Great! Any chances for an ARM (Raspberry) version?

Nice work!
I have quickly spun up a Ubuntu 18.04 VM to test this, it works fine so far.
No Bluetooth on a remote VM of course, I will try this another time, but it can see my Venus device if I change VM to the same subnet.

Can we get some macOS love?

Great!
The software works on openSUSE Tumbleweed.
But i had to open konsole for the pincodes.
(bluetoothctl command line tool, type "default-agent" ........)

Thx

@mvader (Victron Energy Staff) I've just tested this on Slackware 14.2 and get the following error:

bash-4.3$ ./VictronConnect-linux-x86_64-v5.19.AppImage 
/tmp/.mount_VictrokUZHZe/AppRun: line 23: [: argument expected
Aborted

I've fixed errors like this before... It's often due to something like this in the script:

[ $1 = ""]

which should really be

[ $1 == "" ]

Hope that's helpful... !

No packages such as RPM for Fedora/RHEL?
Appimage it is...

I want to add one point of clarification that may help users running "Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon" (Cinnamon 4.4.8 / kernel 5.3.0-28-generic).

I added the "dialup" group, as recommended, but it didn't work for me - I couldn't see my MPPT controllers (even though I could see my CCGX & BVM-712). Instead I used the, already existing, "dialout" and everything started to work just fine. Keep in mind that you'll have to logout and log back in for the change to take effect.

Thanks Victron for showing some Linux love - Keep it comin'! ;-)

I have tried this on 20.04 LTS. No problems as far as I can tell.

Thanks @mvader for making the effort with Linux version. Much appreciated.

We are trying this with MPPT 100/20 on Kubuntu 18.04, and not successfully connecting. It does connect to an iPhone.

bluetoothd -v
              5.48                            

bluetoothctl can see the device, and it's not paired...

# bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller 00:14:00:C5:8B:79 hostname [default]
[NEW] Device EA:C0:8C:9F:3D:FD SmartSolar HQ193029VTF
default-agent
Default agent request successful
[bluetooth]# info EA:C0:8C:9F:3D:FD
Device EA:C0:8C:9F:3D:FD (random)        
Name: SmartSolar HQ193029VTF        
Alias: SmartSolar HQ193029VTF        
Paired: no        
Trusted: yes        
Blocked: no        
Connected: no        
LegacyPairing: no        
ManufacturerData Key: 0x02e1        
ManufacturerData Value:  10 02 5f a0                                      .._.  

VictronConnect gui app can see the device, but double clicking on it times out after 20 seconds.

bluetoothctl shows...

Discovering: yes
Discovering: no
Discovering: yes
Discovering: no
RSSI -81dBm

But never shows a pin code prompt.

Wireshark on interface bluetooth0 shows

GATT Primary Service Declaration exchange for profile and handles, but nothing else. We're not sure tcpdump or wireshark are capturing all the packets on bluetooth0, even though promiscuous mode is selected.

Not sure how we can debug this further. Any pointers appreciated.

Very cool. I just installed it and got it running in a virtualbox ubuntu VM with a windows host. Good alternative to windows bluetooth. Not too many hoops either.

Appears to work perfectly on Fedora 32.

Hi, thanks for your hard work, we can't dl anything, Dropbox says "

"Error (404)

Is there any chance to have this appimage somewhere ?

not working for me on mint 17.3 cinnamon 32 bit computer says invalid encoding

Victron connect works well on manjaro ( arch ) linux with blue solar and smartsolar.
The local color control doesn't appear every time.
Thanks a lot for the work

Thank you for your instructions! I succeeded today to connect to my MPPT's:

(ubuntu 21.04/64-Bit/ gnome:3.38.5); I am very happy about the linux-version of the the VictronConnect app because I do not have a Windows-PC since some years anymore

https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/43667/victronconnect-for-linux-download-instructions.html

Not working under Linux Mint 20.1. Tried it on 2 systems:

System 1) Appimage starts, GUI shows up but instantly freezes. Has to be killed -9

System 2) Appimage starts, Gui shows up and hints can be clicked away. Victron device does show up but as soon as it is selected, core dumps.

Booted to Ubuntu 18.04.5, there everything works. Seems like this is built for older Kernels/Systems only.

Hey guys,

I have downloaded the .AppImage file and attempted to set the execute bit but I am getting and error "chmod: cannot access 'VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.47.AppImage': No such file or directory".

I have attempted this using sudo aswel. I have also tried adding the file directory before the file name (not in screenshot). Anyone know what this could be?

Cheers!Screenshot from 2021-09-18 14-28-59.png

I am using an old ThinkPad with the Latest Mint and sadly the laptop doesn't see the solar controller (iPad and Android work perfectly). I have the app installed but can't login either - jumps to the website to authenticate me..but the app never does.

Any help would be appreciated.

