Feature request: Add info notifications to VRM app on smartphone (e.g. grid feed-in and solar power)

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It would be nice if the smartphone VRM app could give the user some audible and/or visual notifications.
For example, if grid feed-in occurs beyond a chosen level, or if solar production exceeds an established threshold.
Thus one would not have to monitor the VRM display visually all the time to decide when it is good to power on or off the dishwasher, dryer, etc. to enhance self-consumption.

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VRM has a manual, and in this is a section on setting up alarms, which can either be emailed to you or received as notifications on the phone. You will need to set up push notifications.

Alarms and monitoring, VRM manual

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Hi @pwfarnell !
Thanks for pointing me to this. However, this is not quite what I intended.

If I set up an alarm for some of the overwhelming choice of parameters of all connected devices, I get exactly this: an alarm.
If the alarm condition is met, a notification pops up, saying “VRM problem” and in the VRM dashboard a red bar appears, displaying the alarm. It is even recorded forever(?) in the alarm log.
This is great if you want to monitor your system for faults of any kind, but if you just want to be informed of some totally normal state change, this is way too much.

It would be nice, if one could just be informed of certain system states, e.g. if grid feed-in (ideally as a total of all three phases) exceeds a certain limit, so one can turn on the dishwasher manually to increase self-consumption.

Or, to rephrase the previous feature request:
Add user-definable informational notifications (apart from warnings and alarms), that can be used as reminders for the user.

If this could be done by use of Node Red, it would be great as well.
Thanks!

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I know that node red can be used to generate emails and SMS messages if you add additional libraries but I do not know about generating VRM messages, you would have to look in the documentation.

https://www.victronenergy.com/live/venus-os:large

https://github.com/victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron/wiki/Example-Flows

https://communityarchive.victronenergy.com/questions/277038/node-red-for-dummies-guide.html?childToView=277054

https://github.com/victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron/wiki/Available-nodes