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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-02ChargePoint Home Flex
Exactly which product this is[1][4]
- Model number
- CPH50
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- ChargePoint Home Flex · Home Flex · CPH50 · CPH50-HARDWIRE-L23 · CPH50-NEMA14-50-L23 · CPH50-NEMA6-50-L23
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | PartialPartial support — see the catch[2][5] | Real but narrower than the word 'Apple' suggests, and the distinction is the whole point of this cell. ChargePoint's own Home Flex settings page says 'iPhone users can add the Siri shortcut in the ChargePoint app to make charging a breeze everywhere they go.' That is a Siri Shortcut — a voice trigger you add inside ChargePoint's own app — and it is NOT Apple Home. This charger does not appear in the Home app, cannot be put in a Home scene or automation, and cannot be shared with your household through Home sharing. If you want to say something to your iPhone and have charging start, that works. If you want the charger to be part of your Apple smart home, it is not, and no route exists to make it one: ChargePoint holds no Matter certificate — a CSA-IoT keyword search returns 'No Entries Found', validated against a known positive on the same endpoint — and Apple Home controls no energy device class in the first place. Apple's EnergyKit, added in iOS 26, is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps rather than a way to control anything, and this catalogue never conflates the two. Recorded partial because a documented first-party Siri path genuinely exists; it is emphatically not a HomeKit integration. |
| Amazon Alexa | PartialPartial support — see the catch[2][3] | The most capable Alexa integration of any charger in this subcategory, and still recorded partial — for a reason worth understanding rather than a grudging one. ChargePoint documents a genuine command set: start charging, stop charging, whether your car is plugged in, charging status, how many miles were added, what you spent on charging, and your account balance. That is far beyond the on/off ceiling the neighbouring Emporia record documents. But look at the form every single one of those commands takes in ChargePoint's own setup guide: they all begin 'Alexa, ask ChargePoint…'. That is the question-and-answer skill pattern, not the direct-control pattern ('Alexa, turn on the charger') used by devices Alexa controls natively — and ChargePoint documents no device-style command anywhere. The practical consequence for a smart home is specific: you can hold a conversation with ChargePoint through your Echo, but the charger is not presenting itself to Alexa as a device, so this catalogue does not represent it as one. Setup is account-linking: you enable the ChargePoint skill in the Alexa app and 'enter your ChargePoint account details and log in'. It runs entirely through ChargePoint's cloud, so it stops when your internet does. Two of the documented commands — spend and account balance — are about ChargePoint's public network as much as your driveway, which is a reminder of what this product actually is. |
| Google Home | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[2][5] | A stated 'no', in ChargePoint's own words, and that makes this one of the strongest negative cells in this catalogue: 'We currently do not have a Google Home integration for ChargePoint Home. However, this is a frequently requested feature.' Vendors almost never write that sentence — the industry norm is to omit the platform entirely and let a buyer guess whether it was forgotten or excluded. ChargePoint answered the question, on the same page where it documents Alexa and Siri, which is why this cell can read 'none' rather than 'unknown'. Note the company's own hedge — 'currently', plus an acknowledgement of demand — so this is a position rather than a permanent refusal, and it is one of the things this record's recheck watches for. There is no Matter route that could supply Google support around the vendor: ChargePoint holds no CSA certificate, checked and control-tested. Worth adding that Google Home has no EV-charger device type at all, so even if ChargePoint built something tomorrow, the charger would arrive as a generic device rather than as a charger. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2][5] | Unknown. ChargePoint enumerates its integrations on the Home Flex settings page — Alexa, a Siri shortcut, and an explicit statement about Google Home — and SmartThings appears in none of it; no Samsung-side documentation naming this charger was located either. Recorded unknown rather than none, and the contrast with the Google cell on this same record is exactly why: for Google, ChargePoint wrote a sentence saying it does not have an integration, and that earns a 'none'. For SmartThings it wrote nothing at all, and an omission is silence rather than a denial. Same page, same vendor, two different kinds of evidence, kept distinct. This is also the cell where the missing Matter certificate costs the most, because SmartThings is the one major platform that lists EVSE among its supported Matter device types — the single place a certified charger could appear as a charger rather than as a switch. |