I have Victron Connect running on Ubuntu 18 at a couple of remote sites. One tries to talk via bluetooth to a smart battery protect (still troubleshooting this one as it is so remote) and another to a smart shunt via VE Direct to USB cable (absolutely seamless thank you!).

It would be great if there was something in the software to download some history, the graph from the smart shunt can only provide a couple of hours

Hi, there is a version to install on a Raspberry pi4 with S.O. Rasbian OS? thank you

I tried to use the on Arch (Endeavour OS) but it showed me "No devices found". To get it working, I had to add the current user to the uucp group using the following command:

sudo usermod -a -G uucp $USER

And then restart my computer.

Hi thank you for Linux support! Can i use the victronconnect Linux appto configure a Multiplus esp. AC-input relay?

Im working on Linux and dont have any Windows devices

I downloaded and ran the VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage, it created the launch file. However nothing happens once I try to run the program either from the menu/launcher, nor from the terminal. No errors displayed, simply nothing.

Only the bellow output only if I prepend the command with sh -e

kivanov@lab:~/devel/VictronConnect
$ ./VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage
kivanov@lab:~/devel/VictronConnect
$ sh -e VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage
VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: 1: VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: �: not found
VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: 2: VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: }�P7pys�H��_f��h: not found
VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: 1: VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: �b�@@: not found
VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: 1: VictronConnect-x86_64-v5.61.AppImage: ELFAI: not found

Any ideas?

Launches ok on Ubuntu 22.04. I want to access a remote device, so try to sign in. The app takes me to the appropriate page, I click authorise and the browser tells me that there is no app that can handle the returned string/file and nothing further happens: I am still not signed in.

I have tried to set the VictronConnect app as the appropriate helper app within the browser (Firefox), but no change, I have also tried "RunApp" as the helper - still no change. I have tried using Chrome and Edge too, but with similar results.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the investment to offer a Linux variant. Pro tip if you experience issues like AppImage does not start: in a terminal type cat /tmp/VictronConnect.log – quite handy Victron.Connect app writes this file.

Which brings me to my question:

WARN  2022-12-07T20:12:01.572 qrc:/qml/main.qml:150 Type DeviceList unavailable
qrc:/qml/DeviceList.qml:229 Type DevicesListView unavailable
qrc:/qml/DevicesListView.qml:23 Type DeviceDelegate unavailable
qrc:/qml/DeviceDelegate.qml:296 Type DialogPINCodeReset unavailable
qrc:/qml/DialogPINCodeReset.qml:182 Type DialogPINCodeChanged unavailable
qrc:/qml/DialogPINCodeChanged.qml:89 Type PopupVideo unavailable
qrc:/qml/PopupVideo.qml:2 plugin cannot be loaded for module "QtMultimedia": Cannot load library /tmp/.mount_VictrotOTRRJ/qml/QtMultimedia/libdeclarative_multimedia.so: (libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0: Kann die Shared-Object-Datei nicht öffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)

Why is that necessary? I don't want to play videos and the target system does not offer pulseaudio. Is it possible to add an option to disable this?

It'd be absolutely sufficient for my requirements to have a pure CLI variant to export the current data. I only use the USB dongle. Thus --list-devices printing out some IDs/ names and --export <device-id> would be absolutely sufficient.

Found it myself (via https://www.victronenergy.com/live/open_source:start). At least https://github.com/ullman/velog (written in C) as well as https://github.com/foxharp/ve.direct (Bash) work.

hi,

trying the appimage on ubuntu 23.03 ... installation went smooth and it sees my IP65 charger in device list => when trying to connect the connection process shows three times from 1% to 80% terminating in a message dialog saying that it is unable to connect ... with some hints like moving closer to product or remove existing bluetooth pairing from smartphone

i already tried that and also did a reset on PIN code with no success....

looks like i am pretty close ... any hints ?

cheerz from vienna

found the solution ... it is explained here

https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/190698/connect-app-not-asking-for-bluetooth-pin-when-atte.html

works now:-)

Hi,

I just downloaded the appimage v5.95 and I am using Pop OS 22.04 LTS on a thinkpad T14

The appimage starts fine but I can not see any devices. Is there anything else I need to do? it works on windows and I believe I also had it working on Manjaro Linux a while ago. I have a vague memory I had to do some extra step for it to work but I can not remember what.

I also added the user to bluetooth and dialout groups, no change

Ich habe Ubuntu installiert, das Appimage startet nicht - keine Version - auch die Beta nicht. ZB Balena etcher schon . Demnach kann es keine fuse sein. Bitte prüfen Sie das Bild auf Funktionalität.

Version 22.04 Ubuntu alle updates durchgeführt

I finally got it working, i.e. Victron Connect opens and I can access everything through bluetooth. Now, i am trying the networlkcable and when i plug it in, my computer stays on Requesting an ethernet address and doesn't connect... should it auto connect, or do i have to do something else first?