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Victron BLE Dashboard using Pi/Signalk/Grafana

I read some announcements here about Victron BLE protocol being opened up:

https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/187303/victron-bluetooth-advertising-protocol.html


https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/137214/victronconnect-see-readings-immediately-on-the-dev.html


So as I have the following devices in my van:

Victron Smart Orion DC-DC Charger

Victron Smart MPPT Solar

Victron Smart Shunt


... and as there is no support in Venus OS for Victron BLE as yet, still need cables I believe, I decided to fire up my pi 4 and touchscreen and installed:

signalk

influxdb

grafana


Next I installed the plugin for signalk victron ble

There is some great work being done here to read in the values from the victron devices over BLE, no cables needed - nice!!

https://github.com/stefanor/signalk-victron-ble


It is based upon following library which you will need install to be able get the mac addresses and keys you need for the Victron BLE devices.

https://github.com/keshavdv/victron-ble



It is still work in progress and had to fix some issues with my local copy of the code, plus I added some extra fields for Solar Power and Yield, I have not followed any Signalk data tree spec, but the fields are still imported and sent to Grafana via InfluxDB - so all good from my point of view :

Add dcdc converter #1

https://github.com/stefanor/signalk-victron-ble/pull/1

Issue : DcDc Off Reason

https://github.com/keshavdv/victron-ble/issues/20


I am sure these will all be addressed soon, but here is a preview of what my Grafana dashboard looks like in my van. I am super pleased, did I mention no cables required it is all over BLE and the other advantage is it can support Orion DC charges also so I can show charge status and Van Starter Battery voltage.


screenshot-2023-04-03-at-185612.png


Steve



victron productsgrafanaSignalKBluetooth Low Energy - BLE
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Nice!
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jensneg answered ·

Great. Have a similar config in my boat and will try it. Especially because of the Orion-Tr B2B without VE.direct.

Thank you, @steveuk71

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