| Home Assistant | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2][7] | Unknown, and specific rather than lazy. Neither side documents this pairing: ChargePoint names Home Assistant nowhere across its marketing page, settings page or Alexa guide, and Home Assistant publishes no core integration — home-assistant.io/integrations/chargepoint/ returns 404, checked against known positives on the same host in the same session (the wallbox and tesla_fleet integration pages both answer normally by the same method). Custom integrations distributed outside Home Assistant's core are not visible to that check and are outside what this record can verify, so the cell records the absence of any committed support rather than asserting that nothing works. What can be said is that no documented local path exists on this product at all, so anything community-built would have to work against ChargePoint's cloud. The comparison worth drawing is with the Wallbox charger in this same subcategory, where an official core integration exists and delivers charge-current control and solar modes — that is what a supported Home Assistant path looks like, and this product does not have one. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Needs before it works: No hub. The charger joins your Wi-Fi and runs through ChargePoint's own service, and there is nothing to buy in between. The account is the real requirement rather than any hardware: ChargePoint describes its app as 'the only app that can control your home and public charging in one place', which tells you the design intent — this charger is a node on ChargePoint's network first and a device in your house second. That framing is also why its integrations behave the way they do. When you ask Alexa about it, you are asking ChargePoint's service about your account, not asking a device in your home about itself.[1]
What it can do[3]
You can tell it to
- Start/stop
- Energy monitoring
It reports
- Energy reading
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[1][3]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription, plan or fee for home charging appears on any ChargePoint surface read. Recorded as 'none' on that basis, with coreFunctionWithoutPlan deliberately 'unknown' rather than 'full' — this is an absence of any mention of paid tiers, not a vendor statement that everything is included. What IS established is that an account is mandatory: the app is the control surface by ChargePoint's own description, and the Alexa skill's setup requires you to 'enter your ChargePoint account details and log in'. One genuine complication a buyer should understand, because it is unusual in this catalogue: the same account also runs ChargePoint's PUBLIC charging network, where money definitely changes hands — Alexa can be asked 'How much I spent on charging last month' and 'To check my account balance'. So the account has a billing relationship attached to it even though nothing about the home charger itself is stated to cost anything. This record keeps those two things apart rather than letting public-network charges imply a home-charging fee.
Maintenance reality[1][4]
- Works without the internet: No — the core function depends on the vendor's servers, so an outage takes it with them.[1]
- ChargePoint publishes the electrical detail more clearly than most vendors in this subcategory, and the differences between variants matter. The hardwired model 'Works with circuits rated from 20 to 80A' and 'Delivers up to 50A of power'; the NEMA 6-50 and NEMA 14-50 plug models each 'Work with circuits rated 40 or 50A' and 'Deliver up to 40A of power'. So the plug versions — the cheaper, simpler installation — are capped a fifth below the hardwired one, and only the hardwired variant reaches the headline 50 amps. Connectors are J1772 and NACS. Warranty is '3-year warranty for peace of mind'. Certification claims are 'UL Listed for safety' and 'ENERGY STAR® certified for efficiency'. THE ENERGY STAR HALF IS VERIFIED AT THE REGULATOR RATHER THAN REPEATED FROM THE VENDOR: the EPA's own dataset lists partner 'ChargePoint, Inc.' with model CPH50, a Level 2 unit rated 50.00 A at 240 V for a maximum 12 kW with an 18 ft output cord, qualified 2023-10-04 — and the certificate's own variant list names CPH50-HARDWIRE-L23, CPH50-NEMA14-50-L23 and CPH50-NEMA6-50-L23, which is exactly the three-variant line ChargePoint sells. That variant match is what ties the certificate to this product rather than to a stablemate. The UL claim remains vendor-attributed: it was not checked against UL's own registry in this session. One specification the vendor page does not give is cable length; the federal record's 18 ft is the only figure located, and it is a certification measurement rather than a marketing spec. cloudDependent is true — control, history and the voice integration all run through ChargePoint's service, and no local API or local control path is documented. A note on how this record classifies power, since 'mixed' is used elsewhere in this catalogue for battery-plus-mains devices: it is used here because the product ships in three mains configurations — two NEMA plug variants and a hardwired one — and the choice changes the current you get.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether ChargePoint publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
