Setting up your new Veton charger

Welcome — these are the steps to bring a new Veton charger online and connect it to your home or business setup. Most owners can complete the whole thing in 15 minutes.

What does “setting up” actually mean?

There are two stages. Installation is the physical work — mounting the charger, running the cable and connecting it to the building’s electrical panel. That’s done by a qualified electrician following the installation manual that ships with the charger (also available at veton.be/downloads/). Setup is the few clicks you do afterwards to tell the charger about your home — that’s what this page covers.

How do I open the charger’s web interface?

Once the charger is powered and connected to your network (Wi-Fi or Ethernet), open a browser on any device on the same network and go to http://ev3000.local:8080/. If that name doesn’t resolve, your router may not support mDNS — use the charger’s IP address instead (look it up in your router’s connected-devices list, or use the Veton app to find it). You’ll land on the live dashboard, showing the current charging mode, energy flow and any active session.

How do I log in to change settings?

The dashboard is read-only until you sign in. Click LOG IN at the top right, and use the default credentials operator / operator. The operator role lets you change every setting on the charger. (There’s also a read-only “user” role and a higher “manufacturer” role for factory operations.) Change the operator password from the Phoenix Contact dashboard, linked at the bottom of the settings page, once you have things working — the default is fine for first-time setup but should not be left in place.

What do I do on the Settings page?

Click the Settings tab in the top nav. The page has six sections, top to bottom: Load management, Electricity tariff, Solar & location, OCPP, RFID whitelist, and Advanced. You only need to touch the ones that apply to your setup — for a typical home install the first three are enough, and many homes only need the first.

How do I configure the charger’s built-in smart charging?

Three things, all in the Load management section at the top of Settings. (1) Site meter: pick what’s physically installed — Veton supports the HomeWizard P1, the Phoenix Contact EEM-series, and the Xemex P1 module. For all three the charger will auto-detect the device on your network (click Auto-detect), or you can enter the IP address by hand. (2) Charger circuit fuse (under “Advanced settings”): the size of the breaker on the cable feeding this charger — typically 32 A in homes. The charger will never pull above this value. (3) Building grid connection fuse (per phase): the size of the main breaker on your utility connection, e.g. 40 A. Capacity and Smart modes use this to make sure the car never pushes your home past its main fuse, even when the oven, heat pump and dishwasher are all running. Make sure Disable internal load management stays unchecked, then click Save.

I already have a separate energy management system — what do I configure?

Almost nothing. If you run an external EMS (for example a Vetonlm controller for a multi-charger site, or any third-party Modbus or OCPP system that already optimises charging), open Advanced settings in the load-management section, tick Disable internal load management, and click Save. The charger stops driving its own current limits and lets the external system run the show. The meter (if any) keeps streaming data to the dashboard for monitoring; the external EMS makes the decisions.

Should I set the electricity tariff?

If you’re using Smart mode, yes — it’s how the charger picks the cheapest and sunniest hours to charge. Three options: Dynamic (default) uses the live day-ahead market price for your country, pushed daily — no setup needed. Day & Night lets you enter a day rate (€/kWh), a night rate, and the hours that count as day; useful for older two-rate contracts. Fixed uses a single €/kWh rate; Smart still shifts to sun and avoids peaks, but can’t save on tariff timing. Belgian customers on the capaciteitstarief should also set Capacity-tariff peak (kW) — the kW peak you’re comfortable being billed on each month. Smart and Capacity modes will keep your monthly grid-import peak under this number, so a car charge never sets a new peak that you’ll be billed on for the rest of the year.

How do I set the location, solar arrays and home battery?

In the Solar & location section. Location — search your address or click on the map; the charger uses this to pull the local solar forecast and to know which country’s market price applies. Solar arrays — for each array on your roof, enter the size in kWp, the orientation (N, NE, E…) and whether it’s sloped or flat. Two arrays facing different directions is normal — add a row per direction. Leave empty if you don’t have solar; everything else still works. Home battery — if you have one, enter the capacity in kWh and tick Protect home battery. With this on, solar charging only uses power the grid is actually exporting, so the car never empties your house battery in the evening. Click Save solar settings.

What is OCPP and do I need it?

OCPP (Open Charge Point Protocol) is the language commercial charging back-offices use to authorise sessions and bill drivers. You only need it if you’ve signed up with a back-office — typically because your charger is at a workplace, a public site, or part of a fleet. For home use you can ignore this section entirely. If you do have a back-office, paste their WebSocket URL into Backend URL (your provider gives this to you), click Auto-configure to let the charger wire itself up, and then Save URL. Some providers are pre-listed in the dropdown — pick yours to save typing.

What is the RFID whitelist?

If the charger is shared between multiple drivers and you want each session authorised by an RFID card (typical for offices, fleets and multi-tenant buildings), this is where you manage which cards are allowed. Home users with a single household can ignore this — if there’s no RFID requirement, anyone who plugs in can charge. To enable: click Enable RFID whitelist mode. Now only cards on the list below can start a session. To add cards, either tap the card on the reader and click Import when it appears under “Recently scanned”, or enter the UID by hand with an optional label like “Alice’s Tesla” and an expiry date. To remove or temporarily disable a card, use the buttons next to it in the list. If you also have OCPP active, OCPP takes over authorisation — the local whitelist is kept as a backup for when the cloud is unreachable.

What about network, Wi-Fi or security settings?

Those live in the Phoenix Contact dashboard — the underlying hardware control panel. Scroll to the Advanced section at the bottom of Settings and click Open Phoenix Contact dashboard; it opens in a new tab using the same login. From there you can change Wi-Fi, the operator password, firewall rules and so on.

I’m stuck — where do I get help?

Check the installation manual first; most setup questions are answered there with diagrams. For anything else, email [email protected] with your charger’s serial number (visible in the OCPP section of Settings) and a short description — most issues are resolved within one business day.

See also charging modes & the Veton app, solar EV charging FAQ, load balancing FAQ and the Vetonlm load-management FAQ for multi-charger sites.

Last updated: 29 May 2026