# Virtual EM with type EV charger reports total kWh in VRM upon Venus upgrade **URL:** \ **Category:** Node-RED\ **Tags:** beta-nodered, venus, virtual\_device, energy\_meter, vrm\ **Created:** [8 May 2026 12:49 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734 "2026-05-08T12:49:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kudos50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kudos50](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/kudos50)\ **Post date:** [8 May 2026 12:49 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/1 "2026-05-08T12:49:39Z")
Using a Virtual Device with EV charger role. The physical device behind it had 2000+ kWh total energy when I started using it (it’s an MID meter). When I first commissioned the Virtual EM, VRM showed a 1h EV charger consumption of the 2000+ total energy. When I upgraded to the latest beta last night it did the same thing again. Now in VRM, I have 2 days in a little over a month both showing an enormous spike in EV charging consumption. ---
**Author:** ![dfaber](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/user_avatar/community.victronenergy.com/dfaber/32/13_2.png) [@dfaber](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/dfaber)\ **Post date:** [8 May 2026 13:22 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/2 "2026-05-08T13:22:09Z")
Please make sure to update to the latest beta of Venus, which includes node-red-contrib-victron 1.7.11. That should resolve this (because of [this](https://github.com/victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron/commit/fc2d830b3ab533ff75059a9f1dc6e788f41ad3f5) patch). ---
**Author:** ![kudos50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kudos50](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/kudos50)\ **Post date:** [8 May 2026 13:25 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/3 "2026-05-08T13:25:33Z")
The upgrade mentioned in my post was to the latest beta 😉 ---
**Author:** ![remco](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/user_avatar/community.victronenergy.com/remco/32/4744_2.png) [@remco](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/remco)\ **Post date:** [12 May 2026 19:45 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/4 "2026-05-12T19:45:37Z")
Yes, I have the very same problem. Created a virtual device with Heat Pump role on version 3.80~21 and initially it plotted the total used kWh instead of the delta between two measurements. This leads to a huge spike. It happened again today after upgrading to 3.80~22. ![Screenshot 2026-05-12 at 21.46.19](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/original/3X/c/7/c7b8261bda00ed1949c0e1f86c5c97fd3093ffec.png) ---
**Author:** ![A-P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@A-P](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/A-P)\ **Post date:** [12 May 2026 19:50 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/5 "2026-05-12T19:50:24Z")
> [@remco](#): > > Created a virtual device with Heat Pump role on version 3.80~21 and initially it plotted the total used kWh instead of the delta between two measurements. This leads to a huge spike. It happened again today after upgrading to 3.80~22. Did you set the following to “no”? I’ve found that if you leave it as “yes”, then the system initializes the virtual meter with a zero kWh value. When the first “real” reading comes in, you get a spike (e.g., after every Cerbo reboot) By setting it to “no”, I believe it initializes the virtual meter with no kWh value. So when the first “real” reading comes in, that’s the starting point. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/original/3X/6/2/62cd7471c62714561b0f49ce877eb5f1c6155977.png) ---
**Author:** ![kudos50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kudos50](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/kudos50)\ **Post date:** [12 May 2026 20:19 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/6 "2026-05-12T20:19:11Z")
I changed the setting after the first comment from Dirk-Jan just to be safe 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![remco](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/user_avatar/community.victronenergy.com/remco/32/4744_2.png) [@remco](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/remco)\ **Post date:** [13 May 2026 07:11 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/7 "2026-05-13T07:11:57Z")
Wow, that makes a lot of sense. I just changed the setting, that must be it. Thanks, that’s very helpful. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/victron/original/1X/21a9a7b5db7c6339715f993568736a7053199995.png) [@system](https://community.victronenergy.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [27 May 2026 07:12 UTC](https://community.victronenergy.com/t/virtual-em-with-type-ev-charger-reports-total-kwh-in-vrm-upon-venus-upgrade/57734/8 "2026-05-27T07:12:42Z")
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