you have flows that set values dynamically to the charge station? And how often are they executed?
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### Author:  [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](https://community.homey.app/u/Stijn_Van_Heeswijk)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/136 "2025-02-19T09:43:30Z")
After a certain time nothing is updated and adjusting the charging mode is also not possible. sometimes after an hour and sometimes after a few hours. a red popup will then appear very briefly. it’s gone too quickly to read. I now restart the app every half hour. and then it works fine.
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### Author:  [@MrDutchfighter](https://community.homey.app/u/MrDutchfighter)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/137 "2025-02-19T10:45:31Z")
Sounds like a work around 🙈
Can you send a diagnostics report directly after restart of the app? And then another after a minute and then another after around 28 minutes?
Athom truncates the diagnostics reports, so if I have a couple I hope to find something in there that can indicate why it is not working properly on your homey.
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### Author:  [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](https://community.homey.app/u/Stijn_Van_Heeswijk)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/138 "2025-02-19T11:59:34Z")
I have now removed and added the device again and reinstalled the app. Wait and see if this solves it.
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### Author:  [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](https://community.homey.app/u/Stijn_Van_Heeswijk)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/139 "2025-02-19T16:46:33Z")
Edit:
I’ve had no time for this today. Now out for vacation. I’ll try again in one or two weeks.
Problem still there. I’ll try to make reports tomorrow. In this picture you can see that the app stops reporting
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### Author:  [@Stijn\_Van\_Heeswijk](https://community.homey.app/u/Stijn_Van_Heeswijk)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-alfen-optimal-charging-smarter-homes-powering-efficiency-for-you-and-the-grid/130683/140 "2025-03-03T13:07:44Z")
Good afternoon.
Back from vacation and I see there have been a few updates. I tested all day today and everything continues to work without an app restart.
Good work, I’m very happy with it! Thank you!
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