Hi Andy, this is Phong from California USA. I just started using my old android phone that connected to all my bms through Bluetooth at home then I use my new android phone and downloaded unattended teamviewer app and connect the new phone to old phone at home so you can monitor all your bms. Now I can fully monitor and control my devices at home. Phong

Victron should be giving you the BIGGEST thank Andy.... ive been trying for so long to do this and you've explained it so simply.... Bloody legend.... 👍👍🌎

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you so much. I hope you can work it out now.

@65bigfalconable

3 жыл бұрын

@@OffGridGarageAustralia Already ready done.... thanks again.... what's the next thing we are building.... ha ha 👍

This has to be the best part of a Victron system now you are officially a solar GEEK

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

It is so cool, I'm really addicted now to this. Victron costs more than other solution but you get all this for free.

Absolutely excellent Andy! You put in a ton of work into this and your website info. This really helps the community!!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Yeah that was a bit of work actually. Especially recording it twice 😂

Awesome, The clearest and most straightforward explanation from beginning to end. WOW!!! 5 stars

Excellent tutorial, Thank You for saving me hours of my time researching and testing. You are the archetype of what a KZread video tutorial should convey, just simply amazing useful stuff!!! Not just this video but your entire series!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Jim!

This is one of the very best and most useful videos I've seen on KZread! Subbed, Alarmed and Liked! Thank you!!! PS. I love your style. You are very natural on the video, and it makes watching them so much more interesting than the perfectly edited YT videos that feel like some professional movie makers have made it, and so they are not so believable and honest feeling. Thanks again! Barry.

You are the man!!! Followed your videos step by step and have my first off grid system running with the Pi.....and you're right, it's addicting to watch! Many thanks!!

I've been wanting to do something with these tiny computers for awhile - but something practical as well. Doesn't get any better than this - simply AWESOME! You must really be happy that Jason convinced you to move forward with this part of the project.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Jason's email was certainly a trigger. I watched some videos about the setup before and they were all complicated. His 'list' was so simple, I had to try it...

Andy, your most excellent content helped me quickly setup a spare RPi to monitor the Victron gear in my RV. I also added the RPi shutdown feature from one of your other videos. Both tutorials were clear and concise, and easy to follow. You are a great teacher. Left a little deposit in your S.P.A.T. account, as a token of my appreciation. Thanks a bunch, Partner! 👏👏

Nice! I did the same, but with Victron VE Direct to USB cables. Expensive at $28 USD, but very easy and the connectors are normal USB size.

I've been watching a ton of your videos over the last few days and I just had to say I haven't laughed like I just did in a long time at 3:04. I think your content is fantastic and informative and you made my morning here in Sunny South Africa! Looking forward to seeing more of your content.

Hi Andy, all the way from sunny Malta. Thanks for these PV solar off-grid informative videos. You have just helped me in operating successfuly Victron Venus ver3.4 with Raspberry pi and now I am just waiting to receive the rest of my Victron equipment and connect them to the VRM Portal. You are an inspiration to us all.

My Raspi is ALIVE! 😁I am very excited to monitor and manage my environment from anywhere. Many thanks to your awesome tutorial 🍻

Glad I watched this. I was about to buy 4 $28USD Victron cables. Ordered from amazon enough parts to make 6 cables for the price of 1 Victron and delivered the next day to boot! Thank you from California.

Thank you so much for this video. I had it setup and working in no time. Only thing I did differently was to use the VE Direct cable, makes it truly plug and play. Now I'm thinking about selling all my non Victron gear and replacing it all with the Victron equivalent.

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I downloaded Venus last week but I wasn't really getting anywhere with it. Followed this tutorial today and it's now working.

Moin Andy, you made my day! Untüddel the cable👍 Your explanation inspired me to buy all the stuff needed to see and log my installation in our little caravan. It took two days to get the most things needed, and two hours later my installation is registered in Victron's VRM portal. It's easy as you described, no problems occured, simply insane! Now I've still to prepare cables to connect all devices, as soon as I've got the JST-plugs. Your videos are a great help to understand things about LiFePO4 behaviour, loading, unloading and so on. Greats form Cologne (Germany)

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great feedback, Paul. I'm glad the setup worked for you and you could follow the instructions. It's much easier than we all thought, I guess. All the best and stay save Gruesse nach Koeln.

