If you want to put together a charging station for your electric car yourself, you can usually save a lot of money. In that case, you need an EVSE, for example the open source SmartEVSE from manufacturer Stegen. Various firmwares are available for this controller, such as the original one from Stegen, or an alternative version developed by the community with all kinds of extra functionality. Dingo35, known here on Tweakers, contributed to the latter, and he is currently the only active developer. Dingo35 has decided to fork the project and release it under its own management. Version 3.6.0-RC1 has been released and the release notes are as follows:
Release v3.6.0-RC1
This release has a LOT of changes, although most of them are “under the hood”; we switched to the mongoose webserver library, thus getting rid of a lot of “old”, no longer maintained libraries. This not only gave us a faster and more efficient web server, it also gives us a more flexible way to the future.
Also it enabled us to get rid of the “spiffs.bin” flash, so from now on you only have to flash firmware.bin; the spiffs.bin files are stored in gzip form inside the firmware, and are served gzipped too…. We also moved the mqtt library to that server, reducing code and improving efficiency.
Other changes:
- power users can now upload a rfid .txt file to load their SmartEVSE's with allowed NFC tags
- Improve API response when feeding EVmeter
- Upgrade to espressif 6.6.0, emodbus library 1.7.1,
- Improved coredump facilities for developers
- Remove DELETE constraint on /erasesettings API
- Fix display of top line messages of RFID reader submenu
- We now lock the actuator when you are delayed charging
- We now overrule delayed starttime when POSTing new mode for more consistent user interface
