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Hello all,
Experienced a depleted battery yesterday due to a blown fuse and realize that I need to be better prepared and receiving alarm notifications is what I need.
I have a 500A Smart Shunt, it's all working fine...
What next is needed to get either push, email or... when my shunt triggers an alarm?
Thanks, Rick
Have a look on the Victron communication centre page.
https://www.victronenergy.com/communication-centres
Many people here have a Cerbo GX device, but this is expensive for a single battery monitor and needs to be connected to a router, Vicyron can provide an LTE add on. It is good for larger systems.
A cheaper device is the GlobalLink 520 but it is still a lot for a single battery monitor.
One device that may be of interest in the VE.Direct LoRaWAN - module. I have no experience with this and it will depend on the LoRaWAN coverage where you are.
All these send data to VRM, the Victron cloud service which is free, can be logged onto anywhere you can get the internet to monitor your device and you can set up alarm notifications by email. If you add the VRM.app to your phone then you get alerts on your phone also.
Thanks @pwfarnell good info here
WOW, what a pain, another device that costs money and needs it's own signal to only report 1x/hour when all Victron has to do is add notifications to the Mobile app.
Thanks, Rick
Yes, you can set alarms on the shunt for low voltage and low SOC but they only show when the app is open and do not provide notifications. For that the Bluetooth connection would need to be permanently running with the app live in the background. And then there f it happened while you were not in Bluetooth range you would still not get alerted.
