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 With at least two EVSE's on the market, WallBox and EVDuty, you can buy an associated current transformer that can be installed to measure the total current being delivered to your home's electrical service entrance. Their current transformer is able to communicate to their EVSE controller to throttle EV charging current to ensure it does not cause the home's service entrance to become overloaded. when the electrical load on the service entrance subsides to some degree, the current transformer senses this and enable the EV charging current to quickly throttle up to take advantage of available headroom within the charging limits that have been set for the EV. In my home I have a 200 amp entrance and most all of the time I have sufficient capacity in my service entrance to fully meet the needs of both my home and an EVSE but there can be rare times in winter when my service entrance could become overloaded were it not for a feature such as I just described. If I had to upgrade my service entrance, where I live it would mean going to 400 amps which would be ugly to look at and cost over $6000. The current transformer accessory available from EVDuty or WallBox can save me from this. I like your EVSE, I like the OpenSource concept, why don't you offer such an accessory so I can buy your EVSE? With EVDuty they can have two of their chargers safely share the the benefit of their current transformer device.

I don't have a home energy management system beyond some thermostats, HRV control, windows and curtains. Your competition offers a $400 Canadian device that measures the service entrance current and communicates by home wifi to the EVSE's from the same device provider. Settings are done from a personal computing device (e.g. a phone) with a browser on the home wifi network. You get status lights on all the devices, diagnostic and status messaging plus documentation to interpret and manage it. No programming is required and I don't know if they use MQTT protocol. Perhaps you can offer VERY specific device(s) to enable the equivalency I have no doubt you can achieve?

It would be nice if this could be done in OpenEVSE and not require an external service. What happens with the power draw if the external service stops responding?  What is the time out period?  How often is the pooling? I would hate for the car to be charging and then the external service become unreachable, then a large load is turned on in the house which puts the houses panel over its limits and trips the main breaker.  If the CT's can reach the panel then it would make sense to have the solar and house usage CT's be directly wired in to OpenEVSE. 

The link 

https://guide.openenergymonitor.org/integrations/ev-charging/

goes over how emonTx4 works but there is no mention of how it integrates with OpenEVSE.  

It would be nice if this could be done in OpenEVSE and not require an external service. What happens with the power draw if the external device becomes unreachable.  How often is the power pooled?  How often is the power usage updated? It would make the most sense from a reliability standpoint that the CT's where directly wired in if they are able to reach.  

The link 

https://guide.openenergymonitor.org/integrations/ev-charging/

goes over how emonTx4 wrks but there is no mention of how it integrates with OpenEVSE.