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Refs #2143

This is containment, not the fix for how #2143 starts.

What it fixes

_charger_reports_session_energy is set from MeterValues (meter_start == 0, or an EAIR sample below meter_start, added in #2115) and only ever cleared in ChargePoint.__init__. A plain reconnect reuses the ChargePoint, so once one transaction trips the flag, every later transaction publishes the raw EAIR register as session energy until a restart, a reload or a rebuild of the charge point. On a lifetime-register charger that is the lifetime total. That matches the CSV in the issue after the first jump: sessions start at ≈ the register (09-06 09:14 0.0 → 347.53, 09-07 00:27 0.0 → 356.04 … 368.01, 09-13 02:42 0.0 → 434.6). After the unavailable at 09-07 07:06 they reset again (0.0 → 0.03).

The timing fits #2115 as the trigger. It was merged on 2026-09-03 and released the same day in v0.11.3; v0.10.18 and v0.11.2 don't contain it. The first jump in the CSV is on 09-06. On 09-16 in this issue, peterquekel wrote "I have loaded a version lower and it works again". vtainc added "I have downgraded to v0.10.18 and counters started to reset", and peterquekel replied "Exactly".

With this change the mode is re-detected per transaction: on_start_transaction clears the flag. The meter_start == 0 detection runs on every sampled value, and the below-meter_start one on the EAIR sample chosen from each bucket, both ahead of skip_eair. So a charger that really reports session energy is re-detected on its first EAIR sample, as before, as long as that sample is below meter_start or meter_start is 0 (see the caveat below).

More than one connector

The flag is per charger, not per connector. With the reset on every StartTransaction, a start on another connector clears it too. A session still running there is re-detected on its next sample if that sample is below its meter_start or meter_start is 0. If it stops first, the stop rule below means it never publishes a negative.

Measured in the harness, this corrects the overlapping cases on a lifetime-register charger. Example: an anomalous sample on connector 1 while connector 2 is mid-session on a lifetime register. On main, connector 2 keeps showing the raw register (357.0) to the end. Here, once connector 1 starts its next transaction, connector 2 reads 1.0 and stops at 1.1.

Caveat — it can be worse than main. On a charger that reports session energy in MeterValues against a lifetime meterStart, a sample at or above meter_start taken after a StartTransaction has cleared the mode is derived as EAIR - meter_start instead of read as session energy. That needs a session reading larger than the lifetime register at the start, i.e. a charger whose lifetime total is still smaller than one session. StartTransaction 5000 on connector 1, a sample of 4900, StartTransaction 20000 on connector 2, then 5100 on connector 1 and 21000 on connector 2 give 5.1 and 21.0 on main, which is right for that charger, and 0.1 and 1.0 here; the same values also land in Energy.Active.Import.Register, which main leaves unwritten. It happens on one connector too: after a session from 5000 that samples 4900 and stops at 9950, a StartTransaction at 9950 whose first sample is 10000 gives 10.0 on main and 0.05 here. The samples alone can't tell this charger apart from a lifetime-register one with an anomalous reading, where the same bytes are right here and wrong on main; a per-connector flag would not resolve the single-connector case either. I got this wrong in the first version of this description, which said the change was never worse than main.

A per-connector flag would be the better design. It touches 7 call sites, and tests set the attribute directly, so I've left it for you to decide.

Stops below meter_start

A session read without the flag has its stop derived as meter_stop - meter_start, which is negative whenever meter_stop is below meter_start. On main that happens in every session until the flag trips for the first time, and on a charger that never trips it, in all of them. After that, the stuck flag skips the derivation. So clearing the flag per transaction exposes those later sessions again, and the stop rule has to change with it.

Measured on a lifetime-register charger, stops only:

Stops main here
356000 → 357000, then 357000 → 356999 [1.0, -0.001] [1.0, 0.0]
three sessions, the last 357000 → 0 [1.0, 1.0, -357.0] [1.0, 1.0, 0.0]

A stop below the start value can't be told apart from a session-relative meter, a meter replacement, a reset or a rollover. So the session value already derived is kept instead of publishing a negative or the raw register. There is no guess about which kind of meter it is. A stop at or above meter_start is derived as before. A session with no samples and a session-relative stop gives 0.0, the same as main once the flag is set.