Start with what you cannot find out before buying: the price. ChargePoint publishes full specifications for all three Home Flex variants and no figure against any of them, and both of its commerce hosts refuse this catalogue's requests, so there is no manufacturer price on this record. That is a channel decision, not an oversight on our side, and it means comparison-shopping this charger takes an extra step. Second, the variants are not equivalent and the naming does not tell you so. Hardwired works with 20–80A circuits and delivers up to 50A; both plug versions work with 40 or 50A circuits and deliver up to 40A. The easy installation costs you a fifth of the charging speed, and only the hardwired model reaches the number on the box. Third, the federal credit is gone — 30C applied to property placed in service through 2026-06-30 per the IRS's own page — so most published advice about what a charger really costs is now wrong. Fourth, and this is the part worth reading carefully, the smart-home story is three different answers on one page and they are easy to blur together. Alexa is genuinely well supported, with start, stop, plugged-in status, miles added, spend and account balance all documented — but every command ChargePoint publishes is of the form 'Alexa, ask ChargePoint…', the question-and-answer skill pattern, not the direct-device pattern, and no device-style command is documented anywhere. Apple gets a Siri shortcut added inside ChargePoint's app, which is voice control and is NOT HomeKit — this charger does not appear in the Home app at all. And Google gets an outright no, in ChargePoint's own words: 'We currently do not have a Google Home integration for ChargePoint Home.' Credit for writing that down; almost nobody does. Fifth, there is no Matter certificate, checked against the CSA database with a control, so there is no standards route around any of the above, and no core Home Assistant integration either. Sixth, the account has a billing relationship attached, because it is the same account that pays for ChargePoint's public network — nothing about home charging is stated to cost anything, but do not read 'no subscription' as 'no money involved'. Finally, two things verified rather than taken on trust: the ENERGY STAR claim is real, and it is tied to this product rather than a stablemate because the EPA certificate's own variant list names CPH50-HARDWIRE-L23, CPH50-NEMA14-50-L23 and CPH50-NEMA6-50-L23 — the exact three models sold. And a direct check of CPSC's recall database returned no recall records for this manufacturer, on an endpoint proven live in the same session.
Who it's for
The right charger for a household that already lives on ChargePoint's public network, because the same account and the same app cover both — that is ChargePoint's own pitch, 'the only app that can control your home and public charging in one place', and it is a real advantage if you charge away from home often. It suits an Alexa household better than any other charger in this subcategory: the documented command set covers starting, stopping, status, miles added and spend, where competitors manage on and off. It suits someone who wants iPhone voice control through a Siri shortcut and understands that is not the same as the Home app. And it suits a buyer who can hardwire, since that is the only way to get the full 50 amps. It is the wrong charger for a Google Home household — ChargePoint says so itself, which is more than most vendors will do, and there is no Matter certificate to work around it. It is the wrong charger for anyone who wants it in Apple Home, since a Siri shortcut is app-level voice and not a HomeKit device. Think twice if you run Home Assistant: no core integration exists and no local path is documented, and the Wallbox charger in this same subcategory has an official integration with real control. And think twice if you want to know the price before you commit to researching further, because ChargePoint does not publish one where a shopper can see it.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] ChargePoint, Home Flex product page — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Product identity, Protocols, Required hub or bridge, Maintenance, Power source, Installation, App platforms, Market availability, Service status, Subscription, Works without the internet
- [2] ChargePoint, Home Flex features and settings — vendor-support-doc research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility
- [3] ChargePoint, How To Connect ChargePoint Home and Alexa — vendor-support-doc research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Capabilities, Subscription
- [4] US EPA, ENERGY STAR Certified Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment — AC-Output (open dataset 5jwe-c8xm) — regulator-API research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Product identity, Maintenance, Market availability
- [5] CSA-IoT certified products database, keyword search — registry research (control-tested), verified 2026-08-02Backs: Protocols, Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [6] US Consumer Product Safety Commission, recall REST service — regulator-API research with control, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Service status
- [7] Home Assistant integrations documentation — counterparty-source research (control-tested), verified 2026-08-15Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
- [8] US Internal Revenue Service, Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit — regulator-source research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Price
- [9] unrecorded — the migrated lifecycle.research stamp carried no source field — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Research status
- [10] Matter Distributed Compliance Ledger, vendor registry (read 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs). ChargePoint does not appear under any name tried: 'chargepoint'. The DCL's vendor registry was enumerated to EXHAUSTION on 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs: substring queries were unioned until the distinct-VID count reached 833, which is the record count the tool itself reports scanning per query (the union of a/e/i/o/u/y reached 832; the last holdout was 'SLV GmbH', a vowel-free name, recovered by adding l/s/t). Every vendor in the ledger was therefore inspected, not searched for. — registry-lookup (DCL enumeration by vendor ID, with known-positive control), verified 2026-08-22Backs: Protocols
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