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| | |Founded=2014 | ||
| | |Industry=Energy, Electronic Vehicles | ||
| | |Logo=Eo.png | ||
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|Type=Public | |||
|Website=https://www.eocharging.com/ | |||
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'''EO''' is a company founded in 2014 in the UK providing electric vehicle charging infrastructure - "on a mission to accelerate carbon-free transportation". | '''EO''' is a company founded in 2014 in the UK providing electric vehicle charging infrastructure - "on a mission to accelerate carbon-free transportation". | ||
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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]]. | This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]]. | ||
=== | ===Deprecation of device features (''2025'')=== | ||
As per announcement on their website: | As per announcement on their website: | ||
https://www.eocharging.com/stories/important-service-update-eo-mini-pro-2 | https://www.eocharging.com/stories/important-service-update-eo-mini-pro-2 | ||
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This means that perfectly functioning devices will lose the following features: | This means that perfectly functioning devices will lose the following features: | ||
1. Set charging schedule to take advantage of lower priced electricity overnight | 1. Set charging schedule to take advantage of lower priced electricity overnight | ||
2. Use of app to start/stop charging on demand | 2. Use of app to start/stop charging on demand | ||
3. Being able to lock the unit in OFF mode, to prevent unauthorised use | 3. Being able to lock the unit in OFF mode, to prevent unauthorised use | ||
The Mini Pro 2 units | 4. (SmartHome units only?) Solar charging where the charge rate is matched to the PV output monitored by an additional CT clamp | ||
The Mini Pro 2 units don't have any physical controls either on the wall unit or control unit, so the app is currently the only way to interact with the charger. | |||
==Regaining access (WIP)== | |||
In the case of the "Smarthome" unit, an additional control box is installed alongside what appears to be a unit identical to the Mini Pro 2. | |||
This unit contains connectors for more CT clamps and allows additional controls such as limited PV export matching (although a frankly horrible implementation) | |||
The hardware inside appears to be a stock Raspberry Pi 3 with a 16GB SD card. | |||
The SD card has no partition level encryption and therefore the code can be extracted and interrogated. | |||
Initial investigation seems to indicate that much of the control is handled over a USB->serial adaptor (Genius) which is hard-wired in to the Smarthome HV board. This indicates it should be fairly trivial to send the required commands to alter charging levels, start/stop/lock the charger, at least for owners of the Smarthome unit. | |||
Custom firmware, that allows to set schedules and control the charger via LAN is now available for the eomini charger: https://github.com/minceheid/openeo | |||
==Products== | ==Products== | ||