Tests

  • test_session_energy_mode_does_not_outlive_its_transaction: lifetime-register charger. One below-baseline sample in tx1, then a normal tx2 (meter_start 356040, EAIR 357040). main: 357.04; here: 1.0.
  • test_session_energy_mode_cleared_while_another_connector_runs: the two-connector case above. main: connector 2 reads 357.0; here: 1.0, then 1.1 at its stop.
  • test_session_energy_mode_not_held_by_the_main_meter: the first test with a MeterValues for connector 0 during tx1. main: 357.04; here: 1.0. Its StopTransaction for tx1 is held as ambiguous, not applied; that is covered under "not covered" below.
  • test_stop_below_meter_start_does_not_publish_a_negative, two cases, both kept at 0.0:
    • no samples, stop at 153 against a meter_start of 4076447. main: -4076.294.
    • a sample at meter_start (356000), then a stop 1 Wh below it. main: -0.001.
  • test_stop_transaction_paths_v16_b set the flag before StartTransaction, so it relied on the flag surviving the start. It now sets it right after, where the first MeterValues would. It still covers the same early return: removing or self._charger_reports_session_energy from _apply_stop_energy makes it fail on both main and this branch.

Reverting the reset fails the first three tests; reverting the stop rule fails the two stop cases.

Full suite (CI command): 545 passed on main; with the new tests on main, the 5 new test cases fail (357.04, 357.0, 357.04, -4076.294, -0.001) and the rest pass; 550 passed here. Coverage 97%. pre-commit run --all-files passes. Hassfest/HACS not run locally.

What this does not cover

  • The session that crosses the restart. The jumps in the CSV (09-06 8.62 → unavailable → 343.2, 09-12 9.95 → unavailable → 431.79) happen mid-session, right after an unavailable. That session still reads wrong with this change. The likely trigger is the below-meter_start detection from Switch to session-energy mode instead of publishing negative session energy #2115, fed by the meter_start restored after the restart. I couldn't pin the condition without a log.
  • MeterValues for connector 0 on a single-connector charger. They put connector 1's transaction id on connector 0 as well. Connector 1's StopTransaction is then held as ambiguous instead of being applied. This is pre-existing and identical on main; not touched here.
  • A drop in the reading within the session that stays above meter_start. For example 0.5 → 0.2 kWh of session energy: neither main nor this change handles it.
  • OCPP 2.0.1. It goes through the same shared detection and never clears the flag either. Not touched here.
  • Real hardware. No real charger was used, not the FoxESS from the issue, neither single- nor multi-connector. Everything above is from the websocket test harness.

@vtainc @peterquekel, could one of you capture a debug log (custom_components.ocpp: debug) of a Home Assistant restart or charger reconnect in the middle of a charging session? That would show which sample lands below the restored meter_start. @kwilson9, since this touches the detection from #2115, your view on whether a restart mid-session can trip it would help.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved charging-session energy reporting when meter readings produce an invalid negative total, preserving the previously calculated session value instead.
    • Energy reporting now re-evaluates how a charger reports session usage for each new transaction, preventing detection from a previous session from affecting the next one.
    • Readings for the overall charger no longer interfere with session-specific energy reporting, including when another connector has an active session.

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OCPP v1.6 now resets session-energy mode when an accepted transaction starts. Stop processing leaves the existing session-energy metric unchanged if the computed value is negative. New tests cover mode detection across transactions and stop values below the meter start.

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Reset session-energy mode per transaction
custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py, tests/test_charge_point_v16.py
Accepted transactions reset the session-energy mode. Tests cover detection across transactions, connectors, and main-meter readings.
Preserve session energy for negative stop calculations
custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py, tests/test_charge_point_v16.py
Stop processing does not update the session metric when the computed value is negative. Tests cover stop values below the meter start.

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# The energy reporting mode is detected from MeterValues, so a
# detection made in an earlier transaction must not decide how
# this one is read. The flag is charger-wide: a session running on
# another connector is re-detected on its next sample, and its stop
# never goes negative (see _apply_stop_energy).
self._charger_reports_session_energy = False

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Preserve the energy mode for active connectors.

When a second connector starts, on_start_transaction clears the charger-wide mode even if another connector’s session is still active. For that session, if meter_start is positive and a session-relative EAIR sample has reached or exceeded it, neither detector restores the mode: the zero check does not match, and the later check requires EAIR < meter_start. The sample then bypasses skip_eair, is written to the lifetime EAIR metric, and is also used to derive session_energy as EAIR - meter_start. Do not clear the shared mode while another connector’s transaction remains active; otherwise, track the mode per connector.

