Added a note in the documentation regarding stand-alone mode

[no-gram]

Added a note in the documentation regarding stand-alone mode in the section about prevent charging auto start

[steinmn]

Could you add a bulletpoint about this in the Requirements-section as well? Judging by your description in #366, the integration was pretty much useless as long as the charger was in stand-alone mode, right?

[no-gram]

When stand-alone mode is activated the integration works as expected. The charging started immediately and the state was correctly updated in HA. I could turn off the charging through the integration and I was considering this as a workaround now that I could not prevent the auto start. Stand-alone is supported by the integration and as far as I see it, it works as expected. It should not be a requirement that stand-alone mode is turned off.

[steinmn]

Ok, in that case, I think it belongs as a sub-point under the If you want to use the controls at the Installation level:-point. If the available-current-setting is ignored, it doesn't just impact auto-start, so it should be mentioned among the requirements.

[no-gram]

Agree. See latest commit.

[steinmn]

Good catch on the dead link 👍

[sveinse]

Not sure what's going on with the unit test CI job. It fails with some strange error.

[steinmn]

@sveinse The pycares-package released its 5.0-version in january, which contained breaking changes. The old ha-version we currently have in requirements.txt relies on an older aiodns-version that relies on the older pycares-version without having the <5.0-guard in its setup.

TLDR: I've updated requirements.txt in #362 to use HA 2026.2.3, and the tests pass. I suggest merging that and then (rebasing and) merging this PR.

[sveinse]

@no-gram can you please merge in master to get #362 included? It seems I can't do this from the web and we should have the CI tasks rerun with the new config.