FAQ
To help the community, please let people know your inverter brand and charger API you got working with SolarCharger.
See this thread.
Please see this and this for reference.
Use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device for local control of Tesla without cloud. See tesla-local-control/tesla_ble_mqtt_docker installation note. Similar suggestion from this thread. See note from pkuehnel on Bluetooth device placement. Try SolarCharger, select Tesla BLE device.
Please enable the hidden entity in device diagnostic section. It is more efficient to use "Force update charge" instead of "Force update all". Reference
Set "Wait update HA" to 25 seconds if using "Tesla BLE MQTT" device.
Please use esphome-tesla-ble v2026.2.1 or above, and then enable following hidden sensor,
sensor.[name]_charge_port_latch_state
Please try turning on the "Poll charger update" switch.
See vehicle sleep for polling and cost. See suggestion.
No. Choose only one of them because they create entities with the same names, ie. *, *_2, *_3. Please delete all these integrations and then reinstall only one of them. See this discussion for more info.
Between 50% and 100% inclusive.
See here.
Please read this.
Easiest way is to use single instance of OCPP central server to manage all charger instances (see screenshot). If using one instance of central server per charger, most likely will need separate key files for each instance of central server, otherwise OCPP will only send change current commands to the last created charger instance.
See this.