Looking for Testers and Feedback: Secure, Local-First Monitoring Platform for Victron Systems

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Hi Brucey, we don’t have a Lynx device yet to integrate it in the app, we are waiting for the delivery. Maybe next year, but we can expedite this with your help and find a solution faster to integrate it to your needs. We are doing active development on this app

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Hi Didier, i sent you a mail

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Thanks for the info. Do you support ve.can sccs or just via ve.direct for now as well?

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For now we support MQTT data ingestion, next year we plan for the SCCs and can bus using a RPI device most probably.

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I am interested in testing this new monitoring platform.

Kind regards, Daniel

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Use this gist, i have an email contact too, if you have troubles installing it, contact me we can set a zoom

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I would be happy to evaluate / test this. I am totally off-grid using 2 Victron multi.

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Any plans to port this to Raspberry Pi?

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You can already use it on RPI, the images are built for 2 platforms, amd64 and arm64. Let me know if you have issues installing deploying it.

https://gist.github.com/bolchisb/143c5dc749a0b52bab15f9941ad14469

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Hi. Does this software need to run on the RPI4 that is running Venus OS Large? (Less resources available) Or can it run on a separate PI5 where my current grafana runs with lots of spare capacity, not to mention an SSD, not an SD card. Thanks

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Hier hou have a new tester plesse

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No restrictions, you can run it on whatever you like, it is independent

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here also a tester from Africa: [moderator edit: removed private email address]

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Mail sent

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Bolchisb, I’m interested in helping test your new monitoring / mgmt app. I have relatively new Victron setup on my 34’ PDQ power catamaran… Victron 2000 Watt 12v Multiplus, Cerbo GX with Touch 70 screen, SmartShunt, SmartSolar MPPT, DC battery charger (for the start batteries), and 540 Ah Battle Born batteries as main bank. Will the app be compliant with Apple App store standards?

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Hi Arthur, at this point the app is web based only, we are doing development for android too now and later for ios. But we need some more funding. If you want to test the web version feel free to use the github gist page i posted a few comments up. The web version will be our main app for now.

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Unfortunately, the VM does not start on ‘every’ Linux host (24.04LTS on AMD RYZEN AI7, VBox 7.1.12_Ubuntu r169651).

- Sometimes the process stops with an RCU error:

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- Sometimes you end up in TTY login:

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Are there any suggested solutions?

Thanks in advance,

J.

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When you see tty login, thats the good window. Now all you have to do is find the VM assigned ip address.

Default user is admin1

Password is admin1

After you are logged in type “ip addr” you should be able to see the ip, post a screenshot.

After you get the ip, in a web browser type the ip_addr:5173

For example 192.168.1.10:5173, and you get access

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Thanks for the quick response!

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Even though the IP address is registered in the router!?!

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Thanks for your help!

J.

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Ok this is good. Now from inside the vm run “docker ps -a” let’s check the status of the containers. If they are not up and running we need to run “docker compose up -d”

This is good feedback since on your machine the vm has a strange behaviour. On mine works for some reason. I suspect it might be a vbox config issue