charger-simulator's Introduction

EV charger simulator. Supports OCPP/J version 1.6 and OCPP/SOAP version 1.5. Can be used as CLI program, or as library in any JS environment.

CLI usage

Getting started

Install in project

yarn add charger-simulator

or globally

yarn global add charger-simulator

Then launch it with command

charger-simulator <URL to central system>

You can also run from a cloned git repository

yarn start <URL to central system>

On successfull launch, you will get this message

debug] OCPP connected
[info] Connected to Central System
[info] Supported keys:
    Ctrl+C:   quit

    Control connector 1
    ---
    a:        send Available status
    p:        send Preparing status
    c:        send Charging status
    f:        send Finishing status

You can press keys to send connector status updates to central server.

CLI options

charger-simulator

  Start OCPP charging station simulator, connect simulator to Central System
  server.

Options

  -s, --csURL URL                 URL of the Central System server to connect to, ws://server.name/path.
                                  This is also a default option.
  -i, --chargerId ChargerId       OCPP ID to be used for simulating charger.
                                  Default is 'test'.
  -c, --connectorId ConnectorId   ID of the connector to send status when pressing keys.
                                  Defaults to 1.
  -t, --idTag idTag               ID Tag to start transaction.
                                  Defaults to 123456.

Default behavior

By default simulator implements following OCPP operations.

RemoteStartTransaction. Will successfully start new transaction. Call RemoteStartTransaction by server will result in StartTransaction and multiple MeterValues to be sent to central system.

RemoteStopTransaction. Will stop running transaction.

GetConfiguration. Return charge point configuration. ChangeConfiguration. Change charge point configuration.

ReserveNow, CancelReservation, Reset. Return 'Accepted', but do nothing.

All other methods are not implemented.