BETA: Connect your Electrical Vehicle to VRM

Hi, sorry I missed this message. You mean that the Mazda did not re-appear after switching to your new account?

Did it in the meantime?

Short version:

I removed the Ford car and account from VRM > Voorkeuren > Integraties > Voertuigen. Then I switch back to the dashboard of my installation: the Mazda is also gone.

Long version, with screenshots:

The dashboard “before” shows both vehicles:

VRM > Voorkeuren > Integraties > Voertuigen shows both vehicles:

Steps:

  1. Click on the “Ontkoppelen” button of the Ford vehicle.
  2. Click on the “Ontkoppelen” button of the Ford account.

The dashboard “after” shows no more vehicles. The Mazda is also gone:

VRM > Voorkeuren > Integraties > Voertuigen shows the Mazda account, but now the Mazda vehicle is also gone here:

Thank you for the elaborate runthrough, @Lucian will take a look :slight_smile:

Honestly speaking… nice integration but toooooo EXPENSIVE

Requesting SOC and Range is almost for free with every App or by API doesn’t matter Audi or Hyundai for my example.
Even with HomeAssistant I can get this Informations for Free !

For 60 Euro i get on Hyundai and Audi a full Subscription with FULL Control to my Car(s)

Too Expensive Victron, you should think about your Price strategy
Nice but I will not make a Subscription afterwards for that Price just to see SOC and Range in VRM

They actually supplied a virtual ev node in the latest beta. I use that now for testing and it has great potential this way. Waiting for it to integrate with dess and then it is just perfect.

have to see how everything ends up, but if it has the same functionality it is perfect. Paid feature for people who want a plug and play solution, and a virtual nodered solition for the nerds.. best of both worlds then!

You can get the info for free, we can’t.
It is a differnece between personal and comercial use for most of the brands.
And we are using a 3rd party platform to get the data.
And as you can see below form Japie, there is a solution that allows you to do it for free.

Hi Victron staff (hi Community),

can report that all runs flawlessly since the issue (see above) is fixed.

Feature request (if possible) :

The Fiat EV (500e) needs the pin (token) to update information (manually) during loading the car. (function lack of vendor cloud/app)

Would be nice here to have a workaround configuring this token to send in a cycle from the victron plugin.

Thanks for your effort anyway

Ottmar


Good morning everyone.

My name is Dani, and I’m new here.

I’m testing this beta version, and after repeatedly trying to link the vehicle, I can’t get the maximum battery capacity to appear, nor does it show up in the DESS options. The car is a 2024+ Tesla Model 3 with an NMC battery.

I’ve attached screenshots.

Am I doing something wrong?

Please excuse my limited English; I’m using translation tools.

Thank you very much.

Best regards.

Hi @TrustButVictronify,

Thank you for reporting this bug to us. It has been fixed.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this!

Kind regards,

Lucian

Hi - I’m unable to choose a VRM installation to link my car to; the drop down just says “No results” (and if I start typing an installation name this doesn’t change). See screenshot attached. Do I need to configure the installation in some way first? This is using the VRM beta website.

Hi @chultquist , you will only be able to link an EV to a site that has a Victron EVCS. Do you have any sites that fulfill that requirement?

Ah, thanks @Barbara - that explains it. I don’t have a Victron EVCS but I do have a third-party (Garo) EVCS which I have not yet looked into integrating with VRM.

My car is a Skywell ET5 (in Europe, Elaris I think). It shows up as “Guest EV”. Advise if I can help in any way.

Hi @arnotixe , did you link your vehicle to the site? Does it show in the device list of that site?

There is no Skywell entry in the list (factory is actually called Skyworth, but the car is marketed as Skywell here in Ecuador) so not sure how to link it? :thinking:

I don’t think there is any app for the car from the factory’s side either – not sure what this linking would do, except maybe showing the brand in VRM? :slight_smile:

Hi @arnotixe ,

You are correct, Skywell is not supported by the API of EVs we connect to.

The linking will inform VRM of the state of charge of the car as well as check whether it is at the installation location, so it can charge optimally until the target SOC and it will advice you to plug in the car when it is near the charger but not plugged in.

I don’t know if you are familiar with NodeRED, but you might want to try and link a virtual EV to your site, and loading it with the Skywell data. However, you mention the car itself does not come with an app, so you might want to check how you’d get to your car data.

Hope that helps you further until Skywell does get support!

What a great integration (Mazda MX-30). I have been pulling my hair out trying to figureout how to get info into my vrm/home assistant. Is there a way to display the range in miles instead of kilometers? If not could we get that next to the c/f, litres/gallons, etc in the settings. Thanks

Hi. The integration doesn’t work very well for me. The Tesla Y is imported as a device, the system recognizes it as it is, but it still doesn’t identify it in the description and doesn’t show the range. The second car, the KIA EV3, is integrated, I see it in the device on the console, but it didn’t create a widget in VRM and it’s not visible in the list of devices in VRM