I don’t think I have that option in the app. Where would that be?
Maybe only on Windows, i’ll look in to that later today. I have it working for my self!
You are using the Eve Connect APP?
For this option you need to use the MyEve app.
Try this.
If this is not enough, than it should be done with the Windows app. .
Thank you so much !! That indeed changed it.
You wouldn’t believe the incompetence of my service provider and the unwillingness of them to help me change this setting (or even knowing that setting exists). I was always under the impression that I couldn’t change that setting myself and needed installer access (and accountdata).
Good to hear that it’s working now!
The people at the service providers you get to talk to usually don’t know what they are talking about.
They are not the tech people behind the product.
I could not login to the Eve Connect app on my Iphone and could not connect to the charger in the Alfen Homey app. Reason? I was logged-in on the ACE Service Installer on my desktop PC at the same time. So be aware that you have to log-out first there!
Hello RuyteRo,
Wanted to get you input on a similar input that i have, Alfen charger with connection to Numobi/50five solutions. The load balancing control between the charging station and OCP is done via SIM card on my side and you were mentioning that you linked it via network cable to your own network to be able to control. I want to do something similar and was wondering is/was it not a problem to have both SIM and network connected to control the charging station since I would assume the Alfen can only be connected to one network?
Thank you in advance for any information or tips you might have.
My Alfen is connected to Eneco by sim and connected to Homey bij cable. No problem!
Hi Fred
I don’t think loadbalancing of the Alfen will be done via ocpp by Numobi.
Loadbalancing will be done by connecting your Alfen to an energy meter in the fuse box or the digital energy meter’s P1 port.
It is no problem to connect the Alfen to your local network, while there is als a Numobi SIM.
The Alfen will just use 1 of those 2 connections to connect to Numobi (which is actually the Last Mile Solutions network). There are settings where you can choose which connection needs te be used for the CPO connection.
This is how it’s working at my place for 2.5years now
So I have been playing around a bit with the charger. The behavior is actually not what I expected. What I see now is default = two phases (2.6kW) and Solar = one phase (1.3kW). Boost mode gives me three phase full power.
I actually expected the charger to read the smart meter and increase the Watts on output when more solar power is available, but it doesn’t. So that it balances with the smart meter and does not send anything to the grid. Maybe I have missed a setting somewhere.The comfort level actually doesn’t work either.
But the phase switching does help a lot. So basically I wrote a flow that checks the surplus and I let it choose between two phase and one. It switches back if the shortage becomes more than 1.3kW and chooses the solar mode. If the solar mode still uses more than 1.3kW I can switch the charge off as there is no surplus (unless I press the override).
I don’ understand your problem at all.
In my flow, the charger does everything by itself. Everything between 1300W and 11000W
Thank you appreciate that information, as i was hoping it would be for my use-case!
Hey RuyteRo,
You are correct, i expressed it wrongly, the load balancing cable is indeed plugged into my P1 port but I saw that the settings for it are done in the ACE service installer and that was something the 50Five technician did when installing it. Since i will have my PV/battery connected later this month i want to actively monitor and control everything and while preparing i bumped into your post from a few years back and that got me thinking that you could answer that question for me.
Much appreciated!
The technician indeed used Ace Service Installer software to configure your Alfen charger. The software is Alfen’s software.
If you want to reconfigure your Alfen, you will need that software as well. And a user/password to login into the software. Plus, the owner password for the charger itself. Normally you should have that last one on the white/blue flyer that came with the charger
The software itself can be downloaded from Alfen website. You can login using Post : prEze8.
How are you going to monitor the Alfen?
Is see 2 posibilities
- install a HomeWizard kWh meter in the fuse box next to the fuse of the Alfen.
- use an EMS to read data from the Alfen
To do the second, you will need to change configurations on the Alfen and need the Ace Service Installer software to do so.
In the Ace Service Installer software, you can find a setting for the loadbalancing.
Here you can select
- Meter: loadbalancing is done by the Alfen by reading the digital meter
- Meter + EMS: same as above, but you can have read access to the Alfen data from an EMS
- EMS: full controll for the EMS
Most of those prerequisites are fulfilled:
- Software download: check
- Password for software: check
- Password (flyer) for charger: check
- Using Smartgateways to read P1 data (MQTT into HA)
- EVCC add-on (in my case using HA as home automation)
My main bottleneck for the moment is getting the network connection setup in my garage (25m away from meter room) and once that is done I will let you know how it all worked out.
Many thanks for the guidelines!
Perfect.
I also used the Alfen with evcc for most part of the past 2.5 years.
But since my HA instance crashed some time a go and I haven’t had time to setup a new one and slo because the Alfen does solar charging by itself ánd because I am testing an EMS from my work, I havent used EVCC in a while
I will try and help where I can.
In the app it states ip adres…that is known by me.
But login admin??
I can login to the Alfen but what credentials does this app need in homey?
the code is on your documentation (read from post #55 here in this thread)
