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GPS Geofence: Alarm cleared when venus hasn't moved?

I finally got around to getting up to the roof of my van to install my LTE and GPS antennas. Now I have my Venus Pi online all the time which is great, but since yesterday I have gotten 4 emails.

Geofence alarm cleared for The Van

The Van is within the geofence again.

This message was sent by the VRM Portal https://vrm.victronenergy.com

I never got an outside the geofence alarm email plus the van hasn't moved. The geofence is around 2500 feet so I think it's well within any fluctuation in GPS.

Anyone else having the same problem? I added the GPS as a fun "lets track our trips" but also liked the idea of the geo fence for an extra layer of security. I did read on another post (Here: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/19122/vrm-geofence-alarm-too-early-before-gps-fix.html) that this was happening on boot up, but to my knowledge I don't think my Venus has rebooted. Is there any way to view uptime on the venus? Or is there an alarm I could enable to tell me when the venus rebooted?

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wkirby answered ·

You can set an Alarm rule on VRM to alert you of a reboot.
New Alarm Rule -> Device:Venus Device -> Parameter:Boot Type -> Set "Cold Boot or Reboot" to ON -> Notify After:x seconds.

You'd have SSH in to the device and use the "uptime" command to get an actual uptime.

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Thanks. I have set the alert and I’ll take a look. I’ll also get a laptop to check the uptime.

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