Feature request: click on a specific connector to open directly the payment site

[user858753257]

or alternative the app like (Maingau) to proceed with in app payment

[johan12345]

This would definitely be useful, and probably possible at least for the charging stations where we can already detect the availability through NewMotion (because only in these cases we know the EVSEID). We need to investigate which charging apps can handle "deep links" to specific charging stations. Would you be interested in working on this?

[user858753257]

I can ask the developers of the charging apps if their apps support this 👍

[johan12345]

That would be nice! Another thing one could check is if there are existing Android apps offering these links to the payment apps, then it should be easy to find out how they do it.

[user858753257]

I think it's difficult ☹️ I got two answers back from Fastned and Plugsurfing

Plugsurfing :

• they can't give me an answer because of data privacy

Fastned :

• not supported yet

[johan12345]

AirElectric seems to support linking to Maingau, so we should check how they do it.

[user858753257]

I'm waiting for the answer from Maingau .

Fastned gets back to me and told me that linking between apps is not possible .

Also not for payment purpose :(

Do you know what happens if the app could scan the QR/NFC sticker on the station ?

[johan12345]

Do you know what happens if the app could scan the QR/NFC sticker on the station ?

The QR code/NFC sticker directly includes a link to the payment website. If you scan it with you smartphone (not with a payment app), it just opens that link in the browser. If you scan it with a payment app, that app probably tries to extract the EVSEID from the URL and then starts the payment for that EVSEID. But that doesn't help us, as we don't get these links from GoingElectric or NewMotion.

[user858753257]

I got an answer today from Allego .

they have no API provided for the public .

But they can provide some over a service called "evcloud" . But this is only availability for B2B customers 😬

[johan12345]

I checked again some of the common charging apps (Maingau, EnBW, Shell Recharge) if they have any Intent filters in their AndroidManifest.xml that look like they might be able to deep-link into the charging page. EnBW was the most promising with an intent filter like this:

<intent-filter>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
  <data android:scheme="http" android:host="m.intercharge.eu" android:pathPattern="/.*"/>
</intent-filter>

but I had no success in launching the app using an URL like http://m.intercharge.eu/evse/show?evseid=DEIONE211001 or http://m.intercharge.eu/qr?evseid=DEIONE211001 (it starts the app, but doesn't open the page of the specific charger) 😞