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just had this email. It is 3 years since my freebie car charger was installed in the garage. I have never had an Ev. —————————- As a loyal customer to Chargemaster (now trading as BP Chargemaster), we hugely appreciate your commitment to shaping the future of the Electric Vehicle industry by purchasing an EV and a BP Chargemaster Homecharge Unit. When you originally purchased our Homecharge Unit it came with a 3 year communications package providing access to BP Chargemaster’s ChargeVision platform. This package period has now come to end. However, as a thank you for your custom we are offering you an option to extend this package and access to the ChargeVision platform for a cost of only £50 for the next 3 years (usual price £95). To take full advantage of this offer, please email comms.pack@bpchargemaster.com stating your name, and your contact telephone number, and if you have a preferred time/date to take a call. One of our team will then ring you to confirm the renewal of your access to ChargeVision and to take payment. If this offer is not taken up over the next 30 days, we will send you a confirmation saying that the comms element within your Homecharge unit will be deactivated and your login in details to the ChargeVision platform will be no longer apply. We also would like to take this opportunity to share with you about our Polar Plus membership, which for £7.85 a month you can access the UK’s largest electric charging network away from your home. For those first-time users, the first three months’ membership is FREE! Please visit https://polar-network.com/ for more information. ————————- Hmmm. A solution to the Big Brother problem that goes with these? Are there any gotchas hereeg could it disable the whole thing? Ferdinand

As way of an experiment I've resurrected the old Raspberry Pi to see what sort of monitoring I can put in place with low cost components such as DHT11 and DS18B20 sensors. An hour or two of dodgy scripting on my part (god my python and bash is rusty..) and I've got a nice neat cron script that is logging data every 2 minutes pretty reliably. As I'm inherently lazy when it comes to backups and other stuff, I decided to use one of the online services for IoT to log to. Logic is that if I log at short enough intervals then any lost data points would be averaged out. I can also download the data if needed so it's not like I can't review the data offline Has anyone else done anything similar ..??