Fix chargers that cannot be stopped from Home Assistant - #2075
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change updates remote transaction ID generation and post-connect cancellation handling. It adds transaction-end meter processing, transaction-state tracking, shared flow measurand resets, diagnostic logging, Ocular LTE Plus v3 documentation, and integration coverage for post-stop readings. ChangesTransaction and connector status lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves session stopping and sensor reset behavior, but a late closing meter reading from an earlier session could still be attributed to a newer session and corrupt energy data. This should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py`:
- Around line 1284-1289: Capture the response returned by self.call in the
TriggerMessage status refresh flow, then inspect resp.status and log any
response that is not accepted. Preserve the existing requested_message and
connector_id values and exception behavior.
- Around line 977-986: The self-healing branch around transaction_id,
recorded_tx, and active_tx must reject a transaction ID that was recently
stopped, including MeterValues without a context; retain the existing tx_ended
protection and add tracking/checking for stopped IDs as needed. Add a regression
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with the same transaction ID, asserting it is not re-adopted.
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Some chargers read past their own tag buffer when it is filled exactly to the 20 character IdToken limit, and echo a 22 character tag back in StopTransaction. That fails payload validation, so the charge point never receives a valid confirmation, keeps the transaction open and carries on charging. A remote stop then cannot work at all. Confirmed on an Ocular LTE Plus v3 (BS-EV22, firmware 448.3251.0Q03197): a 20 character tag came back with two extra bytes appended, a 16 character tag came back unchanged and the stop completed. The same signature was reported on a BS-EV07 in issue lbbrhzn#2030. Sixteen random characters from a 36 character alphabet is ample for a tag that only has to be unique to one session.
A charger sends the closing meter values for a transaction after its StopTransaction, and those values still carry the transaction id. The recovery path that adopts an unknown transaction id, which exists so a session already running at startup is picked up, could not tell that reading apart from a live one and so restored the session that had just ended. Recognise those values by the id of the transaction that last stopped on the connector. A charger should label them with a Transaction.End context and that is checked too, but OCPP leaves the field optional, so the id is what the decision rests on. They still count as part of their transaction for energy accounting. That matters on chargers reporting a meterStart of zero, where the energy register carries session energy rather than a lifetime total: filing the closing reading as though no session were running would both lose the final session energy and stamp a session figure into the lifetime register, which Home Assistant reads as a meter reset. Adds a regression test covering both the labelled and unlabelled cases.
Stopping a transaction zeroes the readings that only apply while charging, but the charger's closing meter values arrive a moment later and write the final current and power straight back over them. Those sensors then sit at whatever the car was drawing when it stopped until the next session starts. Zero them again once the closing values have been processed, and collapse the three copies of that loop into one helper.
Diagnosing a misbehaving charger was harder than it needed to be. Status notifications, which are the single most useful thing to see, were recorded without a word, while a routine connection ping logged every twenty seconds. Remote starts and trigger messages logged a bare status with no mention of which charger or connector was involved. Post connect setup could also end without explanation. It logs a message when it aborts on an error, but a dropped connection cancels the task instead, and CancelledError is not an Exception, so it passed that handler and setup stopped in silence. On a charger that keeps dropping, setup never completed and nothing said why.
Records the setup that works and the firmware quirks found while getting one running, including the pause trick that avoids having to unplug the cable between sessions.
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975-1020: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject terminal readings that belong to a different active transaction.
If transaction A stops, transaction B starts on the same connector, and a late
Transaction.Endreading for A arrives,tx_endedbecomes true from its context. Lines 1015-1020 then settransaction_matchesto true despite B being active.process_measurandscan assign A's closing energy to B's session. A contextless late reading has the inverse problem because line 1165 removes A from_ended_tx, so it can be filed as lifetime energy.
custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py#L975-L1020: Only associate terminal readings when no different transaction is active. Ignore or separately route readings whosetransaction_iddiffers from the active transaction.custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py#L1165-L1165: Retain the prior ended transaction ID until a laterStopTransactionsupersedes it.tests/test_charge_point_v16.py#L2728-L2747: Start transaction B after stopping A, then send terminal and contextless late readings for A. Assert that B session energy and lifetime energy do not change.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/supported-devices.md`:
- Line 154: Convert the Ocular LTE Plus v3 heading to the configured setext
Markdown syntax while preserving its text and link.
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In `@custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py`:
- Around line 975-1020: Update transaction matching in
custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py:975-1020 so terminal readings are associated
only when no different transaction is active, preventing late readings for A
from affecting active transaction B. At custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py:1165,
retain the previous ended transaction ID until a later StopTransaction
supersedes it, preserving correct handling of contextless late readings. Extend
tests/test_charge_point_v16.py:2728-2747 to cover terminal and contextless late
readings for A after B starts, asserting neither B session energy nor lifetime
energy changes.
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Some chargers cannot be stopped from Home Assistant. You press stop, the charger says yes, and the car keeps charging. After a session has run, the current and power sensors also stay stuck at whatever the car was drawing when it finished.
I have an Ocular LTE Plus v3 that showed both, and I captured full protocol logs to find out why. Three problems are fixable here. The rest are faults in that charger's firmware, which I am raising separately with the manufacturer.
What was going wrong
The integration gives each charger a random ID tag that is 20 characters long, which is the longest the OCPP rules allow. Some chargers cannot handle a tag that exactly fills the space and hand it back two characters longer than they received it. That reply is then rejected as invalid, the charger never gets a proper confirmation, and it keeps the session open and carries on charging. Using a slightly shorter tag avoids the problem entirely. This also affects the person in #2030, whose charger sends back exactly the same corruption.
A charger sends its final meter reading just after a session ends. Two things went wrong with that last reading. It was being used to bring the finished session back to life, and it was writing the last current and power values back over the zeros that had just been set, which is why those sensors froze after every charge.
Changes
Each change is a separate commit, and there is a new regression test for the closing meter reading.
Two notes for reviewers
The closing reading still counts as part of its transaction for energy purposes. That matters on chargers that report a meterStart of zero, where the energy register carries session energy rather than a lifetime total. Treating the closing reading as though no session were running would lose the final session energy and stamp a session figure into the lifetime register, which Home Assistant reads as a meter reset. The regression test covers this.
The closing reading is identified by the id of the transaction that last stopped on that connector, not only by its Transaction.End label, because OCPP makes that label optional and some chargers leave it out.
Tested against an Ocular LTE Plus v3 (reports as BS-EV22, firmware 448.3251.0Q03197) on OCPP 1.6. Before the change a remote stop never completed. After it, stops complete first time and the sensors return to zero when charging finishes.
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