Does anybody know of an API of sorts to get the current status of an public ev charger?
like in some Charging Apps it’s shown:
I’d like to integrate these data points:
(1) the current state (free, occupied, defect/offline)
(2) the time since it is occupied
Someone found an API for this? There should be a european-wide database, but I don’t seem to find an API for that…?
What about this one
https://ladestationen.api.bund.dev/
Or
Or
Thanks!
The TomTom one seems to have status at least. The other ones are just a directory.
For everyone else, the TomTom-API is what I was looking for. And currently in the free plan you’ll get 2500 non-tile request per day, which is more than sufficient to observe a chargepoint. 
You could
/search/2/evsearch vor v2 of the endpoint), which will have the station and its status in the response also:object►results►0►chargingStations►0►chargingPoints►0►statusor use the TomTom ID (object►results►0►id) for a specific search (/search/2/evbyid also v2), which will have the same payload.
(see above EV Search API)
or use the TomTom ID (object►results►0►id) for a availability search (/search/2/chargingAvailability.{ext} for v2 of the endpoint):
Then it would be object►connectors►0►availability►current►available/occupied/...
I use the 3. option, for it spits out already the number of available/occupied/offline loadpoints. That’s already a good start for a rule.
Might become a candidat for a new Binding
You don’t want me to write a binding!
But I’m thinking about writing a Tutorial for how to us http-binding and rules for that.
No, I might find some time to start it. We’ll see
Tutorial would be fine, especially a guidance, what you would expect from such a binding…
done