Four words after this. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Haven't even finished watching the video but had to make a post saying that I really dig your sense of humor - keep it up!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Excellent video! You did a great job explaining the setup! Thank you!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter!

Andy, this is the most common sense, straight forward video (this subject) on KZread. You Sir, are a rock star and produce brilliance!!! Thank you for saving me so much frustration and expense...CHEERS!!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great feedback, Paul. Much appreciated.

I look forward to seeing more videos on this system. Thanks!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

More to come!

Thanks again Andy, last week i got my raspberry pi4 all connected to my victron multiplus 3k 24v Invertor charger and just got the cables you linked and in ten minutes I had added my smart link.... now to figure out how to link my non victron stuff... keep em coming pal!

Excellent, this brought it all together. Thank you Andy. I use RPI for my HA setup so it was easy to follow. Now to add it to the Energy section of HA. Thanks ... and figure out an optional way to buy you a coffee 👍

works really well, thank you. Mine was set up on R Pi3 and also done the shutdown from the gui mod on your other video. It now can see my SMA Sunnyboy inverter after I updated it to the ltest firmware and logged in using Sunny Explorer and Enable the TCP and UDP server, keep the default port. Then I searched for inverters in Venus OS and now showinging my solar power. Keep up the good, very impressed.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Great tutorial, great enthusiasm. Thank you very much.

The funny thing is, i bought one too, 2 days before. It is so damn easy to setup. Great that its open source!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it's really complicated, but it's really easy...

This is really great! A must have for my system (eventually)! Thanks for the awesome info guys! Big up!!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Great video Andy!!! Keep on!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

Your tutorials are highly informative

Hi, I was looking fior this Raspbery installation of Venus OS in the internet and found your video. Apart from the meritholical content, I found you very positive and open person. Keep up doing good work. Garage is also my place to live :)

I started googling this several times, everytime i got confused and frustrated so i skipped it. And now of course you came along, 30 min funny video - simpel, works, great! Thanks a lot Andy! Maybe i also should place a picture of you, the battery and the garage in my bedroom. My wife could not confused any further because i even concentrated on your videos when baywatch-like scenes in tv nearby... 😍maybe you should be concerned now...😳😯🤣

Absolutely brilliant!! Very clearly explained. I was trying to do this for my boat but was missing the vital information about the connections between the Pi and my smart Battery monitor, Inverter and MPPT. Thank you very much!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks, Dave.

I love your site I have been watching you for a while now and find you interesting and informative. Keep up your doing great

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice feedback, David!

I'm still thinking to buy one PI cause I don't have any idea on that this helps me a little. I added to watch later. 😁👍

Thank you a 1000 times over. The hardest part of the Raspberry Pi configuration was putting the circuit board into its case! I'm no computer whiz-bang....AT ALL. However, I will tell you this- if your Victron MPPT doesn't appear in Rsp/Venus/VRM change the Victron MPPT setting TX port function to "normal communication". The settings for the MPPT are found in the Victron Connect "app" .

If you use the VictronConnect app, you can connect via Bluetooth, then connect it to the VRM Portal without having to write the serial number across. Great stuff.

What a GREAT VIDEO, thank you so much Sr. for your effort and sharing with us your knowleadge. Warms Regards since Queretaro in México.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment.

Best video yet - looking forward to you messing around with RAS-P in future episodes...

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dan!

i like "untüdel" - lovely! greetings from germany!!! René

Thank you for your tutorial. Nice and clear.

all done thanks to Kevin for working out a Guimod issue with Venus OS3.20 and Andy for all his great content and motivating me to get my little off grid shed system connected to VRM with an Rpi👍

It was a very pleasant experience to follow your tutorial ! Many thanks. For RPI 4 the only challenge was to get the VRM code for version 3.0.

Жыл бұрын

I have a RPI 4 with 2 miniHDMI. What image do I need for this? Is this version 3.0 that I need? Link to that?

Best tutorial I’ve seen great job 👏

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Great video Andy. Makes me wonder why I got the Cerbo GX. The Victron VRM portal is terrific and it is one of the main reasons I set my system up using Victron equipment.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bruce. The Cerbo has some other features which the Pi does not provide. Also, it's easier to setup, some people are not into computer stuff at all and the Cerbo is just a plug'n play.

