amina is a Norwegian EV charger company, founded in 2021 and listed in Sandnes, Norway. Its amina S is a compact home charger in 20 A and 32 A versions. Instead of Wi-Fi it connects over Zigbee and Bluetooth, and it is meant to be controlled by a smart home hub or by the car's and electricity supplier's own apps.
The amina S talks Zigbee and Bluetooth LE. That means no cloud account is needed and control stays local, but it also means a Zigbee coordinator is required: a Homey Bridge on Homey, or a Zigbee dongle running Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA on Home Assistant. A retail product sheet also lists local OCPP 1.6j as coming in 2024, which we could not confirm as available.
That suits people who already run Homey or Home Assistant and want price-based or solar charging in their own automations. It is weaker if you want a polished vendor app, voice assistants or Matter, none of which we could confirm, or if you do not have a Zigbee hub.
Connection
Zigbee and Bluetooth LE, no Wi-Fi listed
Voice assistants
Not found
Matter
Not found
Open platforms
Homey app, Zigbee2MQTT and a community ZHA quirk
What can be connected
Charger amina S in 20 A and 32 A versions, with a fixed cable
Load balancing A separate amina Powerlink load balancer for dynamic power control
Smart home and energy Zigbee hubs, Homey flows, Tibber Pulse and price-based charging apps
Homey app listed with Amina Charging AS as developer. It starts and stops charging, sets the charging current and shows live energy use, history and alarms, and offers Homey Flows for load balancing, price-optimised charging and solar. Needs Homey v12.9.0 or newer and a Homey Bridge for Zigbee, and recommends amina S firmware 1.8.7 or later. A forum post suggests the app was written by Drenso, so who maintains it is unclear. We could not find a standalone amina app on the App Store or Google Play, although a retail product sheet describes a smartphone app for monitoring sessions and costs.
The amina S connects over Zigbee, which the product sheet lists together with Bluetooth LE in the 2.4 GHz band. Homey's listing says a Homey Bridge is required for the Zigbee device. A Home Assistant forum thread describes control as local-only, with no cloud or vendor app needed.
Listed as Bluetooth LE on the product sheet and as local Bluetooth connectivity on a retailer page. No Bluetooth-based integration with a smart home platform turned up in the forum thread we read.
Not mentioned on the product sheet, Homey's listing or the forum threads we read. We did not find an amina announcement, so this is unconfirmed rather than ruled out.
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OCPP
Unconfirmed
A retail product sheet lists local OCPP 1.6j as coming in 2024. We could not confirm from any page that it is available, and we did not find OCPP documentation from amina.
Homey's Works with Homey page names Piggy Bank for charging at the lowest cost and Tibber Pulse for switching between high and low current based on power readings. A Homey user story describes Tibber prices driving a Homey flow that turns the charger on when power is cheap. Neither is a native Tibber integration with amina.
Business Norway reports that charge times are set through the electricity provider's or car maker's app, not an amina app. The product sheet says the car can be connected to an electricity supplier for smart charging.
No built-in Home Assistant integration was found. A Zigbee2MQTT converter for the amina S was added in Zigbee2MQTT 1.41.0 according to a forum participant, and that route brings the charger into Home Assistant over MQTT with a Zigbee dongle. ZHA only exposes basic on and off and metering without a quirk, and a community ZHA quirk adds charge current control. Forum posts report quirks such as energy totals resetting after power cycles.
Homey's store lists the app with Amina Charging AS as developer, and Homey carries a Works with Homey page for amina. The app runs on Homey Cloud, Pro, Pro mini and Self-Hosted Server per the listing, but the listing says a Homey Bridge is required for the Zigbee charger. A Homey forum post suggests Drenso built the app, so who maintains it is unclear.
The amina S is a supported device in Zigbee2MQTT, a community project, with the vendor listed as Amina Distribution AS and OTA firmware updates noted. A forum thread says an update image was still being rolled out in mid-2025, and nobody had confirmed a successful over-the-air update through Home Assistant.
A Hue Bridge is a separate Zigbee network and the pages we read describe no Hue and amina link.
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amina Powerlink load balancing
Not mentioned
The product sheet says a load balancer can be connected for dynamic power control, and a retailer page names it as amina Powerlink for advanced load balancing. A search result also points to a Perific (formerly Enegic) page on load management for amina, which we could not open.
Forum posts refer to vendor documentation of a manufacturer-specific Zigbee cluster and to firmware notes kept on a ClickUp page. We could not open amina's own documentation, so the scope of any official developer access is unconfirmed.
Checked 11 November 2026 against the brand's own pages, app store listings and each project's own page. “Not found” means we searched and found nothing, not that it is impossible. Compatibility changes often. Spot an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
Common questions about amina
Does amina support Matter?
Unconfirmed. Not mentioned on the product sheet, Homey's listing or the forum threads we read. We did not find an amina announcement, so this is unconfirmed rather than ruled out.
Does amina work with Alexa?
Unconfirmed. No amina integration found, and the same device database lists Alexa as unknown.
Does amina work with Google Home?
Unconfirmed. No amina integration found. A device database built on Zigbee2MQTT data marks Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Alexa as unknown for the amina S.
Does amina work with Apple Home (HomeKit)?
Unconfirmed. No amina integration found, and the same device database lists HomeKit as unknown.
Does amina work with Home Assistant?
Yes, through a community-built integration. No built-in Home Assistant integration was found. A Zigbee2MQTT converter for the amina S was added in Zigbee2MQTT 1.41.0 according to a forum participant, and that route brings the charger into Home Assistant over MQTT with a Zigbee dongle. ZHA only exposes basic on and off and metering without a quirk, and a community ZHA quirk adds charge current control. Forum posts report quirks such as energy totals resetting after power cycles.
Does amina work with SmartThings?
Unconfirmed. Not mentioned on any page we opened and not searched separately.
Does amina work with Homey?
Yes, officially. Homey's store lists the app with Amina Charging AS as developer, and Homey carries a Works with Homey page for amina. The app runs on Homey Cloud, Pro, Pro mini and Self-Hosted Server per the listing, but the listing says a Homey Bridge is required for the Zigbee charger. A Homey forum post suggests Drenso built the app, so who maintains it is unclear.
Does amina work with Hubitat?
Unconfirmed. Not mentioned on any page we opened and not searched separately.
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