Tried different options to visualize signal-k data on cerbo-gx. First node-red activated in is large, but then could not add pattle with signal-k data. Then I installed the node-red plugin in signal-k and installed the pattle “victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron” but then get the error message “dbus connection closed”. I have tried to find information to solve this but am stuck. Probably just missing a small detail, but need tips to move forward.
I’m finding the same issue with 3.62 on two Cerbo GXs on my boat: one a Mk 2 and the other my spare unit. Testing with the spare in a “clean” installation (nothing else connected to the Cerbo) I still see the same problem.
When I create a Virtual Device I see “DBus connection closed” after deploying it. The Virtual Device does not show on the Custom Control node. On my system, this is with node-red running from within SignalK, so this may not be the appropriate place to raise this issue.
A fix for this provided by Scott Bender (in a conversation on Github):
In node-red, go to Settings > Environment. Then add the following:
PERSISTED_STATE_LOCATION in the first box and
/data/conf/signalk/red/.victron in the second.
I am having the same issue; JeremyB - I tried your fix but it didn’t do anything. other ideas? Do you have a link to the github discussion?
Here’s the link to the discussion:
This didn’t entirely solve the problem, though. From examining the SignalK log there was a directory that needed to be write enabled. Sorry, don’t remember which immediately, but it should be in the log.
I believe this will all be fixed in a future release since Scott is aware of the issue.