Home Assistant local integration for Ford Charge Station Pro (Passive ONLY)

[Aminorjourney]

After seeing @ericpullen's excellent work on pulling data from the Ford Charge Station Pro, I've spent a few days trying to a) teach myself how to write a Home Assistant Integration and b) how to bring that into reality and publish it on GitHub as a HACS compatible thing.

I give you "Ford Charge Station Pro Local" which I'm shortening to local_fcsp in Home Assistant.

I'm sure it's buggy as ALL HECK, and please be kind to me

You can see the GitHub here.

The integration pulls in data from Eric's library, then makes it more human readable. There's logic in the integration to determine if the vehicle is connected, charging, or powering the home. There's also logic to determine if the vehicle is preparing to power home.



Right now, it's only passive, but if we can figure out how to send current change limits to the station in the same way that Eric's figured out how to poll data, we're in business .

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[Vypurr]

Very nice! I don't have a charge station, but it's neat to see some local integrations for it

 

[Aminorjourney]

Just an update here. After a long weekend of hair-pulling, we have the first *stable* version of the integration.

https://github.com/aminorjourney/local-fcsp/

 

[theUNSTABLE]

So much has happened recently with Ford<Thing> and Home Assistant.

I wish I had time to improve things as `fordpass-ha` has been static for a while.
I've talked to someone who did a rewrite of a fork and exchanged information with him, he's been pushing updates and implementing things.

I, as usual, haven't had any time in basically the past year. I have some stuff locally, but don't really use it because its not stable.

There seems to be a good amount of work being done across various Ford things, and seems like a good amount of duplicated work. I feel like multiple people should collaborate on a single thing - but I'm not sure how people feel about that as it may be "their" repo, or "their" code and then BuyMeACoffe things etc.

 

[Vypurr]

I moved to this fork of the (your?) Ford pass integration, and it gets lots of regular updates which seem to meet all my desires.

https://github.com/marq24/ha-fordpass

 

[Aminorjourney]

I don't have a bunch of time, but this was kind of a holiday project. I've been using the fork of FordPass worked on by Marq - but that's the lovely think about open source/Github. If someone can make a version work when the original coder is unable to work on it, it's possible!

For this project, I'm sad that I've not got any of the networking stuff working other than pulling the Ip address and password for the unit. Maybe someone smarter than me can figure it out!

 

[JvdMaat]

I moved to this fork of the (your?) Ford pass integration, and it gets lots of regular updates which seem to meet all my desires.

https://github.com/marq24/ha-fordpass

Is that a current good one for fordpass? Based on this forum (some other thread), I am on v1.70 of https://github.com/itchannel/fordpass-ha. But it's been static without any updates. However it does work. So I am... content?
I would love more access though. There's a lot of things in the fordpass app I cannot see in HA..
While I appreciate that it's possible for anyone to work on a fork, I don't appreciate the fragmentation (which version should regular Joe Schmoe end users (like me) use?), and it would be nice if the various forks could be merged into a master version that multiple people can work on.

 

[Aminorjourney]

Is that a current good one for fordpass? Based on this forum (some other thread), I am on v1.70 of https://github.com/itchannel/fordpass-ha. But it's been static without any updates. However it does work. So I am... content?
I would love more access though. There's a lot of things in the fordpass app I cannot see in HA..
While I appreciate that it's possible for anyone to work on a fork, I don't appreciate the fragmentation (which version should regular Joe Schmoe end users (like me) use?), and it would be nice if the various forks could be merged into a master version that multiple people can work on.

It's worth noting that the authors are working together one this the one that Matthias has worked on (marq24) is an EV-centric one.

So much has happened recently with Ford<Thing> and Home Assistant.

I wish I had time to improve things as `fordpass-ha` has been static for a while.
I've talked to someone who did a rewrite of a fork and exchanged information with him, he's been pushing updates and implementing things.

I, as usual, haven't had any time in basically the past year. I have some stuff locally, but don't really use it because its not stable.

There seems to be a good amount of work being done across various Ford things, and seems like a good amount of duplicated work. I feel like multiple people should collaborate on a single thing - but I'm not sure how people feel about that as it may be "their" repo, or "their" code and then BuyMeACoffe things etc.

I'd love to see what I did (which isn't all that good) rolled into one of the other projects.

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