Jörg has been blogging about smart home, solar and electric mobility on meintechblog.de since 2011 and regularly streams on YouTube with the PV-Quartett, a group of fellow enthusiasts from the energy scene that he founded. At his home in Schwäbisch Hall a 100 kWh DIY battery, direct marketing of his solar power and three wallboxes run side by side, connected through MQTT, Loxone and evcc. Photographer Detlef paid him a visit.
Moove is the new mobility podcast by the German car magazine auto motor und sport. Hosts Luca Leicht and Gerd Stegmaier regularly talk about electric mobility, new vehicles and everything around the mobility of tomorrow.
I was a guest on the latest episode and explained how evcc brings together solar, wallbox, EV and home battery.
Since the last highlights post two feature releases have gone out: 0.315 and 0.316. This post covers both. The big topics: the charging modes got a new structure with Smart and Always charge, the home battery page has been reworked, the new Solar share slider replaces the confusing watt thresholds, and the optimizer keeps getting closer to taking over control.
Great news for Škoda drivers: Škoda is launching an official consumer API. Access works with a token that you create in the MyŠkoda app. We already support the new API.
Just four weeks after the last highlights post we are back. In the past, our posts were usually several months apart. We are planning to change this. In this blog post, we give an overview of what is new in evcc: the new release process, optimizer progress, config UI improvements, interface customisation and more.
Half a year has passed since the last highlights post. A lot has happened since then with releases 0.301 to 0.311: a new navigation, widgets in the iOS app, remote access, time-based statistics and much more. In this blog post, we pick out a few of our highlights and give a brief outlook on our further plans.
On April 18, 2026, we met for the first evcc community meetup at the Osnabrücker Ruderverein rowing club. Around 40 participants joined us, coming from Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Some traveled all the way from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
The Solar Storage Systems research group at HTW Berlin has launched evcc-Crowdscience — a platform where evcc users can anonymously share their charging data for research purposes.
Late summer last year, GitHub approached us about participating in the Secure Open Source Fund. We applied, were selected by the committee, and joined 98 maintainers from 67 open source projects for an intensive security program.
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. This blog post is the first portrait in this series.
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.
At the end of April, after a long break due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 19th Linux Infotag took place. The Infotag is an open source community event organised by the Linux User Group Augsburg e.V. (LUGA).
Right on time on 11 January, release 0.111 brings a few new features that we’d like to briefly introduce here.
Another seventeen releases have gone by since our last update here on the blog. As always, a lot has happened. There were some bug fixes, but also many new integrations and features. More on our highlights of the last few months in a later blog post.
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).
Our core developer Andreas Linde and our user Tjarko Tjaden gave pv magazine Germany an interview on mastering the interfaces to wallbox and solar system with an open source charge manager.
Updates keep coming this year too :) In addition to the smaller updates in 0.78 and 0.79, version 0.80 brings a few bigger changes.
On the final stretch of 2021 there’s one more update with a few bug fixes. After all, the year should end on a positive note ;)
Before the end of the year, here’s one more update with a few new features.
Today’s update is a small one, mainly with some bug fixes and further improvements.
The interface now shows you the timers running in the background:
Today there’s a small update, mainly with some bug fixes and further improvements.
A lot has happened over the last few weeks, and today we’d like to tell you in a bit more detail what’s new to discover in version 0.72.
evcc now has documentation and this blog, and today we’d like to introduce both of them in a bit more detail.
On 6 March 2020 andig brought evcc to life with the first commit. He could never have dreamed of the path this project has taken since then. More than 1,300 commits later, with 369 stars, 90 forks, 34 contributors and more than 70 releases, evcc keeps on growing.