Thanks Andy, so interesting and well done.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Fabulous info. A great help getting my system online. Many Thanks.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot, Matt. Great support.

Excellent video.

You have a great system going in your garage. Good job.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for share it! 🙂

@OffGridGarageAustralia

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great video, and really informative. We have been looking at installing Victron gear in our Hilux and your video are really informative and helpful Thank you 😊

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great video 👌 Hopefully now more people will just do this as it's super easy! 👍

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

It is easy, right. I did it 3 times now. Twice for this video 😊

Great! You are the man! Your style of presenting that stuff is so motivating - I will try this now myself. I already got a CERBO-GX device to control my Victron stuff But I already lost one CERBO - don´t know how that happened - and returned it for good. But if this happens again, I don´t have the intention to buy a third one - better the Raspi! Congrats to me for finding your great channel!!! :)

Amazing!!! Love it!!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Joe!

Thankyou so much for this video, I’ve completed it today and it all works perfectly first try Thanks to you and Jason for helping you to make this video possible! I 3D printed my own Pi case though because I have the printer so why not 😜 thanks again Andy!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, Lexi and your kind words.

Another great video Andy thank you

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you James

great video Andy, thank you

thanks Jason thanks Andy - I've been looking for this type of solution for my off grid victron set up and will be giving it a go over the next few weeks. Danke - tschüss

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mike. It's really easy to do and worth the time.

@mikeKirwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@OffGridGarageAustralia so far, so good. I'm 2/3rds of the way through this process and have only had one minor issue so far - after booting up the Pi with VenusOS for the 1st time. venus.local didn't work. So I looked up my DHCP table on the router, saw that my Pi had a local IP address and typed that in the search bar. This then allowed me to complete the online set up with the VRM portal. Now I need to run a network connection to where my Victron Control equipment lives and complete Stage 3 of this install. To be continued............ Thanks again Jason/Andy

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeKirwin thank you so much for your feedback and sharing. You're right, venus.local may not show up immediately after booting. It could take a while until this address is associated with the network IP and published through your router. This all depends on the network equipment used. Looking for the correct IP in a router is almost a video tutorial by itself ☺️

Good Morning. Thank You. Jack

Super easy! Done on a RPi2A. Next the soft shut down button....😀

I LOVE RASPBERRY PI'S!!!!?!?!? Such an awesome little computer.

From one old fart to another. I've got a Pi B4 running, works great but I'm adding a Victron smart shunt to the system and the I'll reconfigure the Pi to run this. Loving your videos mate, great work.

This is an awesome video. I didn't realize it was so easy. If I didn't already have a CCGX then I would definitely do this. I may do this if I do a 2nd setup.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

I was really surprised too, watched a few videos before and always thought it sound very complicated. But it clearly isn't.

Absolutely beautifulllll🤩 Thanks!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Super Video!!! Ich werde mir gleich einen Rapsberry bestellen...

This is very professional bro 😊

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁

Great information

Another great video thanks. I purchased a colour control GX (thankfully used, so a lot cheaper than new) but the original owner hadn’t released the Portal ID so I couldn’t use it - thankfully sorted with a few emails back and forth. I’ve also used the RasPi this way and the result is pretty similar to the colour control, especially if you add a touch screen to the RasPi. With a touch screen connected it’s pretty much a mini Cerbo GX - but the screen does need one of the USB ports for the touch functionality to work.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Great, Ian. I was going to purchase a GX device to and looked at the Octo GX as it has many VE.Direct ports for future gear.

@iainkay3630

3 жыл бұрын

@@OffGridGarageAustralia I think you would need that Octo GX box if you end up going with your plan of one charge controller per string :) it also looks pretty similar to your existing box I believe so would fit right in. Nice work with the pi though. No point buying the GX unless you need it!

Awesome, thank you!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thanks for the videos Andy and sharing your expierence! I can only add my own expierence with RPi's (have been playing with them for last years): 1) don't turn it off unplugging cable - that can damage your data on SD card 2) better don't use cheap microSD cards, they will get corrupted quite soon and also cause RPi just to hang up. I have found so far best expierence with Samsung Pro Endurance (video surveillance cards). For best you can also use the USB HDD for booting/storing the system. 3) I would better buy model Pi4 with 2GB RAM, it's not more expensive than Pi3, but it's more reliable, has USB HDD boot support and also more powerful. You can add other stuff to it (e.g., saw you have some network server (?) for file share - you can make a Pi as a backup server in garage - to be safe if something happens in house :))

Noch nie so eine geile Anleitung zu diesem Thema gesehen✌ mega,danke dafür. Das werde ich sofort nachbauen😊 Gruß, Jürgen

@hammerbrei9309

3 жыл бұрын

Hallo Wo bekomme ich die USB Kabel?

