Cerbo GX

[Drive Wayne]

No, nothing

Rebooted?

 

[Skyliner33]

Rebooted?

Yes. Nothing.

 

[Matt-T68]

Make sure power is off to everything before connecting. Leisure battery off. Then turn it all on together maybe? I did the same and just cycled the battery off and on. Sorted mine

 

[Skyliner33]

Rebooted?

Make sure power is off to everything before connecting. Leisure battery off. Then turn it all on together maybe? I did the same and just cycled the battery off and on. Sorted mine

Just tried again. The total power off has done the trick.

Now to work out how to get the nice display.

 

[Skyliner33]

All sorted.

 

[Drive Wayne]

Now hit another snag. Since I rebooted the battery to get the screen to work, I seem to have lost connection to the VRM. Its showing last updated 3hours ago. Any suggestions?

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Are you plumbed into wifi?

 

[Matt-T68]

As @Drive Wayne points out you can only access VRM remotely if you have set up a WiFi connection. 3 hours was probably when you were connected locally to the system.

 

[Drive Wayne]

Hotspot your phone? Close to your home wifi?

 

[Skyliner33]

I rebooted it. Now its all sorted. Its parked at home, sometimes it picks up the home wifi sometimes it uses the vans wifi. I think maybe it got confused.

 

[Drive Wayne]

I rebooted it. Now its all sorted. Its parked at home, sometimes it picks up the home wifi sometimes it uses the vans wifi. I think maybe it got confused.

Come on then Jon, show us some screen grabs!

 

[Skyliner33]

Come on then Jon, show us some screen grabs!

All in good time. I need to connect the Roamer to the GX

 

[Drive Wayne]

All in good time. I need to connect the Roamer to the GX

That cable is quite fragile, be careful! Wear your best specs!

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

I think an S would be fine, just be aware you can't use wired temp or tank sensors.

Ve direct cable (there's different lengths and right angle versions) - Amazon.co.uk

Roamer CAN cable - Roamer CAN cable - SMART4 to Victron GX

And yeah, be warned the Cerbo GX is just the gateway drug... Before long you'll be several ruuvi tags, a 4g router, GPS sensor and tank level sensors in...

But, the data. Oh, the data...
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Paul do I need 3 VE direct cables?
One for shunt, one for OrionXS and one for the MPPT ?

 

[Skyliner33]

Paul do I need 3 VE direct cables?
One for shunt, one for OrionXS and one for the MPPT ?

Yes.

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

Yes.

Thanks I will get them ordered. I’m cracking on with my install

 

[TallPaul_S]

Yep basically anything that can connect to the Cerbo, does - mostly through VE direct.

 

[Matt-T68]

So 1 for the Victron massive. I have been having issues in that the shunt keeps stopping charging because it thinks the LB is at 100%. But the LB app says its only at 95%. I have reset the shunt to match but the Orion isn't starting to charge. Really starting to di my head in as I have checked it is getting an ignition feed to tell it the van is running but I don't know if the voltage settings are causing an issue. The van is charging but not ramping up as I assume the new starter battery is already topped off. Any ideas folks?

 

[Matt-T68]

 

[TallPaul_S]

I think your shunt settings might need changing, these are mine:




If the shunt is syncing to 100% before the battery gets to 14.2v then that's a wrong setting somewhere.

 

[Drive Wayne]

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There seems to be a 'buffer' on my Roamer 230, it never hits 100%, the maximum is 222Ah out of 230, the xs says 99%max, even with good solar input today. No shunt, no ignition feed.