More Hearts than Stars: Smart Charging & Community Funding
summary
evcc is an open source EV charging controller running on small home computers (Raspberry Pi, Docker), written in Go and Vue.js, with a new Android/iOS app and support for hundreds of chargers, meters, PV and battery systems. The project has ~300 code contributors, 3.6k stars and 6.3k GitHub sponsors, uses GitHub Sponsors to fund development, gates full EV charger integrations behind a sponsor token (or a one‑time $2/month equivalent), and routinely handles translations into 29 languages and dozens of device implementations.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to EVCC project
- 1:07Project overview and goals
- 8:32Community contributions and impact
- 12:27Funding model and sustainability
- 21:15Global community and future plans
- 24:28Q&A and closing remarks
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