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An iPad is as close as I have come to a remote display But Not Sure now if AUTO UPDATE is Compulsory

It may also Still SLEEP even if it can be set to Never Sleep as my Mac does with Power Nap turned OFF.

A Question on your questions pic

How do you get to add/arrange items to the vrm portal as in your win display ? ( i dont have an option

local Lan console is good & could be better if we could remove the controls

I use a raspberry PI with a 7 inch touch screen running chrome in Kisosk mode . Very stable - runs on months at end. With the new refresh button and touch screen even if you open VRM in another broser anybody can get the display back and even start stop generators

@Guy Stewart (Victron Energy Staff)

Raspberry pi 3 + 13 watt power supply - 3o to 40 Euro

The official display and case from RS components ( preferred ) or amazon or ebay - 50-70 Euro

search for keywords " Touchscreen Black Case, Official Raspberry Pi Black Case 7in Capacitive Touch Screen waveshare"

Let me know if you need the actual links

The case can be hanged just using 3 M sticker tape or you can 3M r a strong magnet if you want it on fridge ( i prefer wall near any power socket due to continuous power supply needed)

The installation of raspberry pi is fairly standard with no changes needed except as per official guide to get display working and an autostart script to start chromium in kisok mode with display management disabled

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/display/

or

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD

The chrome will run in kiosk mode by using kiosk option and disable inforbar line

also important is to disable display management

create a file say vrm.sh with following details

#!/bin/bash 
xset s noblank 
xset s off 
xset -dpms

/usr/bin/chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --kiosk "website address or ip of vrm"

and make it Autorun - https://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/run-a-program-on-your-raspberry-pi-at-startup/

A very detailed step by step guide is here but some of the steps may not be necessary for your needs

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-kiosk/

@Anil Ghatikar I like this approach very much. Thank you for sharing.

I think, it would be a good idea for Victron, to have such a device in stock, for remote viewing a Venus GX or CCGX including VRM data graphs. I know many people, that want to have such a thing, including myself.

Hi All

You can use the smartpi case which has a wall bracket kit included, as per link below.

easy to mount etc

Another simple short cut is to press F11 key to activate the kiosk mode for chromium automatically.

all done works with WiFi and Ethernet,

https://smarticase.com/products/smartipi-touch

Guy, even something as cheap as one of the amazon fire tablets would work for all your requests. The botnet thing would require a router with a firewall, even as simple as a NAT for any computer or tablet. Without one you are fairgame to every script kiddy.

You just need to not use the browser to hit any sites. Malware seems to be everywhere. I ran all our eCommerce sites for North America for a huge multinational. The stuff I saw done was pretty unbelievable. After one eye opening hack job we received and after 48 hours straight of incident calls, I setup and started running my personal web browser (banking etc) from a virtual machine that upon reboot brought up a pristine OS build again. Prior to that I had my proverbial head in the sand. The hack was that good that I realized there was actaully no way to keep out a determined hacker from anything connected to the internet.

-Bill

Just because I am curious. Has anyone managed to connect to a Venus Device directly with VNC over LAN?

An add on question that would help with this, can the CCGX VNC be edited to allow more than one connection? I know normal VNC installs can. If they are still using a similar code base it could be set to allow more than one device to connect and display the lan console.

I was looking into something like this a few weeks ago. Though not sure if these would fit into your criteria.

If you are serious about saving as much power as possible, then E-ink display technology is the way to go.

1) Use a raspberry pi along with an E-ink display.

https://www.hackster.io/lukehaas/e-ink-display-for-daily-news-weather-and-more-3dd7b1

2) Use a raspberry pi and use display of a Kindle. There is a lot of good information on this if you search "Kindleberry pi".

3) Not sure if this would work for you, but could also try a laptop or netbook. The following link is for a laptop that uses around 6 watts on low loads, this will run something like you are wanting to do. The screen is 14 inch and has a battery runtime of 15 hours (without WLAN), both could be a bonus. The model is obsolete so it might be cheap enough to be expendable.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Ideapad-120s-14-inch-HD-Laptop-Review.264408.0.html#toc-energy-management

If you want to have your Remote Console on LAN look like this:

copy attached styles.css to /var/www/javascript-vnc-client/styling/styles.css

styles.css.zip

Please be aware, that this is "self made" and untested, if it conflicts with something else. Please report.

...and don't forget to clear browser cache to make it work.

Regards,

Markus

Brilliant stuff. Love the ideas and the collaboration amongst the "cult" members. Wish I had the time to have a crack at this stuff.

As a little update,

I found the quickest way forward was an app called Kiosk for a really old $100 iPad. You program the address in (local IP in this case) and whenever the app is opened, it opens the remote console and shows nothing else (browser bar buttons or cruft). I turned off the auto sleep setting and just switch it on in the morning and off at night.

Works perfectly for me. It has moved it from the kitchen to the stereo next to the weather station.

I use a Samsung older tab-e tablet 9.5 in. display, nice resolution and stays on, cheap too.

H Guy,

It seems that you have a perpetum mobile! How can the positive energy balance into your system be a explained?

Thanks,

Mihai

I followed the description from @Anil Ghatikar above and it works perfect! I bought the original Raspberry Pi LCD display and a DesignSpark case. Both from RS Components.

So after all of this what is the conclusion in plain english??

Is it an old iPad such as ipad2?

my VenusGX lives in the battery room which is 100 metres from the place where the display will be located (on fridge). The 100 m connection will be by EoP.