How we chose these smart EV chargers
Every home charger sold in Great Britain since June 2022 has to meet the same baseline under the Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021, so "smart" alone doesn't separate these five. What does is how cleanly each one reaches Home Assistant: whether the integration is built into HA core, a maintained HACS add-on, or effectively broken. We also weighed the one feature each brand leads on — solar diversion, tariff automation, cable design or price — over a spec sheet of numbers that barely differ between them. Two candidates already have a matching product page in our own Home Assistant device finder, which is a reasonable proxy for how much real-world integration interest exists.
Prices are UK figures seen in September 2026, mixing unit-only and fully-installed totals depending on what each manufacturer publishes — installers, cable length and your existing consumer unit all move the final bill, so treat every figure as a band rather than a quote.
The best smart EV chargers for UK homes in 2026
1. Wallbox Pulsar Plus — best overall
Who it's for: anyone who wants EV charging inside Home Assistant without installing a third-party add-on first. Home Assistant has shipped an official Wallbox integration in core since the 2021.6 release, pulling from the MyWallbox Portal cloud account. It exposes charging power and energy-price sensors, a pause/resume switch, a max-current control and a solar-charging mode selector (Eco, Full Solar or disabled) — though changing the lock setting or resuming a paused schedule needs an account with admin rights on the Wallbox side.
The Pulsar Plus itself is a compact 7.4kW single-phase unit (Wallbox also sells 22kW three-phase versions in some markets) with installed UK prices commonly seen from around £450 to £900 depending on cable length and installer. The catch: Home Assistant's own docs describe the integration against "Wallbox" chargers generally rather than naming the Pulsar Plus specifically, and some UK retailers have started listing a newer "Pulsar Max" alongside it — check which exact model a quote is for before you order.
View the Pulsar Plus at Wallbox
2. myenergi Zappi — best for solar and eco diversion
Who it's for: anyone with solar panels who wants the car to soak up surplus generation instead of exporting it for a few pence a unit. The Zappi's Eco and Eco+ modes blend grid and solar power so the car only pulls what the panels aren't using elsewhere in the house, and it runs at 7.4kW on a single-phase supply or up to 22kW on three-phase. Fully installed prices typically land around £1,000 to £1,200.
There is no official Home Assistant integration, but CJNE/ha-myenergi is an actively maintained HACS integration covering the Zappi alongside myenergi's Eddi and Harvi devices. It exposes a charge-mode selector (Stopped/Fast/Eco/Eco+), session and energy sensors compatible with the Home Assistant Energy dashboard, and plug/charger status. The catch: like every community integration here, it depends on myenergi's cloud API rather than talking to the charger locally, so an outage on their end takes the Home Assistant entities with it. Our Home Assistant energy monitoring guide covers wiring Zappi-style session data into the Energy dashboard.
3. Ohme Home Pro — best for automatic cheap-tariff charging
Who it's for: drivers on an EV-specific electricity tariff who want the charger to find the cheapest hours itself rather than relying on a fixed schedule. The Home Pro reads Octopus Intelligent Go's off-peak windows and Octopus Agile's half-hourly day-ahead prices directly through Octopus's API, booking the cheapest overnight slots without the driver setting anything beyond a target charge and departure time. Our Octopus smart tariff guide covers which tariff actually suits a home charger.
Ohme lists the Home Pro from £999 including standard installation, with the bare unit closer to £539 and typical all-in totals around £939 to £1,039. It used to qualify for a discounted OZEV price for eligible households, but that grant route no longer applies to most homeowners (see below). The catch: the dan-r/HomeAssistant-Ohme HACS integration is cloud-only — it polls Ohme's servers roughly every 30 seconds for session data and every 30 minutes for settings, with no local fallback, and control is limited to basic start/stop and target-charge changes rather than full schedule editing.
4. Andersen A2 — best for design and a hidden cable
Who it's for: anyone charging on a visible wall who doesn't want a charger-shaped box on it. The A2's defining feature is a concealed cable-storage compartment inside the unit body, plus 13 colour and finish options, up to 22kW three-phase output and an 8.5m cable on the longer option. It's priced from £1,199 for a self-installed unit, rising to around £1,594 if Andersen manages the whole installation — £400 to £500 more than the plainer chargers in this list, which is the price of the design.
Home Assistant support comes from HA-AndersenEV/hassio-andersen-ev, an actively maintained HACS add-on for chargers on an Andersen Konnect+ account. It polls the cloud roughly every 60 seconds and exposes schedule switches, an enable/disable lock entity, an RCM fault-reset service and grid-power sensors for homes without a compatible smart meter. The catch: several independent reviews single out the Konnect+ app as the weakest part of owning one, and like the others here there's no local control if Andersen's cloud is down.
5. EO Mini Pro 3 — best compact and budget option
Who it's for: a small drive or a tight wall space where a bulky charger doesn't fit, and buyers happy to treat Home Assistant support as a bonus rather than a given. At 230 x 151 x 125mm the Mini Pro 3 is the smallest charger in this list, runs at 7.2kW single-phase (up to 22kW three-phase), ships with CT clamps for solar and load monitoring as standard, and is the cheapest unit here at around £550 for the hardware and roughly £966 fully installed.
The catch, and it's a real one: the community integration that used to bring the Mini Pro 3 into Home Assistant, twhittock/eo_mini, is now archived after EO changed the backend it relied on, and it only ever worked with the older "EO Smart Home" app rather than the current "EO Charging" app most new units ship with. A community successor is in early development, but if seeing the charger in Home Assistant matters to you today, don't buy this one expecting it to work out of the box.
View the Mini Pro 3 at EO Charging
Do smart EV chargers work with Home Assistant?
Yes, but only one of these five reaches Home Assistant through an official integration: the Wallbox Pulsar Plus, supported in core since 2021. The Zappi, Ohme Home Pro and Andersen A2 all rely on actively maintained HACS community integrations that poll each brand's own cloud service rather than talking to the charger locally, so a control-entity delay of 30 seconds to a minute is normal and an outage on the manufacturer's servers will take the Home Assistant entities down with it. The EO Mini Pro 3 is the outlier — its only integration is currently archived, so treat any Home Assistant support for it as unconfirmed rather than working.
Can I still get a grant for a home EV charger?
Only if you rent your home or own a flat. The EV Chargepoint Grant has excluded homeowners of houses since April 2022; it now covers renters and flat owner-occupiers with private off-street parking, plus a separate Residential Landlord Chargepoint Grant for landlords installing for a tenant. The per-socket grant amount rose from £350 to £500 from 1 April 2026, and the scheme is due to close to new applications on 31 March 2027. If you own a standard house, the full installed price in the table above is what you'll actually pay.
How long does it take to charge an electric car at home?
On a 7kW charger, a roughly 60kWh battery takes about 8 to 9 hours from empty to full, and a larger 70kWh battery scales up to somewhere around 9.5 to 10.5 hours on the same charger. In practice this rarely matters: most drivers top up daily rather than charging from empty, and every EV tapers its charging rate above about 80% regardless of how powerful the charger is, because that limit sits in the car's battery management system, not the wallbox.
Who should skip a smart home EV charger?
If you already have off-peak overnight electricity and a car that lets you set a delayed-start charge time from its own app, a cheaper non-networked 7kW charger meeting the 2021 regulations does the same job for less money and with no cloud account to depend on. The smart features in this list — solar diversion, live tariff pricing, Home Assistant automations — only pay for themselves if you'll actually use them; otherwise you're paying for connectivity you won't touch. Pairing any of these with a proper energy monitor is still worth doing regardless of which charger you buy: see our smart home energy-saving guide for the basics.
