Extend Charging Schedule with Recurring Charging Events

[diestrohs]

The current charging schedule has been extended to include recurring charging events and has been added to the current API with documentation.
Please implement the retrieval and setting of the recurring schedule in the integration

[marq24]

sure - something have been added to the documentation - so please dear developer just make the diff & research yourself - lucky enough this is a hobby project... At least you asked gently - but sorry without further details and a short use-case description 'why this would become useful in HA' I would not implement anything right now...

Please note, that I might be currently a bit hangry ...

[diestrohs]

Hi, I know that such development is very time-consuming and takes up a lot of personal time. I, like many others, am very grateful to you for doing this work.
I believe it makes sense to plan and visualize tasks in Home Assistant, but leave the actual control to the executing instance. This ensures that all charging plans are synchronized in EVCC and that execution still takes place even in the event of connection interruptions. I see a similar approach for robotic mowers, vacuum robots, irrigation systems, etc.
Do you already have an idea of how this could be implemented in Home Assistant? Since HA handles complex objects rather poorly, this would probably have to be done with a sensor that contains a JSON description, or could it somehow be solved using attributes of a sensor?

[marq24]

IMHO it does not make a lot of sense to implement all settings/switches existing in the EVCC GUI also as HA entities... I did that once in my Waterkotte integration [where you can also setup a schedule for each day of the Week - this ended in an explosion of over six-hundred-fifty entities - yes that insane amount! - https://github.com/marq24/ha-waterkotte?tab=readme-ov-file#waterkotte-schedule-adjustment-support]...

With the latest release you have access to the current active plan information - this should be IMHO enough to display some information in HA (concerning what's next...)... You have also the option (e.g. via automations) to set/modify/delete the current (next) plan...