Skills charger

Name: charger
Author: openclaw

Check EV charger availability (favorites, nearby search) via Google Places.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/borahm/charger" ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-skills-charger && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/borahm/charger" ~/.openclaw/skills/openclaw-skills-charger && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/borahm/charger/SKILL.md

charger

Higher-level EV charger checker built on Google Places (New) EV charge data.

This skill includes a

bin/charger

CLI (Node.js) for checking charger availability.

Setup

Requirements:
- Node.js 18+ (Clawdbot already has Node)
- ```
GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY
```
  (recommended in
```
~/.clawdbot/.env
```
  )

Put the CLI on your PATH (example):

ln -sf "$(pwd)"/bin/charger /home/claw/clawd/bin/charger

Add a favorite:

charger favorites add home --place-id <placeId>

Commands

Check a favorite / place id / query:

```
charger check home
```

charger check "Wien Energie Charging Station Liniengasse 2 1060 Wien"

Find nearby:

charger nearby --lat 48.188472 --lng 16.348854 --radius 2000 --max 10

Notifications

The recommended pattern is:

```
charger
```
(this skill) produces a clear
```
Any free: YES|NO
```
result.
A scheduled job (Gateway cron) runs a small helper that only prints output when it should notify.

Helper script (what actually decides to notify)

This bundle includes

scripts/charger-notify.sh

What it does:

Runs
```
charger check <target>
```
If
```
Any free: YES
```
and the last run was not
```
YES
```
, it prints a single notification line.
Otherwise it prints nothing.

So: no output = no notification.

State:

Stores last state in

~/.cache/charger-notify/<target>.state

so it only notifies on the change

NO/UNKNOWN → YES

Usage:

```
bash scripts/charger-notify.sh home
```

Example notification output:

EV charger available: Tanke Wien Energie Charging Station — Amtshausgasse 9, 1050 Wien, Austria — 1/2 available (OOS 0) (updated 2026-01-21T21:05:00Z)

Typical cron schedule (how you actually get Telegram pings)

Cron is the scheduler. It runs the helper script on a timer and sends you whatever the script prints. Because the helper prints only when it becomes available, you only get messages when it matters.

Check every 10 minutes:

```
*/10 * * * *
```

If you want me to wire this into Clawdbot Gateway cron (so you get Telegram pings), tell me:

target (
```
home
```
)
interval (every 5/10/20 min)
quiet hours (optional)