I read some announcements here about Victron BLE protocol being opened up:
https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/187303/victron-bluetooth-advertising-protocol.html
https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/137214/victronconnect-see-readings-immediately-on-the-dev.html
So as I have the following devices in my van:
Victron Smart Orion DC-DC Charger
Victron Smart MPPT Solar
Victron Smart Shunt
... and as there is no support in Venus OS for Victron BLE as yet, still need cables I believe, I decided to fire up my pi 4 and touchscreen and installed:
signalk
influxdb
grafana
Next I installed the plugin for signalk victron ble
There is some great work being done here to read in the values from the victron devices over BLE, no cables needed - nice!!
https://github.com/stefanor/signalk-victron-ble
It is based upon following library which you will need install to be able get the mac addresses and keys you need for the Victron BLE devices.
https://github.com/keshavdv/victron-ble
It is still work in progress and had to fix some issues with my local copy of the code, plus I added some extra fields for Solar Power and Yield, I have not followed any Signalk data tree spec, but the fields are still imported and sent to Grafana via InfluxDB - so all good from my point of view :
Add dcdc converter #1
https://github.com/stefanor/signalk-victron-ble/pull/1
Issue : DcDc Off Reason
https://github.com/keshavdv/victron-ble/issues/20
I am sure these will all be addressed soon, but here is a preview of what my Grafana dashboard looks like in my van. I am super pleased, did I mention no cables required it is all over BLE and the other advantage is it can support Orion DC charges also so I can show charge status and Van Starter Battery voltage.
Steve
