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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.
Hi Gary, this screen has exactly those functions:
Enable it in Settings -> Display & language:
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.
Hi @Leverg, in above page you can do exactly that. Those three gray boxes at the bottom are "buttons".
Oh, that`s nice, gonna get one Certbo touch today :) Yesterday bought a multiplus :) Keep going to Bodegraven :)
Hahaha, well best regards to our great distributor over there!
I included Inverter Only in the cycle in my GuiMods (and GuiMods2) enhancements to the Mobile Overview. I also provided the current mode in the black "switch" area on the inverter tile on the flow overview screen and touching that brings up a menu to select the mode you want as you described. Have a look:
https://github.com/kwindrem/GuiMods2
I use inverter only a bit especially when testing my system, for example to see how my RV will get by on just solar. Off and On are the most important modes in real life. I can see leaving a system in Charger Only when unattended so that a grid failure doesn't drain the batteries. Inverter Only doesn't really have any practical use outside of system testing which may be why it was left off the cycle. Just a guess.
Also, I agree that Inverter Only is not something most folks would use very often, so your guess is probably spot on. Like you, I use it for testing, but I also sometimes want to make sure I'm using solar to charge/power my RV instead of the host I'm plugged into. Why should I use their power when I can grab some for free from the sun? :-)
GuiMods and SetupHelper are installed on the GX device (Cerbo, etc.)
A recent addition to SetupHelper provides a "blind install" of it an GuiMods2 so all you need to do is put a file on a USB stick, place it in the GX device and reboot twice. See the SetupHelper ReadMe for details
https://github.com/kwindrem/SetupHelper
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.
(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?
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.
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
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.
