Is Evcc functional?

[creative567145]

1. We installed Evcc

2. We see this notification:
   Run evcc detect or evcc configure for initial setup. Then restart the app.

3. We went in the EVCC - Terminal and have run both commands and this is the result:

Connecting...
root@448da2a9-736b-4cc3-9370-1e160d939387:/app/code# evcc detect
This account is currently not available.
root@448da2a9-736b-4cc3-9370-1e160d939387:/app/code# evcc configure
This account is currently not available.
root@448da2a9-736b-4cc3-9370-1e160d939387:/app/code#

Since there isn't any post in this category (except for the Package Updates post), has anybody configured Evcc and confirmed it's functionality?

[robi]

Try running it from /app/data

[creative567145]

Thank you @robi for the fast response. We tested that and the result is the same

[robi]

Then I would take a look at their docs instead (as we don't seem to have any): https://docs.evcc.io/en/docs/installation/configuration

May have to create your .yaml config file manually.

[nebulon]

I did package that for my parents back then and it used to work fine, though they moved on to some other system and thus at least I have no use-case for it. Since upstream has changed configuration since then quite a bit, maybe the current package isn't working as expected anymore. If someone has a use-case to actually make it do something, would be great if we can fix up the bits in the package.

[creative567145]

Thank you both @robi and @nebulon

Got it working.

Here are the steps in case if anybody wishes to replicate the process.
It would help a lot to the new Evcc users if the package includes the mentioned changes already.

Steps:

1. Installed Evcc
2. Click: File Manager
3. Click: New > New File
4. Name it this text: evcc.yaml
5. Click: Restart App
6. Refresh the web browser window. A new file will be created named: evcc.db
7. Open the file: evcc.yaml
   There is already a text like this inside:

network:
  schema: http
  port: 7070
  host: evcc.demo.cloudron.io
database:
  type: sqlite
  dsn: /app/data/evcc.db

Click enter 2 times to be able to write to a new line bellow

8. Copy-paste the text from here:
   https://docs.evcc.io/en/docs/installation/configuration#manual

This is the text:

## minimal configuration example

site:
  title: Home # display name for UI
  meters:
    grid: my_grid
    pv:
      - my_pv
    battery:
      - my_battery

# define your loadpoints according your needs
# see https://docs.evcc.io/en/docs/reference/configuration/loadpoints
loadpoints:
  - title: Garage # display name for UI
    charger: my_charger # charger
    vehicle: my_car # default vehicle

# meter definitions
# name can be freely chosen and is used as reference when assigning meters to site and loadpoints
# for documentation see https://docs.evcc.io/docs/devices/meters
meters:
  # replace with your real grid meter
  - name: my_grid
    type: template
    template: demo-meter
    usage: grid
    power: -1000 # 1 kW feed-in
  # replace with your real solar system
  - name: my_pv
    type: template
    template: demo-meter
    usage: pv
    power: 4000 # 4 kW production
  # replace with your real battery
  - name: my_battery
    type: template
    template: demo-battery
    usage: battery
    power: -1000 # 1 kW battery charging
    soc: 50 # 50 % state of charge

# replace with your real charger
# see https://docs.evcc.io/docs/devices/chargers
chargers:
  - name: my_charger
    type: template
    template: demo-charger
    status: C # charging
    power: 2000 # 2 kW charging power
    enabled: true # optional

# replace with your real vehicle (optional)
# see https://docs.evcc.io/docs/devices/vehicles
vehicles:
  - name: my_car
    type: template
    template: offline
    title: blue e-Golf
    capacity: 50 # in kWh

# enter your real grid tariff and feed-in price
# see https://docs.evcc.io/docs/tariffs
tariffs:
  currency: EUR
  grid:
    type: fixed
    price: 0.29 # EUR/kWh
  feedin:
    type: fixed
    price: 0.10 # EUR/kWh

9. Click: Save + Restart App

10. Click on Evcc (URL)

11. There we can see Demo data for: blue e-Golf - charging

Add a new Admin password
Click: Configuration + Add the password again
Click to activate the Experimental features

After this hopefully, the changes can be performed directly inside Evcc via the web browser UI.
If not, the evcc.yaml file will have to be edited manually,
because these terminal commands still aren't working: evcc detect + evcc configure

Hope that was useful

[robi]

Looks like the package needs a config update to not be broken on installation