IsabellenhuetteIemDcr¶
Handwritten Documentation¶
Module implements Isabellenhuette IEM-DCR power meter driver, connecting via HTTP/REST.
Implementation details¶
This section offers some additional information on driver implementation. The underlying HTTP communication functionality is mainly duplicated from other open source powermeter modules of EVerest to support a standarization of this interface later on.
Initialization¶
It begins with checking some plausibility measures on the handed configuration. Its default values are given in manifest.yaml. Please make sure to explicitly specify values that deviate from default configuration before starting the driver. If there is no conspicuousness in configuration, HTTP communication is verified with GET requests on /gw node. In case of no success, several retries are performed (as specified in config). On success POST /gw is issued for transfering CI, CT and datetime to IEM-DCR. Please note, that issuing POST /gw is only possible once after IEM-DCR power-up. So CI and CT are frozen until next power-cycle and datetime will be automatically updated using another node (POST /datetime) in configurable intervals. Therefore a warning will appear on EVerest console if CI and CT are already written and could not be updated. After this procedure the initial tariff text is transferred as configured. This will show up on display before a charging transaction.
Live values¶
Each second the MQTT variable Powermeter is updated to current values of /metervalue node. Also the public key is made available via MQTT.
Start transaction¶
Starting a transaction will terminate any other running transaction (if there is one). The status type TransactionRequestStatus:: NOT_SUPPORTED is returned, if given evse_id does not match CI (which was already transfered in initialization phase) and if IEM-DCR is in error state. Please refer to retrurned TransactionStartResponse.error for distinguishing between them. Starting a charging transaction will engage POST /user and POST /receipt. Please note that IEM-DCR automatically handles signed data tuple pagination. So the only place for transaction id defined by the charging station is the OCMF ID attribute. It will be filled from this driver with TransactionReq.identification_data. If this optional attribute is not given or empty, TransactionReq.transaction_id will be used instead. Please note that a transaction cannot be started while the sensor unit detects a current above activation treshold. Please refer to operation manual for details.
Stop transaction¶
If a transaction is in progress, it will be stopped and its signed data tuple returned. If no transaction is running, the last signed data tuple will be returned. Therefore input parameter transaction_id of this routine has no impact on its operation. Please note that TransactionRequestStatus::UNEXPECTED_ERROR may be returned, if no transaction is in progress and there has also been no transaction before. Please also note that a transaction cannot be stopped while the sensor unit detects a current above activation treshold. Please refer to operation manual for details.