EV Charging Station on Ubuntu / Debian

Introduction

The EV Charging Station IoT example application is also supported on Ubuntu & Debian for RZ MPU Linux system.

Prerequisites

The following guide assumes that instructions from Getting Started - Ubuntu and Debian for RZ MPU Linux were followed and user is able to run Ubuntu / Debian on RZ/G2L EVK.
Note: All instructions will be executed on the RZ/G2L EVK board via Terminal
AWS Credential were prepared by following: RZ/G2L - EV Charging Station

Step 0 - Install sudo command [Debian only]

# su -
# apt install sudo

Step 1 - Update your package list

# sudo apt update

Step 2 - Install necessary software -

Unzip Command:

# sudo apt install unzip

Python Package Installer for Python 3 (pip3)

# sudo apt install python3-pip

Step 3 - Download from GitHub page, the evse-v1.0.zip

# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/renesas-rz/rz-gateway-solution/main/Demo/RZG2L/Demo%20-%20EV%20Charging%20Station/Ubuntu_Debian/evse-g2l-ubuntu-debian-v1.0.zip

Step 4 - Extract the zip file and remove the zip file

# unzip evse-g2l-ubuntu-debian-v1.0.zip
# rm evse-g2l-ubuntu-debian-v1.0.zip

Step 5 - Change directory to scripts

# cd ~/evse/scripts/

Step 6 - Run evse.sh script by providing AWS credentials and AWS region as arguments.

# ./evse.sh <AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID> <AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY> <AWS_SESSION_TOKEN> <AWS_REGION>

The script will execute approximately 30 to 40 minutes to setup the infrastructure on RZ/G2L Device and AWS cloud.

When successful, below output is displayed on the console terminal:

The setup process & execution of the sample demo is the same as described in RZ/G2L - EV Charging Station