VRM

Hallo !

From approx 13:30 on the 14th of July I have no data in VRM. The system itself is working fine - but I am frustrated over that I can not follow my system remotely.

Any tips on how to resolve this?

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I have an Easysolar 3 kva with 10 kw lithium ion batteries and 1800 watt of panels.

However, I do get the most important realtime data under the dashboard graph chart, and the CCGX on the Easysolar works as it should.

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Thanks,

Eric

Would you consider improving the GPS location widget on the VRM portal? The GPS tracking is something that is currently not very well promoted/advertised by Victron, but it's one of the most powerful add-on features after all the energy solutions are in place.

Background: I have a RV kitted with Victron gear. A GPSr device is plugged in to VenusOS, and it tracks the location of the RV, and the current location (real time and historical) can been viewed on VRM. I frequently rent out the RV to others and always disclose the GPS tracking, and give them guest VRM access, and encourage them to share that with their friends/family. It's definitely a very useful function and my customers absolutely love it.

Request: A few improvements would be very desirable and hopefully be very useful to others:

* in the widget, display the current coordinates, and link them to an external map for the location - so that the coordinates can be used for things like directions, or to see them on a different map, like OSM, Bing, or even geocaching.com - I personally like geohack - it allows the user to select which service to use them with eg. https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=en&params=-36.818800;175.085231

* display a warning note next to the location details, if data is older than, say 1 hour (eg. "last updated 5 hours ago") - most users don't understand they have to look at the top of the page for this, and without this info they might not comprehend that this location is not current

* on the existing embedded google map (both in-widget, and full-screen), allow switching between satellite/terrain/norma mapsl (a lot of remote locations we've been to in the RV, google maps show just plain blank map, unless fully zoomed out, which then becomes meaningless)

* lastly, give an option for a direct link to the current location / map only - friends and family usually don't care about the rest of the setup - perhaps use a large token in the URL, that can be reset easily in VRM, to bypass the password for this.

Thanks for considering the above feedback.

Hi, I get a connection refused error when trying to connect to https://docs.victronenergy.com/vrmapi/overview.html

Any reason for this? Is the page still valid?

What are the dips on the Solar Power Yield Graph? This is on a clear sunny day with no cloud.

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I'm far away from my installation and the WAN IP seems to have been switched out. The CCGX is still reporting to the VRM Portal and I can access the CCGX Remote Console through VRM Potal, but I need to find out my new WAN IP to access my Node Red configuration. Is this possible without accessing SSH on the CCGX (which, as far as I know, can't do through the VRM Portal).

Hi All,

Just installed a brand-new MultiPlus II 48/5000/70 hardware rev 3. It has 459 firmware. Venus GX has 2.30 firmware

On device lists in both remote console on LAN as well as VRM, the MultiPlus II just shows as a "VE.bus device", without its full name. This is the same as with Venus GX 2.23.

The Product shows as VE.bus device, and the Product ID shows as 2623.

Why does it not show the full name of the MultiPlus, like for my other installation which has a MultiGrid in it ? The MultiGrid shows as MultiGrid 48/3000/35-50.

By the way, I have tried rebooting the Venus GX, as well as doing the "redetect system" thing, but it still stays the same.

Thanks, Steve.

Below is a screenshot of my two installations, one with the MultiGrid showing its name correctly, the other with the MultiPlus II just showing as a "VE.bus device".

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Hi

I recently replaced an 8KVA Quattro for a 15KVA one, as my clients needs had been growing steadily recently. It is a monitored ESS system. Since its installation I am seeing regular overload warnings even though the loads are maximum 7KW. Often showing overloads at under 3000w. It shuts down at least once a day and did it again last night at midnight with a 1500w load. VRM data is giving me no indication of why it is doing this.

Anyone come across similar situation

Hi

I have two installations on my VRM. One CCGX is set up with German language and the other is English. The VRM page shows German language. Is there a way to change to English? Normally apps are configured to look at the language used on the phone?

VRM dashboard has stopped showing DC loads. Only inverter loads are calculated in consumption graph starting around midnight today even though I do have active DC loads that should be visible. This seems to happen to my system every in 4- 6 months and is not fixed until I contact victron support. I am now trying this community post instead of usual email report to get it fixed (I hope that this post will be forwarded to support staff).

My portal Id is 6ceceb872fcf

I wonder why this is happening an whether it is just my system?

@Guy Stewart (Victron Energy Staff)

@Johannes Boonstra (Victron Energy Staff)

Hi everyone ,

I would like to know why is the VE.bus SOC differ to that of system overview ? which one should I used .

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Hi. I have a site with Quattro 48/5000, SmartSolar 250/100, CCGX, BMV 712, 5280W Solar Panels and 615AH Trojan AGM Battery. My issue is when I try to make adjustment to the Quattro using Remote VEConfigure on my VRM portal I get an error while trying to upload. Is there anything I'm not doing right? Please help.

