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Ooops, will look into it. Not sure who is reporting the unit. Could be SignalK, but guess it's coming from WilhelmSK. Should be an easy fix.

Totally agree. Really a big step forward and I am curious to see other interfaces as well.

Not sure if you want to see photos from the PI's. Currently the setup is running in my living room, but will be hooked up into the boat end of April. The electrical values from the Victron Pi are from the demo within Venus, all other values are from real sensors like BME280 for temp, humidity, pressure, two Sonoff smart switches, a couple of 1W sensors and a MCP3008 ADC for the existing tank level sensors.

The Sonoffs needed to be flashed with a different Firmware. But basically all sensors are plug'n play, thanks to Openplotter.

The system is ready to be installed except for the MCP3008, which needs additional programming and probably an ESP32 Wifi so that I don't have to do all the wiring to the existing analog tank level sensors.

I had no pre experience with all this kind of things. Just a bit of Linux from its very early days decades back in time and I have studied electronic technician though never worked in this part of the industry. Therefore I think everyone can set something similar up with a bit of reading.

Here is how it all started and how I get inspired: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/9879/building-a-raspberry-pi-with-venus-os.html?childToView=9986#comment-9986

And here a brief explanation of how this all connects together:

Boat has Seatalk1, SeatalkNG, NMEA0183 and NMEA2000 (two Raymarine MFDs, Radar, Wind, Depth, Speed, Watertemp, Airtemp, Pressure) connected to a Shipmodul 3e-n2k multiplexer. The multiplexer converts to NMEA0183 and sends the data via a router (Teltonika RUT 950) - 4G, Wifi) to the Pi, which runs Openplotter (and with that SignalK Node server and kplex) and some other useful stuff. This Pi has all sensors connected, except the Victron devices. The Victron devices (Multiplus, MPPT, BMV) are hooked up to a 2nd Pi (because it requires a different Linux..), which also connects to the router. 1st Pi reads data also from 2nd Pi and ALL values are then converted into SignalK or NMEA2000/0183, whatever I need to feed the system. That's it. The iPad connects to the 1st Pi through WilhelmSK and magically (well, it needed a bit of thinking and help from the developers) all the different values showing up - in one place.

Yesterday I set up VPN and SignalK cloud. Means I have full access to ship data even when not aboard and also can control devices or switches through mobile. When underway, there is no way to send data to VRM. Instead I have setup influxDB and Grafana as a graphical interface for collected data.

I will make a flow chart in the coming days for a better visual presentation. And detailed photos coming as soon as the system is installed.

@Dgorman

@Guy Stewart (Victron Energy Staff)

Yes, I wondered myself until I realised that there is more than one battery in the Venus demo setup. There is a big number of Venus SK paths. Not easy to find the correct devices ;-) And should filter them through a white list for less bandwidth.

And desperately searching for a way to change fonts for the values just like it is for title and units...

ps. It should be "Absorption". Its coming through SK server.

Is it possible to make wilhelmSK read directly Venus, without need to have any raspberryPI ? I have now wilhelmSK connected to boats N2K through YDWG2, and it is wonderful system. If Venus would be in same ethernet as ipad, i believe it should work. WilhelmSK has already Venus as one connection presets. I am not at all as linux-minded as Stefanie.