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Vielen Dank, Herr Professor 😉

That was great. Thanks! I am gonna order all this stuff instead of a cerbo GX

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. It works for almost a year now without problems and far more flexible than a GX.

Love the accent :). Very informative. Love your videos. Very easy to follow and understand. Keep up the good work.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Good job

Thank you very much very informative.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Andy your awesome. Thank you.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary. I love this Pi and setup so much. It gives me all the info from anywhere and I can adjust the settings wherever I am.

Sehr gut 👍

I've been using the Raspberry Pi 3b for over a year now. My next project will be trying to figure out how to connect my generator for auto-start to the Raspberry Pi.

I got a pi3b+ running a solid state relay for me to turn off my panels. Works like a charm.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, wow, great, that sound interesting.

@andrewshowland

3 жыл бұрын

@@OffGridGarageAustralia yeah I like having redundancy and even though my charge controller does a good job at this its a nice way for me to control the flow of power to my batteries and I can run a simple python program to turn them on or off from anywhere. I'm so happy I figured out that I could do this. Have a great day Andy!

Thanks for helping to create low cost VE.Drirect cable

@OffGridGarageAustralia

10 ай бұрын

Bare in mind, it is not isolated like the original Ve.direct cables.

@techmaster_sree

10 ай бұрын

@@OffGridGarageAustralia thanks, I have not used the red cable

Lookin good Andy. Final step i think sunny weather , shorts, dark beer, poolhang and victron vrm.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

That's the way!

no need spitting on the lens - P in rasPberry is silent. Zuper! :) Thank you for the video.

Mind blown. rasp pi on the list for my mppt and my pico brewing machine

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Uhhh, a solar powered brewing machine???

Great video Sir, I can appreciate your attitude and enthusiasm about what you're doing, keep it up ! Maybe one question, is it possible to remotely monitor your system and what's on Pi just by logging into the Pi itself? Or is the connection to Victron website on their end essential for this to work? I like this idea, but I would like it even more if it worked standalone without needing Victron's end of it.

Amazing info

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Great video, I just came across this one now! I would have definitely done it the lazy way though and left the plug as it is and just plugged it into the "wrong" connectors in the USB.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I have also shown some of the features of your battery in the 'Peter' inverter video. Maybe some will buy your battery already.

Thank you very interesting 👍

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Very welcome

The Mac Curse.... made the light fall on you 😂😂😂

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

It did, right after the joke... how spooky! 👻

Thanks - kit ordered, should be all up & running in 3 days from now... ...I hope 🤞🤣

Ras⭐️p...... 🥸....brilliant video..... thank you 👍

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

Thanks!

@OffGridGarageAustralia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your support!

This works great for the mppt charge controller. Thanks for such comprehensive details. Now if I can only get hold of another Pi! I am also hoping to work out how to get data from my Victron multi-plus since this uses an ethernet type port, but the data must be there. Just need to figure out which pins to use.

I found your video *after I got VenusOS on RPi but this vid is still great! I'm trying to figure out how to monitor my EPEVER MPPT's with VenusOS as well as monitor my 12v battery voltage (as cheap as possible! LOL)

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

If the EPever has a CAN or RS485 port, it may work somehow. Google it and see if someone was successful with that.

Excellent and funny tutorial! This may help a lot of people who may save money on CERBO GX! Much obliged.

Thank youuu

Thanks. KISS-Keep It Short Simple

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually my longest video yet. And I left a lot stuff out. More to come. Thank you!

As an old fart with 40+ years of computer experience, I should probably laugh, but you do a good job explaining everything. Kudos.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, thank you John.

super helpful sir! I was able to use an old Raspberry Pi with a USB dongle. Everything works beautifully except for the AC load stuff my inverter is Magnum not Victron. That's okay as that information isn't all that important. Mainly I'd like to look at the PV charging history and battery consumption. Thanks again.

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback. Great you've got it working...

Thanks

@OffGridGarageAustralia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your support!