This is the weekly general LFE EVerest call for all topics not covered by the working groups.
Meeting Notes:
19 March 2024
- New member intros
Tim Weisenberger and Oscar Marcia from SAE EVPKI initiative joined to introduce themselves.
SAE executed EV PKI pre-competitive research project from 2020-2022 with several member companies
-Contracted EONTI and DIGICERT as technical experts for implementation
Project moved to SAE industry consortium group (506c entity under US law)
Current members of consortium include: GM, Ford, Tesla,Rivian, Electrify America and Chargepoint
PKI system is designed to be global, supports ISO15118-2 and -20
Certificate policy was published in 12/2023 and is available for download: https://www.sae-itc.com/programs/evpki/access-download
More details at: https://www.sae-itc.com/programs/evpki
For questions contact Tim: Tim.weisenberger@sae-itc.org - EVerest feature freeze:
EVerest 2024.3 feature freeze on - expected 2024-03-19
Starting 2 weeks before the next release with TSC on 2024-03-28
Branch off a release candidate branch of everest-core (and possibly some libraries depending on the activity)
Focus a bit more than usual on testing and bugfixing on that branch for the next 2 weeks
Merging of new features into main will not be affected by this - evlibISO15118 by Roger Bedell:intended to be replacement for EV-side of JOSEV for ISO15118-20
Was developed by Roger to test implementation of ACDP portion of -20 - IoT.Bzh shared https://github.com/tux-evse/iso15118-encoders
- Qwello merged support for ISKRA meters. Chargebyte had support for these meters in its close-source stack in the past.
12 March 2024
- Shankari introduced Benny and Mayuresh from Idaho National Labs/ChargeX Consortium - working on OCPP Minimum Required Error Codes implementation: https://inl.gov/chargex/mrec/
- ChargeX published Best Practices for EV charging payment systems: https://inl.gov/content/uploads/2023/07/chargex-Best-Practices.pdf
- New WG chair Janek Metzner (PIONIX), starting 2023-03-19
- Proposal to delay WG by 30min starting 2023-03-19 approved
Discoussion around handling meter transactions:
- we add signed meter value var to the powermeter
- the start transaction will return quick, would't wait for real walues
- we add optional start metr value, to sessionfinished event.
- the start meter value will be stored in the evsemanager, and published on sessionfinished event
- no changes to OCPP lib/module at the moment
Action Items:
- Janek: Update meeting time.
5 March 2024
Discussed Eichrecht (German calibration law). Specificly wait with start charging untill signed start meter value is received.
JOET has an open PR: https://github.com/EVerest/libocpp/pull/452
Put on agenda cloud communication
Action Item:
- Robert: Share link to OCA Eichrecht Whitepaper on Zulip.
- Robert: Put https://github.com/EVerest/libocpp/pull/452 on March 6 Cloud Communication agenda.
- Dan: send Robert list of PR to discuss in Cloud call.
6 February 2024
- Action Item: Robert: Put sending signed meter values on Cloud Communication call agenda.
- LED strip HMI: should this be part of EVerest? Currently seen as a customization on top of EVerest.
- Where to discuss release, time of releases and pull requests. Use the "Everest" Stream in Zulip. For a call it will be the General and Q&A call.
- When new multi repo pull requests or larger feather change is coming. Please start a discussion on Zulip and align with the maintainers so we can streamline and plan the work.
- Agreed with proposed way of working for meeting minutes. Use hackmd for now as note taking tool and store them on the EVerest wiki.
- Action Item: Piet: Nudge Cornelius for the ISRA Meter, Evgeny is going to work on a pull request this week.