How to connect Electric Vehicle Charging Station over OCPP 1.6 communication?

Before adding a new OCPP device to Reduxi Configurator, please check if your device is reachable over a TCP/IP network connection. You can use the Settings -> System -> Tools -> Ping test in Reduxi Configurator. Once the device is reachable over the network, please follow the next steps:

1. Log-in to Reduxi Configurator

2. Click Add device

3. Select EV charge device type and OCPP 1.6 - JSON communication type.

4. Enter Device identifier - this is generated manually by you

Important note. Please enter the same generated device identifier also at the device configuration.

5. Connector - if the EV Charging station has multiple connectors, please select accordingly 

5. Select the Energy counter

Do you know if the energy is summed for all sessions or if energy is calculated per session? please select accordingly or choose default if you are not an advanced user.

6. Allocate power to EVSE when EV is not connected to EVSE

7. Forward communication to the backend OCPP server
Reduxi Controller is now the main back-end OCPP server; you need to insert URL address of your OCPP back-end server here as Reduxi will proxy messages to your OCPP back-end server from EV Charging station.

8. Allow new charging sessions when the backend OCPP server is unavailable

9. Controller OCPP JSON 1.6 URL
Please copy generated Controller OCPP JSON 1.6 URL to your EV Charging station configurator.

In case the OCPP connection is not working, please contact us at support@reduxi.eu. From our experience, we have found out some devices have specific OCPP implementation and need extra handling in our code to support their edge case.