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Ohme Home Pro vs Ohme ePod — which home EV charger?

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Ohme Home Pro and Ohme ePod are two 7.4 kW Type 2 smart wallboxes in our catalogue. They share a brand and several flags. They are not the same box. “An Ohme” is not a model name.

Both rows are marked app, solar, load balancing, OCPP, and octopus-compatible. Most UK houses are single-phase, so 7.4 kW is the usual driveway rating either way. The useful split is tethered versus socket, the printed IP rating, and which names sit on the tariff-API line.

We do not rank “which is better”. Both catalogue From figures include standard installation in the manufacturer line. That is not a fitted total for every driveway, and it is not a reason to treat the printed spread as a hardware saving.

Get a quote. We pass the enquiry to opted-in OZEV-authorised electricians. We do not promise a number of quotes, a reply time, or a public installer list.

What the catalogue actually says

Both rows, last verified 19 October 2026:

The Home Pro tagline in our copy is an app-first tethered charger with a 5 m Type 2 lead and Octopus tariff sync. The ePod tagline is the Home Pro brain in a smaller socketed box, no screen, 4G as standard. Those are catalogue lines, not a lab test and not a ranking of screens.

Do not subtract £949 from £999 and call that the difference between the two units. Both figures include standard installation. We do not say what that package covers on your driveway.

Tethered 5 m versus a socket is the driveway

Home Pro is tethered only with a printed 5 m lead. ePod is untethered only. Tethered vs untethered is whether the lead lives on the wallbox, or you bring your own Type 2 cable. 5 m vs 7.5 m is that printed length against the parking bay.

A 5 m tethered lead is not the install run from the consumer unit. Ordering Home Pro does not move the board closer to the bay. ePod does not include a lead in our data; you still need a matching Type 2 cable that reaches the inlet.

If you want a socket option on an Ohme, ePod is the socketed row. Home Pro is not marked “both”.

The tariff-API lines are not identical

Both rows are marked octopus-compatible. That flag is not unique to Ohme. On the current snapshot, 4 of 54 current rows carry it: Home Pro, ePod, Indra Smart Pro, and Octopus Charge. Head-to-head on Home Pro versus Octopus Charge: Octopus Charge vs Ohme Home Pro. See smart energy tariffs.

The tariff-API line we print is Octopus on Home Pro and Octopus, OVO, British Gas on ePod. The ePod tagline still says “same Octopus tariff APIs”. Those are catalogue lines. They are not the supplier’s live charger list. Check the tariff with the supplier before you treat either SKU as approved.

An app schedule can still put a session into an off-peak window if you set it. That is already true of every current catalogue row — all 54 of 54 are marked app. A named tariff-API line is a different claim.

A pence-per-kWh rate or a payback in months are not quoted here.

Head-to-head on Home Pro versus Zappi: Ohme Home Pro vs MyEnergi Zappi. Head-to-head on Home Pro versus Solo 3: Pod Point vs Ohme.

Solar, load balancing, and OCPP are marked on both

Both rows are marked solar. A solar mark means surplus-PV / Eco modes when the installer fits the clamps and you ask for those settings. It is not a grant checkbox, not an MCS certificate, and not an export-tariff product. On the current snapshot, 43 of 54 current rows are marked solar. Filter Solar diversion on the catalogue rather than treating Ohme as the surplus-PV brand. EV chargers and solar panels is the matching page.

Both rows are marked load balancing. Load balancing is a supply-limit feature, not surplus-PV and not a tariff API. On the current snapshot, 47 of 54 current rows are marked. See load balancing on a UK domestic supply.

Both rows are marked OCPP. Losing a screen, or choosing a socket, is not the same as losing the legal minimum smart functions. New private wallboxes sold in Great Britain still have to be smart — see smart vs dumb.

Home Pro prints IP55. ePod prints IP54. An IP rating is weather sealing on that SKU, not a planning rule and not a reason to treat ePod as indoor-only. We do not say that every outdoor bay “needs IP55”.

What a useful quote should name

Ask for the exact catalogue model. Home Pro is the tethered 5 m Ohme. ePod is the socketed Ohme. Then whether it is the attached lead or your own Type 2 cable, whether CT clamps or tariff / app setup are included if you asked for those modes, the cable run they priced, whether consumer-unit work is included or excluded, certification, DNO notification, and VAT. What to expect from the quote is the list.

Both From figures include standard installation in the manufacturer line. That is still not a fitted total for every driveway. A typical UK fitted price, or a “fair spread” between these two SKUs, is not quoted here.

How it works is the matching path. You book and pay the electrician. Compare itemised lines if more than one opted-in installer replies. There is no ChargerFit SLA that you will get three quotes.

Grants are a separate check

A tariff-API wallbox is not automatically grant-eligible, and a solar-marked wallbox is not a solar grant. From 1 April 2026 the live GOV.UK chargepoint schemes pay up to £500 per socket (75% of the cost, capped at £500). Funding is confirmed until 31 March 2027. See current GOV.UK rules and who still qualifies.

Do not have the charger installed until OZEV has confirmed you are eligible. Both of these rows are marked OZEV residential-eligible on the 19 October 2026 snapshot. A row in our catalogue is not a grant approval.

Get a quote. We pass the enquiry to opted-in OZEV-authorised electricians. We do not promise a number of quotes, a reply time, or a public installer list.

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