Polling Venus OS via VE.direct port

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bashers asked Nov 5, '21

Polling Venus OS via VE.direct port

I've successfully connected my third party battery to my Venus OS running on Pi and, as mentioned elsewhere cant get the serial port running on my pi3.

What I've just realised is that i've not asked the million dollar question of whether I can actually poll the Venus OS for battery info from the lithium battery and if this whole journey is worth it
The BMS is connected via can bus and is showing up correctly in VRM. I just need this presented over ve.direct so my solar assistant can aggregate the battery status with the inverter

Venus OS Raspberry Pi VE.Direct

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shaneyake answered · Nov 06, 2021 at 03:21 AM

The answer is no or basically no. You can't really get any data via the VE.Direct port from the Venus. If you want data from the GX, it is best to get it via Modbus TCP, coming from the GX ethernet connection. This has all the battery data available.

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bashers answered · Nov 07, 2021 at 05:40 PM

thanks for the clarification.
Its been fun, but its a shame the efforts not been worth it

Anyone need a brand new pi 2 and a pi3??

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