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Mine is renamed to motor as it's monitoring the power of an electric motor.

Not quite sure where the problem is.

When you configure the shunt as a meter, the following options are available as well as solar charger.

You can also rename the shunt... The name you give it shows up in VRM advanced.

Thank you Kevin for sharing your insights. I am not a developer, however it seems to me that it should be fairly easy to integrate this feature better. It helps integrate 3rd party products which sometimes need to complement the victron ecosystem and as this feature has been reported across discussions to be in development since 2022, i am simply curious whether there is something on the timeline.

The good thing is though, my generator is effectively charging my battery bank with working SOC gauge and all there is to it is the fact that it VRM shows it as a solar charger. This does not need to become a beauty contest, however, as certain types of smartshunt config options are technically the same as a solar charger but just need a different label - such as a generator or DC DC charger, i struggle to see how this can still be in development 2 years later.

If anyone close to the victron dev team can chime in, this would make the appearance of VRM even more nice to look at. Maybe a stereotype selector within gx or simply some icons for each option that is selectabke in the smartshunt config, that would be brilliant. The GX already sees the type of meter which is selected, i can spot that on the console...

I would like to nudge this topic - what is the use of so many different values for DC meter type if only "PV Charger" is leading to a "Charging" state of the SOC tile in VRM?

This option has been discussed for more than 2 years now and everybody is well aware that there is no technical problem - but does really nobody care that the VRM view shows "PV Charger" when there are so many alternatives?