Alex is a driving instructor and has been using electric vehicles for driver training for years. With evcc, he controls two wallboxes for his private and company vehicles and is planning to integrate a Wolf heat pump for his 5-unit building. Photographer Detlef paid him a visit.
The SmartHütte Podcast is a technical, nerdy podcast about smart home, self-hosting and other tech topics. Hosts Andrej Friesen and Thomas Wiebe regularly discuss their experiences with Home Assistant, Kubernetes, hosting and everything else that interests them.
I was a guest on the latest episode and talked about the evcc project.
2026 is here and with evcc v0.300, the new year starts with probably the most important milestone: Browser-based configuration is no longer experimental. The most requested feature is finally ready for production use. New users can now set up evcc completely without command line or YAML files.
In this article, we look at the highlights since July 2025 and provide an outlook for the coming year.
Your car constantly collects data – but you can't access it. The EU Data Act, in effect since 12 September 2025, should change that. Reality looks different: Most car manufacturers offer no or very limited access.
We invite you to the first evcc community meetup! On 18 April 2026, we'll meet in Osnabrück to get to know each other, exchange ideas, and have a barbecue together. The Osnabrück Rowing Club kindly provides us with their facilities.
A large boathouse, showers for dozens of rowers and lots of roof space: the Osnabrücker Ruderverein (ORV) has found a way to reduce energy consumption whilst becoming more independent from fossil fuels using solar power and evcc. Photographer Detlef paid them a visit.
Tobias transformed his house in Trebur in southern Hesse step by step from a gas heating household into a largely energy-independent smart home. Photographer Detlef visited and took photos.
Time for a new feature roundup! I've selected a handful of interesting topics.
We've gotten to know many users from the community over the past few months. Today's portrait is a bit different: Photographer Detlef takes on the interviewer role and talks with Michael from the evcc Core Team.
The days are getting warmer. A good time for a new community portrait. This time, photographer Detlef visited Ulrike and Gunther in the beautiful town of Alzenau in Bavaria, Germany.
The evcc App is now also available on F-Droid. F-Droid is an alternative Android app store that only provides free software without proprietary dependencies.
We did it! The first version of the evcc app for iOS and Android is ready. It can now be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
With the release of v0.200, we've taken a major step towards stability and user-friendliness. In this blog post, we'll provide some background on the version jump. For dramatic effect, we'll save that for the end of the article ;)
We'll also introduce some new features that have been added since the blog post in November.
Starting with evcc v0.133, a Tesla Developer Account is required. The usage remains free of charge, but requires an additional setup step.
In our series of community portraits, photographer Detlef visited Olaf in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The days are getting shorter. A good reason to give a small update on what has been done since the last article in August.
In our series of community portraits, photographer Detlef visited Andreas in Wettringen in the Münsterland region.
In our series of community portraits, photographer Detlef recently visited Bastian from Ahlhorn, Großenkneten.
This is the third post in our series of community portraits. Photographer Detlef visited Tjarko from Großefehn at the Gröönlandhof. In addition to great photos, there are also interesting insights.
This is the second post in our series of community portraits. Photographer Detlef visited Christian from Trebbin this time and took some great photos.
Today, version 0.130 of evcc was released. Since it's been a while since the last release blog post, here's an overview of the highlights from the recent releases.
A couple of weeks ago, Detlef Heese from Osnabrück contacted us. He is a renowned photographer, electric car driver and owns a photovoltaic system. He offered to support the evcc project and provide us with professional photos. Therefore, at the end of last year, we started a call on GitHub to find interested users who would like to present themselves and their evcc setup for a community portrait.
The days are getting longer and solar charging is starting to be fun again. A good time for a short update on the latest developments at evcc.
Since the last blog post, a lot has happened. We have added many new features and fixed some bugs. In this article we will highlight some of the new features.
The charging planner has been around for a while at evcc. You specify when your vehicle should have a desired state of charge and evcc finds the best time slots. Since a few releases the algorithm is no longer a black box, as we visualize the planning result.
Ende April fand, nach einer langen Coronapause, der 19. Linux Infotag statt. Der Infotag ist eine Open-Source-Community-Veranstaltung, die von der Linux User Group Augsburg e.V. (LUGA) organisiert wird.
Pünktlich am 11.1. haben wir mit dem Release 0.111 wieder einige neue Funktionen am Start die wir euch hier kurz vorstellen möchten.
Es sind schon wieder siebzehn Releases seit unserem letzten Update hier im Blog vergangen. Wie immer ist eine Menge passiert. Einige Bugfixes, aber auch viele neue Integrationen und Funktionen sind dazu gekommen. Zu unseren Highlights der letzten Monate in einem späteren Blogartikel mehr.
It's been a few months since the last blog post. So it's time to give you a short summary and an overview of what has happened at evcc in the last eleven releases (v0.81 to v0.91).
Unser Core Entwickler Andreas Linde und unser Anwender Tjarko Tjaden haben dem pv magazin Deutschland ein Interview zum Thema Open-Source-Lademanager Schnittstellen zu Wallbox und Photovoltaik-Anlage meistern gegeben.
Auch dieses Jahr geht es weiter mit weiteren Aktualisierungen :) Zusätzlich zu den kleineren Updates mit 0.78 und 0.79, gibt es nun auch ein paar größere Änderungen mit der Version 0.80.
Auf den letzten Metern des Jahres 2021 kommt doch nochmals eine Aktualisierung mit ein paar Fehlerkorrekturen. Das Jahr soll ja schließlich positiv enden ;)
Heute gibt es zum Jahresende nochmals eine Aktualisierung mit einigen Neuerungen.
Heute gibt es ein kleines Update hauptsächlich mit einigen Fehlerkorrekturen und weiteren Verbesserungen.
Die Oberfläche zeigt euch nun die im Hintergrund laufenden Timer an:
Heute gibt es ein kleines Update hauptsächlich mit einigen Fehlerkorrekturen und weiteren Verbesserungen.
Es hat sich in den letzten Wochen viel getan, und darüber möchten wir heute etwas ausführlicher berichten was es alles in Version 0.72 an Neuem zu entdecken gibt.
evcc hat nun eine Dokumentation und dieses Blog und wir möchten euch diese heute etwas näher vorstellen.
Am 6.3.2020 hatte andig evcc mit dem ersten Commit zum Leben erweckt. Und er hätte sich nicht erträumen können was dieses Projekt bisher für einen Weg genommen hat. Über 1300 Commits später, mit inzwischen 369 Stars, 90 Forks, 34 Contributors und mehr als 70 Releases wächst evcc immer weiter.
