New Cerbo-GX device with more CPU power planned? Like Ekrano? No Cerbo "MK3" planned?

As a follow up to this thread, I investigated some time to the problem. For NR on Venus it is not possible to collect a bigger number of measurement values in a file without heavy degrading of perfomance after some hours. Therefore a time series database seems unavoidable. Finally I found, it seems not possible to run influxdb with a Venus system.

More or less accidently I tried to install InfluxDB at my synology rackstation RS816 as this fileserver runs 24/7 anyway and could hold the database on its RAID for backup purposes. Unfortunately InfluxDB is a pure 64 bit application. The RS816 rackstation contains a Marvell Armada CPU what is a 32 bit Cortex A7 while Influx-DB does not support any 32 bit architectures.

Same is for any Cerbo-GX what contains Allwinner sun7i ARM
Same is for any Ekrano-GX what contains Allwinner sun8i ARM

The RS819 rackstation contains a CPU Realtek RTD1296 1,4 GHz what is a 64 bit quad core. This could be a possible machine but I dont have this model.

Another chance is to try my Mikrotik router board RB 5009 what contains a 88F7040 ARM 64 bit CPU but I hesitated and prefered to try a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core Arm Cortex A76 processor @ 2.4GHz what I had in my drawer. After installing a Debian image to the SD card, InfluxDB V2 installation went through without using any Docker.

Would be nice to run InfluxDB or even Grafana on a device like the Ekrano in future. Obviosly this requires a complete new 64 bit Venus version and increases the 24/7 power consumption several Watts.

Cerbo MK3 has now been announced for end of 2023 - with triple the CPU power of the MK2 :wink:

We have summarized all available information in our Victron product announcement blog-post (German, you can use google translate to get it to EN): Victron Energy Produktneuheiten 2026 - OFFGRIDSHOP

…alternatively the new Nucleo GX could be an option if you don’t need an external screen? It has the same CPU as the Ekrano, less interfaces though.

2023? :grin:

Oh, good point – no idea how I ended up on this post :rofl:

Backwards compatible to 2023 AD.

The new cerbo will have a price tag to match, memory and processor pricing has hit the roof.