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tajniak81andClaude Opus 5 4ff6242c8f The last message in the map, and it reboots the charger
0108 was the one thing in the MQTT inventory nobody had wired: the device
power mode, whose single documented value restarts the charger. It is the
only way to reboot a charger that is on neither a CSMS nor the local
network — which is most of them — so the cloud transport sends it now,
and "reset" reaches it too, since that is what the OCPP path has always
called the same act.

Nothing waits for a confirmation: the device that would send it is the
device rebooting, so the command answers at once and says the charger
drops off the cloud for about a minute. The gate is unchanged and now
covers both spellings — an explicit confirm plus a password step-up,
audited either way. Modbus still refuses, because no register does this,
but its refusal now names both transports that can rather than only the
CSMS.

Both clients already had the reset button and its password prompt; they
were hidden in every mode that reads the device, which is why the cloud
never showed one. Modbus is now the only mode without it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 23:15:12 +02:00
tajniak81andClaude Opus 5 90558d60b2 What the app can set, the cloud connection can set
The broker transport could move a session along — start, stop, boost, skip the
delay, cap the current — and nothing else. Everything the charger is actually
configured with sat one field away in the same messages we were already
decoding: the schedule it charges on, the plug lock, auto-start, the LED, load
balancing, solar charging, and the Modbus server the local transport depends on.
Readable, and unreachable.

The obstacle was never the cloud, it was the shape of the protocol. A setting is
not a register write. It is a *command*, and a command owns a set of fields
inside a message type — mostly one, but five own several, and the charger reads
the whole command as the new truth. A light-off schedule sent carrying only its
switch is a schedule whose start and end have just been set to midnight. So a
grouped write resends the siblings the caller did not name, using the values the
charger itself last reported, and refuses when it has never reported them. That
last part is not caution for its own sake: load balancing and solar charging
carry the serial of the meter they watch, and nothing outside the charger knows
it. An empty one would be adopted.

Those values do not arrive with the telemetry, either. The fast 0410 stream a
realtime trigger turns on carries none of them — the settings come on 0405, 0840
and 0900, which the charger sends when it has something to acknowledge. So a
grouped write may have to send a trigger first purely to make the charger talk
about itself, and says so plainly when even that produces nothing.

Everything a caller supplies is encoded before the cloud is touched at all. A
request naming one bad value changes nothing rather than half of what it asked
for, and a mistyped setting costs a validation error instead of a sign-in, a
certificate fetch and a broker connection to be told no.

mqttsettings.go holds one table and it is the only place a setting is defined:
the wire field, the name a caller uses, the state key its current value comes
from, and how a value becomes bytes. The names are the snapshot's own, so a
caller can read a status, change one entry and send it back. The existing limit
command now builds its frame from that table too rather than encoding field a8 a
second time.

Reading grew to match. The frame decoder gains the fields the grouped writes must
carry back — the two load-balance settings, both monitor serials, the solar
monitoring mode — plus the swipe gestures, and the snapshot exposes the rest of
what is now writable. One name was wrong and is corrected: field d9 was called
chargingMode after the Modbus register at 20088, but the reference has it as the
solar charging mode, so it becomes solarChargeMode and moves in beside the solar
settings. A mislabelled reading is bad; a mislabelled writable field is worse.

Over HTTP it is one action rather than a dozen, because the charger groups the
fields anyway: POST .../settings with a settings object, and settings sharing a
command travel in one frame instead of overwriting each other. The other two
transports refuse it by name and say which one has it, the way they already
refuse each other's commands. The audit trail records the values, not just that
a write happened — a setting that changes what the charger will draw, or whether
it answers on the LAN at all, is worth being able to trace afterwards.

Two things worth saying plainly. This is built from the reference project's
message maps and checked against its own frame layout, not against hardware —
there is no charger on this end to point it at. And modbusEnabled is a loaded
gun: writing it off stops the charger serving the register map, and the way back
is this transport, or the app.

The ignore rule for the local Modbus map artifact widens to the protocol maps
that now sit beside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 18:28:45 +02:00
tajniak81andClaude Opus 5 f7472bada3 Reach the charger where it is, instead of waiting for it to call
OCPP asks the charger to dial us: a public endpoint, a TLS certificate, and a
route in through the customer's router. Our own handler then demanded two more
things the V1 does not offer — TLS on a charger that connects over ws://, and
Basic auth credentials the Anker app has no field for — so every connection was
turned away before the upgrade.

Anker publishes a Modbus TCP register map for this charger, and it inverts the
problem: we dial the charger, on its own network, with no inbound reachability
to arrange. That works for a charger behind a router that OCPP cannot reach at
all.

internal/modbus is the protocol, hand-rolled against the spec like the MQTT and
WebSocket clients beside it. The plugin's modbus.go is the V1's map: the same
0-8 status enum the cloud already reports, per-phase measurements, and the
writable registers behind start, stop, current limit, boost and phase mode. A
new "modbus" control mode routes the existing control endpoints down it, so the
REST surface, the rate limit, the confirmation step and the audit trail are the
ones already there.

The commands the register map has no equivalent for say so by name rather than
failing as unknown, and a current below the charger's 6 A floor is refused
because it pauses the charge rather than slowing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 17:03:27 +02:00