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Early last month I had gotten my site finally working with VRM Portal (once I finally got 24/7 internet there) and I had discovered the economic report functionality. While it doesn't give as much detail as I would like (I would hope for breakdown of used energy vs. max production if grid tied and selling, since production drops when batteries are full), I was eagerly awaiting digging into the reports at the start of this month once I had more data.

I had tried to check it a week or two ago and noticed that I still could not enter or select a date range, only "today". I was guessing that maybe there was an issue with database logs or something that would be temporary, but not today I still cannot select a start date beyond "today" or the automatically filled in date of yesterday. Both clicking the left arrow and trying to click any date except yesterday does not work.

Image of the screen: https://imgur.com/a/LXAuKB8

Browsers tested: Vivaldi 2.5.1525.40 (Stable channel) (32-bit), Firefox 67.0.3 (64-bit)

Hi, my name is Jarus Bosman and I have a simple setup at home with a Multiplus, batteries, PV array and Smartsolar MPPT, and a CCGX (MPPT still to be installed).

I was playing around with the Geofence (yeah I know - Why, you don't have a GPS, right? But I was curious... ) and it triggered a Geofence alarm which now wouldn't go away, even after resetting and disabling the Geofence. How can I get rid of it?

As of yesterday the order of the widgets in the Advanced view in VRM is suddenly reversed. I had the "SOC" graph/widget in the top left (most important for me), and now it is all the way at the bottom, as the last item. And I had "AC Output frequency" all the way at the bottom (least important to me) and this is now in the top left, as the first item. All my other widgets/graphs are in exactly the reversed order.
Did someone swap the sorting order in the back-end or what happened?
I presume this will be fixed asap?

VRM shows volt in color for amp and vice versa on raspberry 2.31 also on the beta’s 2.32-2 and 2.32-3 even after exchanging the ve direct cable with 3 different ones. When using the Bluetooth connection it shown it correctly @Ray_mont

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VRM is useful but I would also like to see the real time energy flows as presented on CCGX

Probably not a huge priority for you guys, but could you please make an apple watch app for the VRM app?

I also remember reading about a new vrm app, is this still in the works?

Hi my VRM app has been running for a couple of weeks, but now has frozen, in the menu of the colour gx I’m getting a message saying #154 dns failure, I’ve rebooted gx, and rebooted router. Any ideas?

Thanks Phil

In the vrm we have battery history which shows 3 interesting items (to me anyway)

Charge cycles

Full Discharges

Automatic Syncs

As per pic

Can someone Please explain where this data comes from & the device producing it & how its calculated.

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Hi all,

Earlier this week, we've released a new version of the Advanced page of the VRM portal. Its now much more suitable to analyse the data of an installation.

Hereby some screenshots to show the new features.

1. The first shot shows the main page. Note the little triangle on the lower right, it allows to drag and resize a chart. You can choose between 1, 2 or three columns wide.
   
   
2. The second shot shows the dragging: you can now drag the charts. Together with the resizing, this makes it possible to very easily organise what you want to see on one page. Super handy when analysing and looking for a specific issue.
   
   
3. Another way better working feature is the date picker. See the third screen shot.
   
   
4. Also, you can now easily go from one page to the other, clicking the arrows left and right. See fourth screenshot.
   
   
5. Lastly, the Selector is much more organised. See fifth screenshot.

So; not a question; this post is just to make sure all of you are aware of these improvements.

Best regards, Matthijs

First screenshot, resizing:

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Second screenshot, dragging:

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Third screenshot, better date picker:

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Fourth screenshot, easily go to next and previous period:

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Fifth screenshot, better selector:

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Hi I’ve got an error #153 when connecting the color control via WiFi to the VRM, I’ve read the manual and searched the internet. I have never had an issue when I’ve connected other installations to the VRM plus it worked via a lan connection in my office when I updated the software and set up the portal ID

Thanks in advance for assistance

Wayne

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Hi !

I installed from a few days a raspberryPI with venus OS to monitor my PV installation (MultiPlus 48/3000/35-16, BMV-700, BlueSolar Charger MPPT 150/60, 15x185wc solar panels).

Everything works well, but i saw in first dashboard that the global consumption graph do not count the multiplus self-consumption.

In this one, we can see for night hours (from 23:00 to 07:00), 5 occurences of 0.02kWh, a total of 100Wh :

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The System - AC Consumption graph confirm this information, showing 11W from 22:35 to 08:35, a total of 110Wh...

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But the System - Battery Power graph show at the same hours, a consuption of 35W, our previous 10W plus 25W multiplus self-consumption (however AES is activated...should be 20W).

