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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-02Wallbox Pulsar Plus
Exactly which product this is[1][3]
- Model number
- PUP2-U-1-6-C-002
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- Wallbox Pulsar Plus · Pulsar Plus · PULSAR PLUS NA · PUP2-U-1-6-C-002
“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 | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1][4] | Unknown, and the reason is silence rather than refusal. Wallbox's US product page names Apple nowhere — no HomeKit, no Siri, no Apple Home — and unlike some vendors in this catalogue it does not say the platform is unsupported either. An omission is not a denial, so this cell records what is actually known: nobody has published anything. No Matter route exists to supply one, and that was checked rather than assumed — a CSA-IoT keyword search for 'Wallbox' returns 'No Entries Found', validated against a known positive on the same endpoint in the same session. Context that makes the silence less surprising: Apple Home controls no energy device class at all. Apple's EnergyKit, introduced in iOS 26, is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps, not a way to control a charger, and this catalogue never conflates the two. So even a vendor keen to support Apple has nothing to support. |
| Amazon Alexa | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Unknown. Wallbox's US product page does not mention Alexa anywhere, and no Wallbox-side documentation naming Amazon was located on the surfaces read. Recorded as unknown rather than none because the vendor has not said the platform is unsupported — it has said nothing, and this catalogue keeps those two states distinct. The contrast with the Emporia charger in this same subcategory is the useful part: Emporia documents Alexa and states its limit in writing, so its cell reads partial; Wallbox publishes neither a claim nor a denial, so its cell reads unknown. Same platform, same subcategory, two different kinds of evidence. Worth knowing what the ceiling would be even if a skill exists: Alexa has no EV-charger device type, so the most a charger can reach it as is a generic on/off switch. |
| Google Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Unknown, on identical grounds to the Alexa cell — Wallbox's page names Google Home and Google Assistant nowhere, and no vendor-side documentation was found either way. Not a denial, not a claim, so not recorded as one. Google Home has no EV-charger device type at all, so even a working integration could only present this charger as something it is not. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1][4] | Unknown. Wallbox names SmartThings nowhere and no Samsung-side documentation naming this charger was located. This is the cell where the missing Matter certificate costs the most, and it is worth spelling out why: SmartThings is the one major platform that lists EVSE among the Matter device types it supports, so a certified charger could appear there as an actual charger — with charge rate and scheduling — rather than as a switch. Wallbox holds no certificate (CSA-IoT keyword search returns 'No Entries Found', control-tested), so the one genuinely open door in this category is not usable here. |
| Home Assistant | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[2] | THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE THIS CHARGER BECOMES A REAL SMART DEVICE, AND WALLBOX DOES NOT MENTION IT ANYWHERE. Home Assistant ships an official core wallbox integration, introduced in 2021.6, and the capability list is far beyond anything the consumer platforms offer for any charger in this subcategory: sensors for added energy, added green energy, added grid energy, added range, charging power, charging speed, charging time, cost, current mode, depot and energy price, max available power, state of charge and status; number controls for max charging current, max ICP current and energy price; a select for solar charging mode (Eco mode, Full solar, or Disable solar charging); a switch to pause and resume charging; a lock for the charger; and a button to resume the schedule. Compare that with the neighbouring Emporia record, where the vendor's own documentation says voice assistants get 'only basic on/off commands' — here a third party the vendor never names gives you charge-current control and solar modes. Recorded full on the strength of that enumerated capability list. THREE LIMITS, ALL DOCUMENTED BY HOME ASSISTANT AND ALL WORTH KNOWING BEFORE YOU BUY. It is cloud polling, not local: 'Data is refreshed once every 90 seconds for owners of 1 charger, this rate is multiplied by the amount of chargers for owners of multiple Wallboxes' — Home Assistant adds that the rate 'has been chosen in conjunction with Wallbox to prevent overloading their infrastructure', which incidentally is evidence the two organisations have talked, even though Wallbox's marketing never says so. It needs admin rights: the lock and the resume-schedule button require them, and the number controls appear only for users permitted to modify charging settings. And there is a login trap that will catch people: 'This integration only supports a regular / email login, Apple or Google accounts are not supported' — so if you created your Wallbox account by signing in with Apple or Google, this integration will not work until you have an email-and-password login. One honest caveat on the level: Home Assistant's documentation is written at brand level and names no specific model, so coverage of this exact trim is documented by neither side. |
? 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.
Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH[1][4][8][10]
Needs before it works: No hub for the charger itself — it joins your Wi-Fi and talks to Wallbox's cloud, with Bluetooth available as a second radio. But there is a second box in this story that most buyers will not see coming, and it is not a hub in the usual sense: the Power Meter, sold separately at $299.00, is what unlocks solar charging and dynamic load management. If the reason you are buying a smart charger is to soak up your own solar production, or to keep the charger from tripping a panel that is already near capacity, then the $649.99 charger alone does not do it and the accessory is not optional. Wallbox is clear about this on its own page; it simply is not part of the headline price.[1]
What it can do[2]
You can tell it to
- On/off
- 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][2]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription, plan, membership or fee of any kind appears on the Wallbox page read. Recorded as 'none' on that basis — but coreFunctionWithoutPlan is deliberately 'unknown' rather than 'full', and that distinction carries the whole honest weight of this cell. This is an absence of any mention of paid tiers, not a vendor statement that everything is included. Wallbox's US product page describes app-based scheduling and monitoring and makes no statement at all about accounts, subscriptions, free tiers or paid tiers — it neither promises that the app is free nor mentions a charge. Compare the Emporia charger in this same subcategory, whose vendor writes 'completely free with no subscription, no in-app purchases, and no paywalled features': that is a positive none and it earns a 'full'. This one is silence, and in this subcategory the software is exactly where a vendor could later introduce a fee. What IS established, from Home Assistant's documentation of the official integration rather than from Wallbox, is that an account exists and has permission levels: the integration 'needs admin credentials to function properly', and certain controls appear only for users with rights to modify charging settings. So there is an account with a role model behind it; whether any tier of it costs money is not published on the surfaces read. Note also that the Power Meter accessory at $299.00 is a hardware cost rather than a subscription, and is recorded on the price line rather than here.
Maintenance reality[1][3]
- Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- Wallbox publishes the core numbers: 'Up to 11.5kW', 40A and 48A trims, connectors 'SAE J1772, NACS | 25ft', 'Bluetooth & WiFi', and 'easy NEMA 14-50 plug installation' on the 40-amp model. The vendor page read carries no warranty statement and no UL or ENERGY STAR claim. THE CERTIFICATION IS REAL EVEN THOUGH WALLBOX DOES NOT ADVERTISE IT, which is worth saying because the usual failure in this catalogue runs the other way: the EPA's own ENERGY STAR dataset lists partner 'Wall Box Chargers S.L.' with PULSAR PLUS NA, model PUP2-U-1-6-C-002, a Level 2 unit rated 48.00 A at 240 V for a maximum 11.52 kW with a 24 ft output cord, qualified 2023-10-03; a sibling record PUP1-U-1-6-C-002 carries the same rating with a 25 ft cord. One small discrepancy is recorded rather than smoothed: Wallbox's page advertises a 25 ft cable while the PUP2 certificate records a 24 ft output cord, and the PUP1 certificate records 25 ft — so the two model codes differ by a foot and the page does not say which trim you are buying. Nothing on this record depends on that foot. cloudDependent is true: control and monitoring run through Wallbox's service, and Home Assistant's integration reaches the charger by cloud polling rather than locally. 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 two mains configurations — the 40-amp trim's NEMA 14-50 plug and a hardwired install — and the choice changes the charging speed you get.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Wallbox publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
The advertised price is not the price of the product most people think they are buying. $649.99 gets you the 40-amp charger; solar charging and dynamic load management require the Power Meter accessory at $299.00, which takes the real total to $948.99 before an electrician touches it. If you are buying a smart charger to follow your own solar production, budget for both. Second, the federal help is gone: the 30C credit that covered 30% of a home charger up to $1,000 applied to property placed in service 'from January 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026' per the IRS's own page, so it expired weeks ago, and most published advice about charger economics is now out of date. Third — and this is the strange one — Wallbox's own marketing undersells the product. Its US page names no smart-home platform at all and makes no certification claim, yet the EPA's ENERGY STAR dataset shows Pulsar Plus models certified since October 2023, and Home Assistant ships an official integration with charge-current control, solar-mode selection, pause and resume and a full set of energy and cost sensors. The capability is real; the vendor just does not talk about it. Fourth, the consequence of that silence: if you are on Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home or SmartThings, this record can tell you nothing, because Wallbox has published nothing. Not a denial — an absence. And there is no Matter certificate to route around it, checked against the CSA database with a control. Practically, that means the smart half of this charger lives in Wallbox's app and, if you run it, in Home Assistant. Fifth, a specific trap worth reading twice if Home Assistant is your plan: the integration 'only supports a regular / email login, Apple or Google accounts are not supported'. Sign up with Apple or Google and the integration simply will not connect. Sixth, no subscription posture is published at all — Wallbox neither promises a free app nor mentions a fee — so this record records that as unknown rather than guessing in the vendor's favour. Finally, the thing this record deliberately does NOT tell you. Wallbox's corporate and listing status has been the subject of reported distress signals, and this catalogue tried and failed to verify any of it at a primary source during this build: the investor-relations pages render client-side and returned nothing readable, and SEC endpoints refused our requests. So no figure, filing or date is published here. That is not a clean bill of health — it is an open question, and in a category where the cautionary tale is a charger whose cloud went dark with about nine days' notice, it is one worth asking a seller about directly before you buy.
Who it's for
The right charger for a Home Assistant household, and it is not close — this is the deepest platform integration of any charger in this subcategory, giving you charge-current control, solar-mode selection, pause and resume, and cost and energy sensors, none of which any consumer voice platform offers for any charger. If you already run Home Assistant and you want a charger you can genuinely automate, start here. It also suits someone with home solar who is willing to pay for the Power Meter, since that is what turns solar-following charging on. And the 40-amp trim's NEMA 14-50 plug installation is the cheaper path if your panel and your electrician agree. It is the wrong charger for anyone whose smart home is Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home or SmartThings — not because it is known to fail there, but because Wallbox publishes nothing about any of them and holds no Matter certificate, so you would be buying on hope. Think twice if you signed up to Wallbox with an Apple or Google login, since the Home Assistant integration explicitly does not support those. Think twice if the $649.99 headline is your budget, because the accessory that makes it a solar charger is another $299.00. And think twice if long-term vendor stability is a deciding factor for you: this record could not verify the company's corporate position at a primary source, and it would rather say so than imply an answer it does not have.
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] Wallbox, Pulsar Plus US product page — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Product identity, Price, Protocols, Required hub or bridge, Maintenance, Power source, Installation, App platforms, Market availability, Service status, Subscription, Apple Home compatibility, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [2] Home Assistant, Wallbox integration documentation — counterparty documentation, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Capabilities, Subscription
- [3] 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
- [4] CSA-IoT certified products database, keyword search — registry research (control-tested), verified 2026-08-02Backs: Protocols, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [5] US Consumer Product Safety Commission, recall REST service — regulator-API research with control, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Service status
- [6] Attempted primary-source verification of Wallbox corporate status — investors.wallbox.com (client-side rendered, no readable content), SEC EDGAR browse and data.sec.gov submissions API (both HTTP 403), domain-restricted search (no 2026 material surfaced) — gap record — no primary source obtained, verified 2026-08-02
- [7] US Internal Revenue Service, Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit — regulator-source research, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Price
- [8] wallbox.com/en_us/wallbox-pulsar-plus, re-read 2026-08-09. Specification line: 'Connectivity: Bluetooth & WiFi'. FAQ on the same page, quoted as published: 'Whether you're near the charger and using Bluetooth or accessing it remotely via Wi-Fi, you're covered.' The page's app description covers scheduling charging sessions, monitoring energy use and energy-management features without restricting any of it to one transport. — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-17Backs: Protocols
- [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). Wallbox does not appear under any name tried: 'wallbox'. 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
- [11] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-244 absence-marker blast-radius repair) — internal-review, verified 2026-08-27
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