Smart home with car charging – this is how home comfort for the future becomes complete
Jul 22, 2025
A smart home equipped with a car charger will be complete, but let's first take a look at what makes a home smart. Imagine coming home after a long day, the gate automatically opens, the lights shine with the most suitable brightness and shade for you, the heating warms exactly how you like it, the shutters automatically shade when necessary. In the garage, the wall charger is already waiting for you, which you can program as needed, and with a single touch, you can start or stop charging the car. Every little detail can be tailored to you and your lifestyle. A few decades ago, this could have been a fantastic movie scene, but today, this is no longer sci-fi; this is a smart home in reality nowadays.
What smart devices can you encounter today?
Smart lamps that you can control the brightness of from your phone or with voice commands. Wall thermostats that learn your routine, so they don't heat unnecessarily. Blinds that let in light according to the sun's journey. A security system that protects the home with a remotely operable doorbell and camera. These solutions are no longer unattainable: an average family can easily install them, even retroactively.
The smart home can also be expanded with an electric vehicle charger
The electric vehicle charger can be part of the intelligent ecosystem. Voltie offers a complete device and a flexible application to make home charging fully controllable.
You can schedule it as it suits you. In the app, you can set when the charging starts or, for example, limit it to 80% to conserve the battery. If there are solar panels working on the roof, switching to green mode allows the system to wait until sufficient self-generated power is available.
You can monitor energy consumption in real-time. The app shows how many kilowatt-hours have gone into the car, how much of that was from solar energy, and how much CO2 you have saved. The statistics can be exported to Excel, allowing you to easily maintain a consumption log.
The performance can be dynamically controlled. Are you vacuuming, is the oven running, and is the washing machine spinning? In such cases, Voltie reduces the charging power to avoid overloading the network. As soon as the high-consumption devices stop, charging resumes at a faster rate. The charger can be easily integrated into smart home systems, thanks to pre-prepared interfaces such as OCPP 1.6J, MODBUS API, and HTTP API. It is compatible with systems like Loxone or Home Assistant, for instance.
Why is this good in the long run?
A smart home car charger seamlessly integrates into your daily tasks. You don’t have to worry about how long your car will charge: the app monitors it for you. If you set when you plan to leave the next day, it adjusts the charging accordingly and notifies you in time if anything deviates from the plan.
The Voltie app's interface in Hungarian is easy to understand, updates always happen automatically, and the developers continuously incorporate user suggestions.
This is no longer a futuristic luxury; it is rather a conscious step towards a comfortable, energy-efficient lifestyle. If equipped with a smart home car charger, you can set aside many little things that you otherwise have to remember. Just one Voltie device and a few minutes of setup, and charging your car will become a convenient process.
Check out our website, ask for help, and inform yourself about how you can integrate it into your existing smart solutions!
