{"id":74819,"date":"2026-09-27T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=74819"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:13:55","slug":"ocular-ev-charging-app-rfids-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/ocular-ev-charging-app-rfids-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/ev_charging.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/ev_charging.gif\" title=\"Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocular EV Charging App RFIDs Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recently got helped hugely acclimatizing to a new EV (electric vehicle) via a &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar Panel and Battery install to house &#8230; solar battery specialists &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>EV Charging via Private Pole to house and grid &#8230; electrician &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>EV Car &#8230; car sales specialist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; flurry of advice recently, leaving us with mobile apps for &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the house solar panels and battery<\/li>\n<li>the car<\/li>\n<li>the EV charger &#8230; it being today&#8217;s focus, and called the <a target=\"_blank\" title='Ocular app' href='https:\/\/ocularcharging.com.au\/charging-management-software\/?utm_term=&#038;utm_campaign=Remarketing_v2&#038;utm_source=adwords&#038;utm_medium=ppc&#038;hsa_acc=5711313700&#038;hsa_cam=22038721081&#038;hsa_grp=&#038;hsa_ad=&#038;hsa_src=x&#038;hsa_tgt=&#038;hsa_kw=&#038;hsa_mt=&#038;hsa_net=adwords&#038;hsa_ver=3&#038;gad_source=1&#038;gad_campaignid=22038733390&#038;gbraid=0AAAAABScZQqTwujvHH_-hq0oDOrHf9CoX&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjwt9jVBhDXARIsAFSP-6cgsNIRp4GUvB-B8eq23U_iRUT1LjvLA9f1MsrX0SoPE_ffb-ZY5a8aAmJFEALw_wcB' rel=\"noopener\">Ocular App<\/a>, helping with AC (the top &#8220;trickle feed&#8221; slower (top car plug, and as you buy the EV Charger you get supplied the <a href='#butler'><strike>un<\/strike><\/a>suitable lead) charging approach, as distinct from <a target=\"_blank\" title='Evie charging app' href='https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.goevie.goevie_app&#038;hl=en_AU' rel=\"noopener\">Evie App<\/a> charging <font size=1>(oh, that makes four)<\/font> at public charging stations where, hopefully available, is faster DC charging (the bottom car plug) many Australians will be getting a handle on this coming school holidays) &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/three_apps.PNG'><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Since then, the car people upgraded our car software in an indescribable set of steps &#8230; was this firmware?!  Anyway, an ongoing matter of interest (it took us a month to address <font size=1>but read on<\/font>) was the electrician leaving us with two <a target=\"_blank\" title='RFID information from Wikipedia, thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio-frequency_identification' rel=\"noopener\">RFID<\/a>s &#8230; these quite small rigid but smaller and fatter credit card &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/look_of_card.jpeg'><\/img><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; feeling <strike>do-dahs<\/strike> EV charging Plug and Charge precursor arrangements &#8230; in what you might categorize as a <font color=blue>&#8220;security th<strike>a<\/strike>ing&#8221;<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably getting the gist here &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStick to the day job &#8230; software!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But luckily, yours truly gets inspiration in these &#8220;onboard hardware matters&#8221; from the gumption and fearlessness of my partner!   Yayyy!  So we found ourselves &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>at the iPhone open with the Ocular App with the RFIDs and the EV Charger while it was not charging, but near The Car when &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strike id=butler>the butler did it<\/strike> &#8230; no &#8230; at the Ocular App &#8220;My&#8221; tab &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/my_look.PNG'><\/img><br \/>\n &#8230; tapped &#8220;My Card&#8221; option &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>tapped &#8220;Bind New Card&#8221; option<\/li>\n<li>filled in a new Card Name<\/li>\n<li>checked the Serial Number of the EV Charger serial number that appeared<\/li>\n<li>tapped &#8220;Bind&#8221; option &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/end_look_of_card.PNG'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>waved RFID card in front of front scanner <font size=1>(see image two down)<\/font> &#8230; and the EV Charger beeped &#8230; and the app displayed &#8220;Success&#8221; &#8230; who&#8217;d have thought?!<\/li>\n<li><font color=blue>and this is where security might happen if &#8230;<\/font> back at &#8220;Group&#8221; tab &#8220;EV Charger of interest&#8221; tap screen unchecked Plug and Charge<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/plug_and_play_off.PNG'><\/img><br \/>\n &#8230; <font color=blue>&#8230; meaning to charge you need to wave RFID card in front of front sensor &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/front_sensor.jpeg'><\/img><br \/>\n &#8230; of EV charger<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; and so it made sense to associate car fob with the RFID card as per &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Mac\/iPhone\/fob_and_rfid.jpeg'><\/img><\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d30150' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d30150\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/photobooth\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d30150' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently got helped hugely acclimatizing to a new EV (electric vehicle) via a &#8230; 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