Charge Amps for Home Assistant

This repository contains a Charge Amps component for Home Assistant.

The module is developed by Kirei AB and is not supported by Charge Amps AB.

Installation

Installation via HACS (recommended) or by copying custom_components/chargeamps into your Home Assistant configuration directory.

Supported Hardware

• Aura
• Dawn
• Halo

Configuration

The component requires configuration via the Home Assistant configuration file. The following parameters are required:

chargeamps:
  username: EMAIL_ADDRESS
  password: SECRET_PASSWORD
  api_key: SECRET_API_KEY

The default is to configure all charge points for the account. To only include some charge points a list of charge point IDs can be provided using the chargepoints parameter (a list of strings).

N.B. You will need an API key from Charge Amps Support to use this component.

Entities

Each Chargeamps chargepoint connector will be represented as a sensor with the current status of the connector as the state. Each connector will also be represented as a switch that can be used to enable/disable the connector.

Lights (downlight/dimmer) appears are represented as lights.

Additional sensor attributes

• charge_point_id
• connector_id
• total_consumption_kwh

Additional switch attributes

• charge_point_id
• connector_id
• max_current

Additional light attributes

• connector_id
• light_type

Services

The following services are implemented by the component:

• set_light -- set charge point lights
• set_max_current -- set max current for connector
• enable -- enable connector
• disable -- disable connector
• remote_start -- start a charging sessions when RFID lock is enabled
• remote_stop -- stop charging sessions when RFID lock is enabled