This is a dedicated section for general DESS discussion - issues, requests etc. Dynamic ESS on VRM Dynamic ESS is live on VRM! 2024-05-07: Make sure to check Dynamic ESS: Green mode - VictronEnergy too. What is Dynamic ESS? Dynamic ESS is an algorithm that aims to minimize the costs made on the …

Unable to click submit to make changes ie) can not turn off battery balance , submit is greyed out [Screenshot from 2025-10-06 22-35-33]

Hi @MasterCATZ , We made a fix for your problem. Now setting it to Off should work for you too. Thank you for reporting! Best regards, Alex Imbrea

we’re going to investigate further tomorrow and implement a long-term fix. We’ve found the root cause; not always closing TCP connections properly, leading to connection exhaustion. This has been fixed now.

Hello, Since the start of energy prices per 15 minutes, the DESS system is behaving abnormal. It has been a week since the batteries have been fully charged and discharged while the energy prices were high and low enough to trade. Is there a known issue with the 15 minute prices? Or is there somet…

Hello, Last winter season, I activated DESS in my Multiplus II and operated it with Tibber. It worked perfectly. During the summer months, I deactivated DESS because there was enough power coming from the roof. Today, due to the electricity prices (60 cents tonight), I wanted to reactivate DESS. T…

Great, thank you, it works now. :+1:

Can anyone help me? For a while last year I had Dynamic ESS enabled and it was working fine. I then turned it off in favour of plain ESS charge periods. I’m now trying to turn it back on and I cannot seem to do it. Switching the Dynamic ESS toggle switch at the top of the settings page shows a succ…

[image] chrishipgrave: Any ideas? Looks like a bug on the VRM side. Pinged a colleague to look into that.

Any updates on this by any chance? I’m still receiving the error.

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Timdotcom 23 October 2025 07:11 34

Hi,
You should enable it in the controls menu in the top right corner.

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