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In `@custom_components/ocpp/ocppv16.py` around lines 1843 - 1848, Update
on_start_transaction to preserve the detected energy mode while another
connector has an active transaction; only reset the charger-wide flag when no
other transaction is active, or track the mode per connector so starting a
session cannot make an existing connector’s samples use the wrong EAIR
interpretation.

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_charger_reports_session_energy is set from MeterValues (meter_start == 0,
or an EAIR sample below meter_start) but only ever cleared in __init__. Once
one transaction trips it, every later transaction on the charger publishes
the raw EAIR register as session energy, which on a lifetime-register
charger is the lifetime total. A plain reconnect reuses the ChargePoint,
so only a restart, a reload or a rebuild of the charge point clears it.

Clear it in StartTransaction, so each transaction is read by what its own
samples show. The meter_start == 0 detection runs on every sampled value,
and the below-meter_start one on the EAIR sample chosen from each bucket,
both ahead of skip_eair, so a charger that really reports session energy
is re-detected on its first EAIR sample, as before, as long as that
sample is below meter_start or meter_start is 0. A session reading above
a lifetime meter_start is then derived instead: that can be worse than
main on a charger whose lifetime total is still smaller than one session.

The flag is charger-wide, so a start on another connector clears it too.
A session still running there is re-detected on its next sample under
the same condition; if it stops first, its stop is handled as below.

A session read without the flag has its stop derived as
meter_stop - meter_start, which is negative whenever meter_stop is below
meter_start. On main that happens in every session until the flag trips
for the first time (on a charger that never trips it, in all of them);
after that the stuck flag skips the derivation. Clearing the flag per
transaction exposes those later sessions again, so the stop rule has to
change with it. A stop below the start value can't be told apart from a
session-relative meter, a meter replacement, a reset or a rollover, so the
session value already derived is kept instead of publishing a negative or
the raw register.

test_stop_transaction_paths_v16_b set the flag before StartTransaction and
so relied on it surviving the start. It now sets it after the start, where
the first MeterValues would. It still exercises the stop path that keeps
the reported session energy.

Refs lbbrhzn#2143

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4391-4449: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert a nonzero sampled session value

Both current cases assert Energy.Session == 0.0 before the stop. A regression that assigns 0.0 for a negative stop would pass both cases. Use a sample above meter_start and assert that the negative stop preserves the derived value.

Suggested fix
-        # A sample at meter_start, then a stop 1 Wh below it.
+        # A sample 1 Wh above meter_start, then a stop 1 Wh below it.
         (
             {"port": 9403, "cp_id": "CP_stop_below_start_b", "cms": "cms_services"},
             "CP_stop_below_start_b",
             9403,
-            356000,
+            356001,
             355999,
         ),
...
-            assert before == pytest.approx(0.0, abs=1e-9)
+            expected_before = 0.0 if sample_wh is None else 0.001
+            assert before == pytest.approx(expected_before, abs=1e-9)
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In `@tests/test_charge_point_v16.py` around lines 4391 - 4449, Update
test_stop_below_meter_start_does_not_publish_a_negative so the sampled case uses
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Energy.Session value before StopTransaction; keep the no-sample case expecting
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In `@tests/test_charge_point_v16.py`:
- Around line 4391-4449: Update
test_stop_below_meter_start_does_not_publish_a_negative so the sampled case uses
a MeterValues reading above meter_start and asserts the resulting nonzero
Energy.Session value before StopTransaction; keep the no-sample case expecting
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@proscar87, yes, a mid-session restart breaks it on my charger. It fails in the opposite direction from the FoxESS case, though: the restart doesn't trip the detection, it loses it, and the stop then publishes the lifetime register.

Grizzl-E, single connector, OCPP 1.6J. It reports EAIR session-relative in MeterValues and lifetime in Start/StopTransaction (the #2093 case). Two sessions crossed a Home Assistant restart, and both did this:

Session 1 (2026-09-17, v0.11.4) Session 2 (2026-09-20, restart = upgrade to v0.12.0)
Last sample before restart Energy.Session 5.13, Register 4276.1 Energy.Session 2.882, Register 4324.477
First sample after restart Energy.Session 0.0, Register 5.432 Energy.Session 0.0, Register 4.486
Rest of the session climbs normally from 0.0 to 32.876 climbs normally from 0.0 to 17.979
StopTransaction (Remote) Energy.Session 4309.006 Energy.Session 4342.504

So after the restart, the first session-relative sample goes in as the register, and the session re-baselines on it. Every later sample is above that new baseline, so neither detection path fires for the rest of the transaction, and the stop publishes the raw lifetime meterStop. Sessions that didn't cross a restart ended correctly.

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