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What Is EVerest

EVerest is an open source modular framework for setting up a full stack environment for EV charging.

The modular software architecture fosters customizability and lets you configure your dedicated charging scenarios based on interchangeable modules. All this is glued together by MQTT.

EVerest will help to speed the adoption to e-mobility by utilizing all the open source advantages for the EV charging world. It will also enable new features for local energy management, PV-integration and many more.

The EVerest project was initiated by PIONIX GmbH (Pionix at LinkedIn) to help with the electrification of the mobility sector and is an official project of the Linux Foundation Energy.

If you are into LinkedIn, make sure to follow the EVerest project there: EVerest project on LinkedIn

Where to Go From Here: EVerest Compass

Testing and setting up EVerest

You are currently on the main documentation page of EVerest. This is the right place to learn about understanding how things work together and how to test EVerest.

Just read on through all the sections and you will find a Quick Start Guide, more detailed explanations about the EVerest modules concept and tutorials.

Contributing to EVerest

EVerest is an open source software and has also a very open community around it.

“Open community” means that you can join discussions, thought exchanges and prioritization meetings without dedicated registration or allowance. See below for all the communication channels that can be joined by you right now.

To learn about contributing to the source code of EVerest, read our contribution file in the main EVerest repository .

If you rather want to contribute to the documentation, you should have a look at the Documenting EVerest page <documenting_everest>.

There are quite a few other resources that you might want to check out:

Communication channels

Zulip chat

On the Zulip instance of Linux Foundation Energy, there are chat channels for EVerest.

This is for thought exchange, for questions and talks about dedicated work on EVerest topics. Feel free to to drop your own questions and dive into communication with other EVerest enthusiasts.

There are different channels in Zulip for different topics of EVerest. Please use them to structure the communication.

Read the README channel in Zulip for more information about the different channels.

The Zulip instance of LFE is the best place to be near EVerest development and EVerest thought exchange.

You can find us here: https://lfenergy.zulipchat.com/

Mailing list

Another way to connect to the steadily growing EVerest community is the mailing list.

We have set up two separate mailing lists:

  1. The most important one is the announcement list. Important news or events all around EVerest are shared there. Subscribe here: EVerest announcement list .

  2. Optionally, you can subscribe to the detailed mailing list with all developer’s exchange: EVerest mailing list .

If you do not want to ask your questions in the Zulip chat, you can use the detailed mailinglist to get your questions answered.

Weekly tech meetup and working groups

Since the beginning of 2024 we organize our community and development exchange in the format of working groups. The formerly called weekly tech meetup is now one of those working groups. Now, we simply call it “General Working Group”.

Those are all EVerest working groups:

  • General (for general topics and to get a common ground for updates from the other working groups)

  • EVerest Framework, Infrastructure and Tools - the FIT working group (which is a merge of the former “Framework & Tools” and the “Testing & CI/CD” working groups): All about tooling, testing, the CI/CD pipeline and the framework of EVerest.

  • Car Communication (car/charger communication with topics ISO 15118, EXI, SLAC, CHAdeMO etc)

  • Cloud Communication (communication between charger and backends in cloud with topics OCPP 1.6, 2.0.1, 2.1 etc)

  • Energy Management

  • MCS (Megawatt Charging System)

You might wanna join us in the general working group to meet the community without having focused on a special area of EVerest (yet).

For the General Working Group, meet us here each Tuesday at 4pm in CE(S)T time-zone:

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/92086494169?password=b2df6774-bc19-46f9-8c71-bbd13a0266a1

To see links to the meetings of all other working groups, see the publicly available LFE EVerest calendar:

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/everest

Additionally, you might want to join the working group chat channels in Zulip. See the “Zulip chat” section above to see how to get there!

Special Interest Group “EV Charging”

Linux Foundation Energy (LFE) is growing. As the EVerest project (and all other LFE projects) have several connecting points to other projects in the same field, a Special Interest Group (SIG) has been created for

  • exchanging thoughts and experiences,

  • share best practices,

  • discuss industry trends and

  • tackle challenges together.

If you work in the field of EV charging and you are interested in open source software / projects, join the SIG calls. They are free to access and open to all interested parties.

Join the mailing list: https://lists.lfenergy.org/g/ev-charging-sig

Directly access via Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/92797425199

1:1 meetup

The first step into the EVerest community should be checking out our Zulip chat.

Should you have problems entering the community, we are happy to help you. Just book a meeting via the link below. Of course, this is optionally. You are allowed to join the Zulip sessions and also take part in the working group meetings without registration.

Hint

In this 1:1 meetup, we will not talk about technical topics. We will rather see where you should start in the community if you have problems entering the meetups or the discussions.

Just book a 30-minute meetup here: EVerest Community Onboarding via Google calendar

You will be talking with a community manager of the EVerest project.

Tech resources about EVerest

Find the source code, current Pull Requests and an issue tracking on our home at EVerest repositories on GitHub .

For getting at least a rough overview of the things we already implemented and what is planned for the near future, see our roadmap on GitHub .

With our YouTube Channel channel, you can stay up-to-date with webinars and get insights from the Technical Steering Committee recordings.

And last but not least, also have a look at section FAQ And Best Practices in this documentation page to find topics that sometimes people get stuck with.

Find Your Way Into EVerest Development

If you want to choose video rather than text and code for a quick dive-in, have a look at our webinar first:

Screenshot of the webinar video How EVerest Ecosystem simplifies Charging Use Cases

Click for watching on YouTube: Webinar: How the EVerest Ecosystem will simplify Charging Use Cases

We prepared a path to get step by step into the EVerest world. It will lead you from a high level overview right into understanding how to implement modules for your dedicated hardware scenarios or developer use cases.

To walk this path, simply read on and follow the table of contents below.

Table Of Contents

But now let’s dive in the EVerest journey to get you on board. Start on top level with the first chapter and walk the path down to your first module implementation.

Indices and tables