Show car SoC - CAN BUS sniffing

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I’ll start by saying that I know that it’s not possible to read the SoC directly from the car during AC charging. I solved this using a CAN gateway and sniffing the right messages. So I have the correct and current SoC from the car during charging in node red.

Question:

Would it be possible to display this in a reasonable way directly on the remote console overview? Ideally right in the EVCS rectangle. That would be great :slight_smile:

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You can create virtual EVCS and virtual EVS in Node-Red. They are separate Panels in VRM.
Example: VRM Portal - Victron Energy

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If you have an ODB dongle with API I am sure you can use the data in Node-Red somehow.

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I also thought of creating a car in node red and displaying it via VRM. However, that doesn’t solve my original intention. I have a tablet with a remote console in my living room and generally speaking I like how it works. The solution to completely escape from the beautiful gui-v2 and create my own visualization completely is the way to go. But I don’t want to do it. Anyway, thanks!

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Do you use the “Brief-Page”? If so, Virtual Water-Tanks are quite handy :stuck_out_tongue:

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(You could also use a virtual Battery for that to get a battery icon, but then you should make sure, that you manually select the actual BMS throughout the system settings)

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This solution is closer to what I’m looking for. It’s still not quite there :slight_smile: Thanks.