Setting an alarm only while in a geofence area?

Q&A and troubleshooting
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In my RV, I have a Cerbo GX, MPPT solar charger and a BMV-712. This is parked at my house and plugged into a 50a outlet. The inverter/charger is a Xantrex model for now.

The other night I walked outside and heard a beeping from the RV. Tracked it to the BMV display, showing a low state of charge. My Surge Guard had identified a ground issue, and cut the shore power, so the RV was idling on battery power for about 2 days. I restored power and then started looking at having the Cerbo notify me when SOC drops below 50%. This I have figured out, for both email and push notifications.

My question is, the alarm setup allows you to set a SOC from the BMV as a trigger. What I’d like to do is have this trigger only be active while in a geofenced area (home - where I know it’s plugged in and should never drop SOC unless shore power is interrupted). I don’t see this as a possibility, but maybe I’m just missing it.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Keith-

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The VRM alarm rules are single input, e.g. low SOC or geofence or high temperature etc. and do not include an AND function to combine 2 inputs as one alarm.

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Thanks for the input. So I assume the best I can do is to set up the alarm when I’m home, then delete it when I plan to leave.

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What I do with this type of alarm is keep the alarm but edit the trigger to something that will not occur, so for SOC set to say 10% when in use and 50% when back home.

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