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The Plugchoice SDK is in beta. Until version 1.0, a minor version may change the SDK or the SDK API. Pin the SDK version in your app and the Plugchoice-Version header on your server.
With the Plugchoice SDK, your app gets a Connect charger button that does the hard part for you. Your user taps it, and Link guides them through the rest: finding the charger, connecting it to Wi-Fi and pointing it at Plugchoice. When they’re done, the charger is in your app, ready to use.

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What your users can do

Add a charger

Connect a new charger to Plugchoice and to your app.

Change its Wi-Fi

Move a charger to another Wi-Fi network, for example after a new router.

Set it up

Tell Plugchoice how the charger is wired, such as its maximum current.

Reconnect it

Bring a charger back online when it lost its connection to Plugchoice.

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What you build

Three small pieces, and Link does the rest:
1

An endpoint on your server

It asks Plugchoice for a client secret: a short-lived pass that says who your user is and which chargers they may touch.
2

A button in your app

It opens Link. The SDK gets the client secret from your endpoint when it needs one.
3

A check when Link closes

Your app hears how it went, and your server confirms it with Plugchoice.
How Link works explains each piece, and Get started builds them.
  • Many brands, one button. Volt Time, Zaptec, Alfen, Peblar, and any other OCPP charger. Plugchoice keeps Link up to date, so new brands and fixes reach your users without an update of your app.
  • What only a phone can do. Link joins a charger’s own Wi-Fi, finds it on the home network and talks to it over Bluetooth, behind the phone’s usual permission prompts.
  • Your look. Your name, logo and colour, in light and dark, in seven languages.

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Platforms

The SDK is open source: github.com/plugchoice/mobile-sdk.

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Get access

Email support@plugchoice.com for test credentials. Test mode works with real chargers; see Test and live.

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Next

How Link works

The few ideas behind the SDK, in plain words.

Get started

Add a charger from your app, end to end.

Installation

Add the SDK to your iOS, Android or React Native app.

Supported chargers

What Link can do for each brand.