External Battery Monitor for Multiplus Assistants

Questions about Multiplus/Quattro Assistants. When selecting the Programmable Relay is there a way to have the Switch Conditions use a Victron SmartShunt for the battery monitor to trigger the relay? The Shunt is connected via VE.Direct to a Cerbo where the Inverter is connected via VE.Bus. To me it seems the Cerbo should be able to share the Shunt SOC to the inverter via VE.Bus.

I have an 12v RV System that I want to trigger a hot water heater with excess solar. But I don’t want to use the Multiplus Internal Battery Monitor since that would not be tracking DC Loads or Charges sources?

My work around was either using relays from the Cerbo into the Aux ports of the Multi, or just try and figure out Node Red. Any thoughts would be helpful.

Edit: I may have just answered my own question here. (https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Cerbo_GX/en/configuration.html#UUID-d221b212-b5c6-177b-f16d-cfe6d68c029a) (Section 8.2.6) But with the new GUI I can’t find this screen. Does the Multiplus just use the Shunt by default if a Cerbo GX is connected? Or is it done in System Setup → Battery Monitor?

The Cerbo sends the SOC of the SmartShunt to the MultiPlus.

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