Hi. I am dealing with a lot of different batteries that need regular charging. No solar or anything. I am using several different victron chargers for this purpose that get swapped between batteries, all of which support VE.smart. Monitoring all these chargers works great when I am in Bluetooth range. However, I would like to be able to monitor them remotely (out of Bluetooth range in same location, or even from an entirely different location) so I’ll know when a battery has finished charging. Is there a way to feed the VE.smart data into VRM? If not VRM, are there other (DIY perhaps) existing solutions that could achieve the same result? E.g. a raspberry pi that connects to the chargers via Bluetooth, and can serve up a webpage with current status or something of that nature?
Thanks!
guystewart
(Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager))
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Possibly the Victron Global Link
Not all products support the Bluetooth interface so make sure you read the documentation carefully to be sure that your products are compatible-
Thanks. And yes, I looked into that one. But it doesn’t seem my battery chargers are supported? Fwiw, I have several Blue Smart IP22, IP65 and IP67 chargers, in both 12V and 24V versions.
Lots of interesting stuff there. Haven’t had a chance to look into all of it yet, but not sure that there’s anything that does what I’m looking for? Will keep looking though.
If anyone has specific suggestions, let me know!? Thx!
guystewart
(Guy Stewart (Victron Community Manager))
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