evcc Add-on for Home Assistant OS
Follow these steps to get the add-on installed on your system:
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Navigate in your Home Assistant frontend to Supervisor -> Add-on Store.
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Click -> Add-on Store.
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Click -> three dots -> Repositories.
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Click -> three dots -> Repositories.
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Copy "https://github.com/evcc-io/hassio-addon" Click -> Add
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Find the "evcc" add-on and click it.
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Click on the "INSTALL" button.
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Go to Information nenu in the "evcc" Addon and activate "show in side bar"
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Go to Configuration menu and select your working directory (example):
- config_file: /config/evcc.yaml - sqlite_file: /data/evcc.db!! BREAKING CHANGE with version 0.122.2 !!
/config directs to addons_config/[container-ID]_evcc (/addon_configs/<your addon's slug>) in Home Assistant. To access this new share in homeassistant you have to install at least verion 11.0.0 of Samba Share Copy your config from /config (in Samba share 11.0.0 /config is named /homeassistant) to addons_config/[container-ID]_evcc
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evcc configuration file evcc.yaml
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Copy https://github.com/evcc-io/evcc/blob/master/evcc.dist.yaml to your homeassistant /addon_configs/<your addon's slug> directory
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Rename evcc.dist.yaml to evcc.yaml (note: configure first to your needs the evcc.yaml or use a working configuration)
Location of "config" directroy in HA:
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!! NOTE !!
The Home Assistant Addon evcc is based on docker, there is no possibility to create a configuration file for evcc inside the evcc docker with "evcc configure"!
As a result of this a working evcc configuration is required.
To do this, perform the steps in the documentation of evcc to create a configuration file "evcc.yaml":