Charge HQ

Charge HQ

About this app

Charge HQ is a smart EV charging app for your home. It supports either a Tesla vehicle or a smart charger (OCPP compliant). For details see https://chargehq.net/

Features include:

- solar tracking - divert your excess solar to your EV instead of the grid (requires supported inverter - see the web site)
- charge your home battery before your EV, or vice-versa
- scheduled charging
- detailed charging history, including a breakdown of how much energy came from solar vs the grid
- monitor and control charging from the app
- automatic start and stop charging based on wholesale electricity price (Amber Electric or AEMO spot price - Australia only)
- start and stop based on grid renewables level (Australia only)

Charge HQ does not require any additional hardware - it runs in the cloud. Please check the web site to determine if your equipment is supported.

Ratings and reviews

This app is simple, basic, and perfect- it lets you schedule when your car starts and stops charging. The Tesla app won't do this, and the only apps that do charge expensive monthly rates and give you lots of statistics, bells and whistles. If you need to simply charge your car at a scheduled time, this is it. I had a problem originally where some outside app was interfering with my scheduling and their tech support had me create a new API key, which solved the issue. Great app, great support!

One of my favorite tools for managing my Tesla charging. Even Tesla can't implement "Charge On Solar" the way Charge HQ can - this allows you to prioritize charging your powerwalls, allows you to select _multiple_ charging schedules for your car, days in advance, so you don't have to remember the night before a trip to go change something on the Tesla app. Having awareness and control of solar power, batteries, etc is wonderful.

I love this app. This is the only way I've found to charge my car solely on excess solar, effectively turning my car into additional storage for solar power. It's easy to configure and works great for me.

What's new

This version includes improvements to the Tesla connection workflow, plus some other minor fixes including the occasional blank screen bug.