Subject says all: Am I the only one experiencing VRM DESS being down for over 3 hours now, the active windowslot is 13 (quarters) on our system. Is this a coincidence or related to the release of VenusOS v3.70 and a new VRM beta update maybe?

Did you upgrade to 3.70 already, or do you encounter this for the prior version / beta?

[image] Alex Imbrea (Victron Energy): You spotted this correctly Would it not be a good idea for you guys to run a cron job (of sorts) to keep an eye on the VRM scheduler? And use that to automatically publish an acknowledgement when VRM DESS is late? Or better even: a running timestamp of …

[image] dognose: Did you upgrade to 3.70 already, or do you encounter this for the prior version / beta? Both actually, I upgraded midway the VRM outage, before starting this topic.

VRM DESS DOWN for 3+ hours?

Q&A and troubleshooting DESS

aleximbrea (Alex Imbrea (Victron Energy)) 25 February 2026 16:31 3

Hi @UpCycleElectric,

You spotted this correctly. The DESS scheduler was behind for about 4h. It is now up and running again sending updated schedules.

Best regards,
Alex Imbrea

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VRM DESS DOWN for 3+ hours?

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