I am using an Ekrano GX with 3x Multiplus 10K inverters in a three phase network.
I connected a battery bank to canbus vecan0 of Ekrano and a battery bank to vecan1 of Ekrano.
Via the victron remote console (gui v1) i can see both battery banks with all details from both battery banks.
In node red I want to read the SOC of each battery bank, but when I look at the Victron Battery Monitor node, I only can see the automatically selected battery bank. The other battery bank is invisible for the Victron battery monitor node.
Does anyone have an idea how I can read both SOC parameters of both battery banks via vecan0 and vecan1?
Victron’s stock firmware does not combine multiple battery banks but there is at least one third party modification to the firmware that will combine multiple battery monitors. The one I know of is:
In nodered create a virtual battery, then create a flow that combines the individual stats and send it to the virtual battery.
No third party software required.
This is what I would prefer without third party software. But I have been looking to get the details from vecan0 and vecan1 via different nodes but haven’t found it yet in node red.
It must be there somewhere (see my remote console gui v1 below), but only the selected battery bank is shwown in battery node or custom input node.
Can you give me an extra hint which node to use and how to find the two victron instance ID’s for the underlaying battery banks. Now I see only one instance ID 512 for the automatically selected battery. If I choose redetect batterys, the other battery bank is found, but it gets the same instance ID.
I already added to virtual battery banks, but I am puzzling how to get the information from both battery banks/vecan buses inside the virtual batteries.
I already got the SOC, Battery voltage, battery current and battery temperature right.
I didn’t manage to get the details like lowest and highest cell voltage and lowest and highest cell temperature etc. Do you know the specific paths or bus ID’s for Ekrano GX.
