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April 9, 2025
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Important news for Indra charger owners - it’s time to set up your new Indra app

  • April 9, 2025
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Important news for Indra charger owners - it’s time to set up your new Indra app

Updated on 29/04/25 by Bradley_OVO: We've new added troubleshooting steps below to help you if you're having trouble getting set up

If you own an Indra charger, you can now update your EV charger apps. This is because from 8 May 2025, the access to the current Indra web app will be gradually phased out.


The new Indra mobile app will work seamlessly with Charge Anytime, allowing you to keep all the great features. Like your discounted smart charging rate, and being able to lock your Indra Smart Pro charger.

 

Please follow the steps below so you can successfully migrate your Indra app.

 

Already set up on the new Indra mobile app?

 

If you've already set up an Indra account on the new Indra mobile app, follow Step 2 below to pair your charger with Charge Anytime.

 

Step-by-step guide

 

1. Set up your charger on the Indra mobile app (you’ll need to be near to your charger)

  • Download the Indra app on the App Store or Google Play, then create an account
  • Create a new account (you’ll need to do this even if you had an account on the legacy Indra web app powered by Kaluza)
  • Set up your vehicle
  • Add your charger - on the ‘Schedule’ screen, select ‘No schedule’
  • Choose OVO as your supplier
  • Update your charger if prompted, then click finish

2. Pair your charger with Charge Anytime 

  • Download the Charge Anytime app (if you don’t already have it) on the App Store or Google Play
  • Follow the instructions in the Charge Anytime app to log in with your OVO account, add your Indra charger, and link your Indra account

 

Once you've completed these steps, you can use the Charge Anytime app to schedule your charging sessions, and the new Indra app for all other charger management tasks.


It’s a good idea to download your charging history from the current Indra web app, if you need it. You might not be able to access this after 8 May.

 

Now that your charger operates with the Charge Anytime app, some of the features will be different. For example, the scheduling optimiser (which is still powered by Kaluza) needs to reset between charging sessions. Otherwise a new schedule won't be loaded and your vehicle won't charge.

 

Find all our troubleshooting tips below:

 

If experiencing an issue when charging multiple vehicles:

Once you’ve charged one vehicle, unplug it and wait for 15 minutes to allow the optimiser to reset. After that, you can plug in your other vehicle, set your “ready by” time, and the app will take care of the rest.

 

If experiencing an issue when charging a single vehicle:

If, after 20 minutes, your EV doesn’t charge when it’s plugged in, we’ll assume the EV is fully charged and remove schedules from the charger.

 

If the app initially shows schedules when the EV is plugged in but then stops displaying them after the EV stops charging, please:

  • Check for any settings in the EV that could restrict charging.
  • Unplug the EV for 15 minutes, then plug it in again to reset the charging schedules.

 

Still experiencing issues migrating to the new app or charging in the new app?  Try these troubleshooting steps:

  • Make sure that your charger is now linked and showing within the Indra mobile app - you can download the app from Google Play / App Store
  • Make sure your charger is online. If the LED status is solid white, the charger is online and connected to the charging platform (the Indra app will also confirm this). If it’s offline, the charger will be flashing purple (the Indra app should also confirm when the charger is offline). When the charger is offline, smart charging/charging via schedule won’t work. We recommend turning your charger off for 30 mins for a full reset. If this doesn't work, you'll need to contact Indra support.
  • Make sure there are no schedules set in your vehicle, your vehicle app or the Indra app.
  • Unplug for 15 minutes to let our smart charging optimiser reset.
  • Make sure your charger is unlocked - the settings section of the Indra app gives you the option to lock or unlock your charger.
  • Make sure the vehicle is in a state ready to accept charge before plugging in - you can ‘wake up’ an EV by unlocking, opening and closing a door, then locking again prior to plug in.
  • Plug in, set a new ready by time and let the Charge Anytime app do the rest.

