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I'm trying to make a local connection to my Cerbo GX. It works fine with Bluetooth but I want to make that connection to my Win10 laptop with ethernet. I've tried resetting the network, rebooting both laptop and Cerbo to no avail. Does anyone have any thoughts?
If you are hooking your laptop directly to the Cerbo then you will need to create a local network over ethernet. You will need to manually set the IP address in the Cerbo like 192.168.2.1 and set the IP address on your laptop to 192.168.2.0 then they will talk. Wifi is easier because the router will use DHCP but if you want to direct link then do what I said above.
There is a chance it might just work plugging it in via a protocol called Link-Local. The GX device supports this, but your laptop may or may not.
It's easy to test though, you can get the details in this section of the manual - https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Venus_GX/en/accessing-the-gx-device.html#UUID-175c12a7-0108-018c-11d2-b135c7add3c7
Okay...between Grahamwood's answer and Guy Stewart's answer I was finally able to connect to the Cerbo with my laptop thru the ethernet connection. However, all I can access is the Remote Console which doesn't give me the wonderful array of historical data that I get with VRM. My ultimate goal is to be able to get access to this data. Any comments or thoughts about that??
What you could also try is using ICS in Win10 (Google how to do it). This will allocate an IP to Cerbo of '192.168.137.xxx'. Useful if you have no router and only using a wifi hotspot for the Win device. The Cerbo can then access the internet too.
The xxx can change on a Win reboot (and fail connecting), but if you have Cerbo set to 'Automatic' IP Configuration when you set it up, then change it to 'Manual' once connected, it will retain the same address. (don't ask me why this works, dunno).
