Detecting Electric Vehicle (EV) devices

Not only the EV’s.
Solar is getting more popular, and in california since april of 2023, you need to install batteries in order to have a faster ROI (return on investment).
Hybrid inverters have become really popular (sol-ark/LuxPowertek/EG4).
Problem is that Sense doesn’t work with them, matter of choice of design.
It is a programming matter, but they plain refuse to do anything about it.
Sense once was a great startup, with a lot of potential.
I doubt they ever made a profit.
So they are in need of new rounds of funding every so often.
They should have been bought by a large company now that would have enough resources to continue development.
I think they are currently just scraping by and do the most obvious things, but there is simply no budget to really improve.

Imo, atm, sense is nothing but an advanced power meter with some extra’s if you have the right setup:
-conventional grid tied solar only
-a “supported” EV (I had a tesla Y charge at my location a couple of times, no detection yet!)

I have no more expectations that Sense will pull a rabbit out of it’s hat any time soon.
They simply are unable to it seems.

Oh well, it is what it is.

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