CSMS to run docile charge point against

[mctsnt]

I have tried testing this simulator with SteVe (https://github.com/RWTH-i5-IDSG/steve) as recommended, using OCPP 1.6J.

I have managed to get successful heartbeat and authorization

but SteVe cannot detect the version of OCPP I am using so
I am unable to do any other operation such as get diagnostics.

When I then try to start the operation via the charge point simulator
I get an error message saying the expected message was not received.

Is this the expected sequence of events, should I expect to see OCPP
version in the picture before being able to proceed or do I need to do some other configuration in order for all the other test examples to work?

[reinierl]

Hi @mctsnt ,

I cannot reproduce your issue. For me the latest versions of SteVE and docile-charge-point work just fine together. The version number in the SteVE UI gets filled in once you send a BootNotification request from docile-charge-point. And even before the BootNotification has been sent, I can send any OCPP 1.6 request to docile-charge-point. I tried a TriggerMessage.

It seems that you are making docile-charge-point wait for a GetDiagnostics request from SteVE, and it never gets it. You should be able to send it though Operations -> OCPP v1.6 -> Get Diagnostics as shown here:

[mctsnt]

Hi @reinierl thanks for the help,

While I was able to get Steve to recognize the OCPP version with bootNotification like you said (thank you for that!) I still cannot get Diagnostics.

If I try to start the operation from Steve like you said the charge point never responds.
And even if I try a TriggerMessage for heartbeat for example I continue to get no response. So it seems that no matter what operation i start from the CSMS the charging point never responds.

Is there some step I am missing that I should be doing apart from bootNotification for this to work and the charge point to respond?