The most common operation on a mobile system is to control the multi - Off, On, Charge Only and Inverter Only. With a Cerbo Touch 50, it requires finding the multi and then into the switch section.
It would be great if the Multi switch control functions were available as a popup on the home screen. Simply touch the Multi icon and control the state by a popup selection.
Hi Gary, this screen has exactly those functions:
Enable it in Settings -> Display & language:
I think Gary means you can turn the Multiplus on and of or in charge mode from the home screen ?
Instead of going though the menu, choose multiplus and then enable charging, both or off.
Hi @Leverg, in above page you can do exactly that. Those three gray boxes at the bottom are "buttons".
Oh, that`s nice, gonna get one Certbo touch today :) Yesterday bought a multiplus :) Keep going to Bodegraven :)
Hahaha, well best regards to our great distributor over there!
I included Inverter Only in the cycle in my GuiMods (and GuiMods2) enhancements to the Mobile Overview. I also provided the current mode in the black "switch" area on the inverter tile on the flow overview screen and touching that brings up a menu to select the mode you want as you described. Have a look:
https://github.com/kwindrem/GuiMods2
I use inverter only a bit especially when testing my system, for example to see how my RV will get by on just solar. Off and On are the most important modes in real life. I can see leaving a system in Charger Only when unattended so that a grid failure doesn't drain the batteries. Inverter Only doesn't really have any practical use outside of system testing which may be why it was left off the cycle. Just a guess.
Also, I agree that Inverter Only is not something most folks would use very often, so your guess is probably spot on. Like you, I use it for testing, but I also sometimes want to make sure I'm using solar to charge/power my RV instead of the host I'm plugged into. Why should I use their power when I can grab some for free from the sun? :-)
GuiMods and SetupHelper are installed on the GX device (Cerbo, etc.)
A recent addition to SetupHelper provides a "blind install" of it an GuiMods2 so all you need to do is put a file on a USB stick, place it in the GX device and reboot twice. See the SetupHelper ReadMe for details
The Control of my multi switch does not seem to work on my system from any screen. I can see this but can’t change the state.
(Currently I left the multi switched off because I’d did not have remote control)
Do I need to configure anything in the multi to enable remote control?
Hi Laurenceh in some systems you can’t switch the multi on and off, for example if you have a Digital Multi Control panel installed, or if you have a VE.Bus BMS.
See Cerbo manual for the exact details.
Thanks Matthijs, neither of these apply I have a multi compact 12/2000/80-30 connected by an mk3/USB to my raspberry pi Venus OS. I don’t feel to bad about not purchasing a Cerbo or CCGX given what I have spent on the Victron multi, bmv and MPPT.
Anyway as the Multi was installed by a Victron dealer but I then added the Venus OS bits I wondered if I needed to set dip switched inside the multi compact to enable remote switch control ( as appears to be necessary for the Digital multi control.)
Laurence
I considered adding inverter control to the "flow overview" (aka home screen). I had also considered setting AC input current limit as well. In the end, I decided a tap on the AC input tile to set current limit and a tap on the inverter to set it's mode would conflict with a swipe to change overview screens. The "tile overview" has a similar behavior in that a swipe on the bottom of the screen scrolls to a new set of tiles while a swipe on the top changes overviews so I may be overreacting.
