Setting up your new Veton® charger.

Bringing a new Veton® charger online. Plug in the network cable, open the web interface, point it at your meter. Fifteen minutes, start to finish.

What does “setting up” actually mean?

Two stages. Installation is the physical work. Mounting the charger, running the cable, connecting it to the building’s electrical panel. A qualified electrician handles that, following the installation manual that ships with the charger (also at veton.be/downloads/). Setup is the few clicks afterwards to tell the charger about your building. That is what this page covers.

How do I open the charger’s web interface?

Veton® chargers connect over Ethernet, with optional 4G/2G. There is no Wi-Fi. Plug a network cable into the ETH0 port on the controller inside the components cabinet and run it back to your router or switch. Once the charger has power and a link, open a browser on the same network and go to http://ev3000.local:8080/. If the name does not resolve, your router does not support mDNS. Use the charger’s IP address instead, from your router’s connected-devices list or from the Veton® app. You land on the live dashboard. Charging mode, energy flow, 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 can change every setting on the charger. There is also a read-only “user” role and a higher “manufacturer” role for factory operations. Once setup is working, change the operator password from the Phoenix Contact dashboard, linked at the bottom of the Settings page. The default is fine for first run, not for daily use.

What do I do on the Settings page?

Open the Settings tab. Six sections, top to bottom. Load management, Electricity tariff, Solar & location, OCPP, RFID whitelist, Advanced. Touch only the ones that apply. A typical home install needs the first three. Many homes need only 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 is physically installed. Veton® supports the Xemex P1 module (bundled with the charger), the HomeWizard P1, and the Phoenix Contact EEM-series. Click Auto-detect for any of the three, or enter the IP address by hand. (2) Charger circuit fuse (under Advanced settings). 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 main breaker on your utility connection, for example 40 A. Capacity and Smart modes use this to keep the car from pushing the building past its main fuse, even when the oven, heat pump and dishwasher are all running. Leave Disable internal load management unchecked. Click Save.

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

Almost nothing. If you run an external EMS — the Veton® load management device on 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 decide. The meter, if present, keeps streaming data to the dashboard for monitoring. The external EMS makes the calls.

Should I set the electricity tariff?

If you use Smart mode, yes. It is how the charger picks the cheapest and sunniest hours. Three options. Dynamic (default) uses the live day-ahead market price for your country, pushed daily. No setup needed. Day & Night takes a day rate (€/kWh), a night rate, and the hours that count as day. Useful for older two-rate contracts. Fixed uses one €/kWh rate. Smart still shifts to sun and avoids peaks, but cannot save on tariff timing. Belgian customers on the capaciteitstarief should also set Capacity-tariff peak (kW), the monthly peak you are comfortable being billed on. Smart and Capacity modes keep the monthly grid-import peak under this number, so a car charge never sets a new peak you carry 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 apply the correct country’s market price. Solar arrays. For each array on the roof, enter the size in kWp, the orientation (N, NE, E…) and whether it is sloped or flat. Two arrays facing different directions is normal. Add a row per direction. Leave empty if there is no 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 the 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 need it only if you have signed up with a back-office, typically at a workplace, a public site, or as part of a fleet. For home use, ignore this section entirely. If you do have a back-office, paste their WebSocket URL into Backend URL (your provider supplies it), click Auto-configure to let the charger wire itself up, 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 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. Single-household homes can ignore this. Without an RFID requirement, anyone who plugs in can charge. To enable, click Enable RFID whitelist mode. Only cards on the list below can then start a session. To add a card, tap it on the reader and click Import when it appears under “Recently scanned”, or enter the UID by hand with an optional label and expiry date. To remove or temporarily disable a card, use the buttons next to it in the list. With OCPP active, OCPP takes over authorisation. The local whitelist is kept as a backup for when the cloud is unreachable.

What about network 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 the IP configuration, 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 support@veton.be with the 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 and the Veton® app, solar EV charging FAQ, load balancing FAQ, and the Veton® load management FAQ for multi-charger sites.

Last updated: 1 July 2026