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Smart shunt as DC-meter for wind generator: Shown in VRM-dashboard and remote console?

Hi! I have a wind generator in my crusing sailboat setup (12V silentwind) and would like to see the amps going into the system by using a smart shunt connected to my raspi running VictronOS.

Question: I have seen many postings in this forum showing that this additional shunt will not show up in the VRM dashboard (and remote console). Some postings say that the problem occurs when there is already all the space in the dashboard used for other devices. Postings from 2021 are saying that the programers woule be aware of that and would already be working on the solution. Therefore: Is this solved meanwhile and showing up now or not?

My full system overview please see attached. Thanks for assistance!

ARGO-schematic-energy-system-overview.pdf


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nesswill avatar image nesswill commented ·

To make my wind turbine appear in VRM in the Victron Connect app rather than select the Wind Turbine option a selected "Solar Charger", see below...

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Then in VRM you see this below (You can rename it to what ever you like)

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in the remote console the charge from the Wind Turbine is added to the charge coming from the solar panels.

Hope this makes sense, this works for me (for now).

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Dosheimer answered ·

so there still seems to be no way so far to get the wind tubine be shown separately for it´s own within the VRM dashboard (and remote console) if I understand correctly.

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nesswill avatar image nesswill commented ·
Correct.
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Jeffrey Wheeler answered ·

If you use GUI Mods will this open up a space to do this? I am about to install the same

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mauri answered ·

Still no reasonable way to configure Smart Shunt as wind generator?

I tried to configure it as wind generator, but it doesn't show up anywhere, not even possible to add in VRM advanced view.

When configured as solar, shows up in solar chargers group:

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Are there anything coming to make dc energy neter option of Smar Shunt more useful?


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kevgermany avatar image kevgermany ♦♦ commented ·

What do you see when you connect to the smart shunt with the Victron Connect app?

How is the smart shunt connected to your GX? If it's smart networking/Bluetooth, is anything connected with cables like VE.Direct, VE.Can etc.?

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mauri avatar image mauri kevgermany ♦♦ commented ·

Yes, Smart Shunt is visible in Victron Connect app.

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Shows as "PV Charger" in VRM as well, of course PV voltage and current not available as shunt only measures values for battery.

Shunt is connected to Cerbo by VE.Direct to USB cable.

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ciprian-popa avatar image ciprian-popa mauri commented ·

Mauri are you sure that we cannot see the PV voltage and current from the wind turbine's smartshunt? I saw that in Dashboard Sheet in VRM we can't see neither one, but if we go in Advanced Sheet in VRM and select a widget diagram for turbine i saw those 3 parameters: Current 0.2A, Pv Power 5W, Voltage 27.7. So if we do a simple calculation 5/0.2 = 25V. I think that it's enough, so in Advanced Sheet if you are interesting about database you can download .xlsx file. Sorry that i cannot attached a screenshot i had an error when i uploaded.

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mattyroo answered ·

From one of my customers VRM:

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