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Gary Pacey asked

Multi Control from Cerbo Touch 50 Home Page

The most common operation on a mobile system is to control the multi - Off, On, Charge Only and Inverter Only. With a Cerbo Touch 50, it requires finding the multi and then into the switch section.

It would be great if the Multi switch control functions were available as a popup on the home screen. Simply touch the Multi icon and control the state by a popup selection.

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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

Hi Gary, this screen has exactly those functions:

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Enable it in Settings -> Display & language:


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leverg avatar image leverg commented ·

I think Gary means you can turn the Multiplus on and of or in charge mode from the home screen ?

Instead of going though the menu, choose multiplus and then enable charging, both or off.


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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ leverg commented ·

Hi @Leverg, in above page you can do exactly that. Those three gray boxes at the bottom are "buttons".

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leverg avatar image leverg mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented ·

Oh, that`s nice, gonna get one Certbo touch today :) Yesterday bought a multiplus :) Keep going to Bodegraven :)


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Mark avatar image Mark commented ·

The pump switch,doesn’t seem to work in manual mode!

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laurenceh avatar image laurenceh commented ·

The Control of my multi switch does not seem to work on my system from any screen. I can see this but can’t change the state.

1619850152801.jpeg(Currently I left the multi switched off because I’d did not have remote control)

Do I need to configure anything in the multi to enable remote control?

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ laurenceh commented ·

Hi Laurenceh in some systems you can’t switch the multi on and off, for example if you have a Digital Multi Control panel installed, or if you have a VE.Bus BMS.

See Cerbo manual for the exact details.

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laurenceh avatar image laurenceh mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented ·

Thanks Matthijs, neither of these apply I have a multi compact 12/2000/80-30 connected by an mk3/USB to my raspberry pi Venus OS. I don’t feel to bad about not purchasing a Cerbo or CCGX given what I have spent on the Victron multi, bmv and MPPT.
Anyway as the Multi was installed by a Victron dealer but I then added the Venus OS bits I wondered if I needed to set dip switched inside the multi compact to enable remote switch control ( as appears to be necessary for the Digital multi control.)

Laurence

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Kevin Windrem answered ·

I considered adding inverter control to the "flow overview" (aka home screen). I had also considered setting AC input current limit as well. In the end, I decided a tap on the AC input tile to set current limit and a tap on the inverter to set it's mode would conflict with a swipe to change overview screens. The "tile overview" has a similar behavior in that a swipe on the bottom of the screen scrolls to a new set of tiles while a swipe on the top changes overviews so I may be overreacting.

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