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I am waiting for better weather to install my solar charger etc to my campervan so I was looking at the demo mode of the victron app on my phone.
I have a smart solar 100/30 and phoenix ip43 12/30 and in demo mode there are warnings in the low temperature shut off (because I have a lifepo4 battery). Am I reading this right that the battery sense is basically pointless without a BMV?
Is this to force people to buy the BMV for ... reasons?
"for example by a BMV"
You can also use another device.
https://www.victronenergy.com/live/temperature_sensors
Hi @Dwiea,
There are lots of good reasons to have a BMV in your system (most importantly for a State of Charge reading), but cold temperature monitoring is possible with the Smart Battery Sense and no BMV.
The Smart Battery Sense, and a SmartSolar MPPT are able to create the VE.Smart network that is described there without requiring a BMV. A BMV-712 is also able to do this without a Smart Battery Sense. They are both able, and do not require each other.
There is a short introduction video and more information about the VE.Smart network and what is required here - https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/VE.Smart_Networking/en/introduction.html
Then specific info about the Smart Battery Sense is here:
https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Smart_Battery_Sense/en/introduction.html
