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Victron smart battery sense on VRM Portal

Hello

How to have the data from the smart battery sense for my Starter battery on the VRM Portal

I Create a VE. Smart networking


- BMV-712 + Battery temperature + Smart Solar + Smart Battery sense (Starter Battery)



My Setup

Victron Image = 2.33

Raspberry 3 B+

Window PC

-Victron smart battery sense for my Starter battery

-Victron BMV-712

-Victron Smart Solar Charger MPPt 100/50

All

Everything works when connected, I see all those on the iPhone app bu cannot see any information from the VRM for the battery sense


Did I bought a battery sense for nothing :-(


Raspberry PiSmart Battery Sensesensor
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joaher avatar image joaher commented ·

I have this weekend connected my system to vrm. I have one battery smart Sense and I can see the temperature in the MPPT solar charger . It is nor possible to see the actual sensor in VRM because it needs a ve.direct cable. It’s an excellent solution with RPi.

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grunkern answered ·

Hello there,
I have a similar question posted here
https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/31849/venus-os-and-data-collection-from-victron-devices.html

My feeling is from what other people on some non-Victron Forums are saying is that it is unlikely that Venus on RPI will ever have a build that utilises the BT network developed by Victron.
Therefore to get Data from Victron devices to your RPI and the VRM portal you need to have VE.Direct to USB from a port on the device in question to retrieve the data
As SMART Battery sense is simply a BT device then you cannot (as far as I know) get the data into the VRM portal

Cheers

Robert

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