 

Experiencing issues with Charge Anytime if you’ve got a Tesla:

 

If your vehicle isn’t charging to full

 

To support local electricity networks, we would previously adjust the amount of energy used when charging EVs at certain times of the day depending on demand. 

Instead, we now pause your charging at these times, before resuming it again later.

 

Some vehicle brands, like Tesla, interpret the pause as the charging session being finished and fall into sleep mode. Our attempts to restart charging are then rejected.

 

Putting your Tesla in Sentry Mode stops it from falling asleep and allows Charge Anytime to continue pausing and resuming charging as intended.

 

We’re here if you need us

 

If you’re having issues setting up the new Indra app, you can call Indra on 01684 770 631 or email support@indra.co.uk.


If you’re having issues connecting to the Charge Anytime app, you can email us on chargeanytime@ovo.com or call 0330 175 9678 and select option 2 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).

107 replies

stead
Rank 5
Rank 5
April 12, 2025

I'm really frustrated with it, first time in years waking up to not having a charged car, we have 2 cars and swapping between them seems to fail.

 

Been trying for 2 hours this morning to get the car charged from 80% to 100% as yesterday I didn't know I'd be driving as far, leaving at 12 thiught I'd have plenty of time to top it up. 

Newcomer
April 12, 2025

Having moved to the new Indra and ChargeAnytime apps my car failed to charge last night despite everything looking OK on the apps.

No support available from Ovo or Indra till Monday of course. No idea how to resolve this - very disappointing.

Newcomer
April 12, 2025

This has worked for me but I now have no ability to download charging history.  Will this be made available?

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 12, 2025

AFAIK you can’t revert back once you’ve migrated. It could just be some teething issues and that’s expected with new stuff like this.

That’s all I know.

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stead
Rank 5
Rank 5
April 12, 2025

AFAIK you can’t revert back once you’ve migrated. It could just be some teething issues and that’s expected with new stuff like this.

That’s all I know.

I even tried rebooting the charger with the network cable unplugged hoping it would fall back to dumb mode for an hour or so, just completely lost my patience, I've worked in it support, written albeit simpler business programs and I just can't fathom how it's so bad.

 

Did email support a few days back which did come off a bit ranty I guess but after being plugged in for 10 hours overnight and still sitting on planning charge for 6am at 7am I kind of lost it. At least we have a supercharger down the road for such occasions 

Rank 4
April 12, 2025

I think I’ve got this working - but I’m a bit confused by the Indra App settings.

It wants me to add my Electricity Supplier, so I choose OVO. Then in the next step it says ‘Select your tariff, but no tariffs are listed for me to choose from. If I lie and choose Octopus or Eon etc etc, there’s a long list of their tariffs, but for OVO - nothing. So I have to enter the tariff manually - I’m on 1-year Fixed Loyalty. I can then enter the tariff price and end date. Once done, it then lists the Supplier as ‘Custom’, rather than OVO.

But there’s no mention of Charge Anytime, nor any way to add that info.

Have I gone wrong somehow?

 

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 12, 2025

Nope, you’re on the right track.

You now need the Charge Anytime app, which will work in tandem with the Indra app:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaluza.flex.anytime

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/charge-anytime/id1660027420

That’ll guide you through.

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Rank 4
April 12, 2025

Ya, done that too. I seem to have got it linked to the Indra Charger too. It did  4.89kWh charging and then stopped, and it currently says “Charging next after 20:00” 

BUT the Indra app says that 4.89kWh has cost me £1.06 - because it doesn’t apparently know about Charge Anytime. That’s the bit I’m worrying about!

Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
April 12, 2025

That sounds correct to me - OVO’s system will apply appropriate bill credits later so you get the Charge Anytime rates.

If you set the tariff as Custom on the Indra App, you may want to change the settings there.

I will ask for expert thoughts on this one, bear with us.

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Rank 4
April 12, 2025

Thanks. My point is that it only seems to be OVO tariffs that the Indra App doesn't know about, which is odd.