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For me, to get a good analyse of consumption, the global graphs in first dashboard should count consumption based on Battery Power consumption (or at least count inverter self-consumption), no ?

Of course, this consideration is when the consumption is hight, and when the sun is hidden for few days... when every Wh is precious !

The global dashboard is the better view to know the ratio production/consumption and export in excel allows to calculate averages (by seasons for exemple), but if the multiplus consumption is not count, it's all wrong... (500Wh per day !)

And what about SOC % ? it is the same ? no counting multiplus consumption ? in my installation, it represents 2.5% (428Ah in 48V)...

Thanks for reading me

P.S: i'm french, sorry for my english ;-)

Hello, I work with a Macbook Air 13" and recently the layout for the widgets on the VRM Site have been changed, it seems that on the Macbook in Safari, the layout from 3 widgets in a row, does not fully fit anymore, besides that, it is a very unclear and non practical layout anymore, widgets cannot be moved anymore, and the setup from the widgets is chaotic, before we could organise the widgets the way we wanted, for example when you have 6 MPPT Chargers, you could organise the widgets per categorie, like all the PV Yields one under each other, all the PV Voltages and Currents under each other and so on, this was very practical and easy to manage and to find eventually system failures. Now its all very unclear, specially on a laptop, if you want to study a widget, you have to separately open it and its a hassle to do and get it back organised. I don't find this an improvement.

Kind regards,

Danny

Hi there,

I have a Phoenix 24/500 ve.direct inverter. I am using it with the venus firmware on a raspberry pi. I also have a SmartSolar 100/20 and a BMV 712.

In the VRM Portal, the statistics for the inverter are incorrect... It correctly shows the voltage operating at 230v, but the current hovers between 0 and -0.4 amps... they never seem to reach into the positive...

On the venus device, the stats also show 230v, 0 amps, 0 watts... occasionally the watts will flick to 25 or 50w, but only very briefly.

I know I am drawing about 150w through it (according to the BMV-712)

I read a post that was around 9 months old, saying that the stats for inverters over ve.direct was still in development. Is this still the case? It's curious that I get the correct voltage, but not the correct current...

I also seem unable to adjust all the settings for the Phoenix on the Venus interface... for example, adjusting the low voltage shutdown. Is this expected?

Many thanks! :-D

Would really like to see the BMV time remaining calculation shift from time left on discharge to time-to-full charge (instead of infinite).

Could be done without a lot of display changes, simply by placing a minus (-) sign next to the number showing -hh:mm left till batteries are full, or perhaps even better have that "ceiling" be user configurable to a certain percent. For example I rarely charge my lithium batteries beyond 90 percent so having that ceiling be set to precent 90 (just like the time remaining floor is user settable) would be double bonus.

We recently installed a GX GSM into our Colour Control. We followed the instructions and it is fully connected to the Colour Control with an Optus sim card the the APN 'yesinternet'. The '3G' symbol along with two bars of service is showing in the top right hand corner of the Colour Control.

If it is fully connected, why is the VRM portal not running the updates? I have it set to run updates every 15 minutes.

I deleted the installation from our portal and tried to add it back in. To add it back in, I had to have an internet connection to the Colour Control for it to detect the VRM portal ID. I turned on my personal hot-spot from my phone and plugged a WiFi USB adapter into the Colour Control. It connected straight away and I then re-registered the installation into our VRM portal. It updated and logged data for the past three days straight away. I then reconnected the Colour Control to the GSM and waited 15 minutes for the portal to update and re-log the data. The portal hasn't run the update and I am now getting 'last update 30 minutes ago'.

Why isn't the GSM logging data if it is fully connected? What are we doing wrong that is causing this?

The application is http://www.wilhelmsk.com

It has been around for a while but has always required extra hardware and software to get data from Victron systems (a SignalK Server).

It now has the ability to display data directly from a Venus device or from VRM.

I'd like get about 5 testers to try it out before I release to the general public.

Requirements:

• Have a Venus GX or CCGX
• Be running the latest release candidate software
• Or your data is available on VRM
• Have an iOS device running iOS version 10.0 or later

If you'd like to help out, please send an email to support@wilhelmsk.com and include your Apple ID email address.

Thanks!

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Hello team,

I have this alarm today and there is internet connection in the premises. Device is connected via wifi. Will get local connection to reboot. Anyone else having connectivity issues with Venus GX connected via wifi on fw ver 2.31?

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Thanks for your inputs.

Could not find in the doc what Geofence is for!

Any tip? Thanks

Hello,

Had our MPPT and some other Victron gear in the VRM for a few weeks now. Very happy.
one obvious things that I seem to be unable to figure out is if the VRM can tell the total about of solar that has been available? Not just what is used, which seems to be named "yield" in the VRM.
Typically what I might want it for is planning ahead with data to add more usage and solar panels.

Am I missing something obvious here? Many thanks.