Import sensors through internal MQTT

Would it not be cool to get sensors from MQTT into CerboGX? Even switches like Shelly through MQTT? I’m new to the CerboGX, maybe I’m missing how-to-do that. I was thinking running a zigbee2mqtt container in my router using an ethernet co-ordinator and affordable (not RUUVI) sensors/switches to manage my RV.

Anyone managed doing this?

Cheers :slight_smile:

After much experimentation I find it the best to setup separate Raspberry PI to run Node Red and talk to Cerbo over DBus TCP and to other things via any other available mechanism, WiFi, Bluetooth, whatever you want…

That way you can easily follow all Cerbo updates without much added customization and have your playground elsewhere…

See here for my project: GitHub - mman/node-red-dashboard-ismove: Dashboard for Niesmann Bischoff iSmove

Looking nice, a layer on top of Cerbo as I understand. It would be great if one could read/set values directly from MQTT into venusOS, just to define kind of sensor and the subscription path.

You can use node red to directly access mqtt devices from the cerbo. I did this for a while but found it much nicer user experience and more user friendly to run Home Assistant on a rpi and now just let the cerbo do victron things and the rpi does everything else.

Thanks, but I want to take sensors not compatible with cerbo (zigbee) and include them into cerbo venusOS. Tempsensors, door sensors etc, and then do something smart with node-red.

…maybe this is an option for some: GitHub - freakent/dbus-mqtt-devices: A driver for Victron VenusOS GX devices to support use of dbus-mqtt/flashmq-mqtt

This looks very promising :slight_smile: Thanks