I want to preface this by stating that I’m aware that the EVSE has had a bug in it’s firmware that prevented GivTCP to work with it over Ethernet. This was well known and was tracked as a known issue on the GivEnergy online portal/dashboard. I remember around a month ago that an update was posted, saying that this issue will be resolved on the next update, and the issue as now been removed from the Known Issues section, which i believe means that the issue is supposed to be resolved.
On my end, this clearly has not been resolved. The GivTCP container is still not able to access the EVSE via TCP Modbus on ethernet. My networking SDN controller clearly shows the EVSE connected to the IP that i’ve put down in the Add-on configuration. The Add-on logs are showing that the connection is being reset by the peer, indicating that I can’t connect to you. I am able to ping the device however, and I can use the EVSE through the app so it is connected to the interent and my network. My AIO/Gateway are accessible through GivTCP too.
I wanted to check if others are still facing this issue. Thanks
Honestly, the amount of issues I’ve had with this charger is honestly making me contemplate selling it and moving to another brand. GivEnergy should NOT be selling commercial products with half-baked software like this.
Hi. I realise this is an old thread but just in case you’re still struggling with this and on the assumption you are using Home Assistant / GivTCP I have recently managed to get this working by asking GivEnergy Support to upgrade my EVC firmware to v14 (which they did in real-time over the air) and then by manually removing my Home Assistant’s GivTCP add-on version 2.49 and installing GivTCP v3. I now have full local control over my EVC using Home Assistant. I wouldn’t argue with your comments about the state of the EVC software when it was first released though. Very poor! Good luck and hope this was helpful.
I’m now on AC_GL1_1.14
Maybe I was just lucky but, using the Support live chat option rather than email, I got an instant response and my EVC firmware was updated in real time.
I recommend giving live chat a shot if you can. Good luck!
