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Nice installation instructions. Thank you for it. I would be interested in similar installation videos: 1. Using the ET112 meter to display the AC load in the VRM portal when using another DC/AC inverter, not from Victron. 2. Monitoring multiple AC loads and tracking them together on the VRM portal in one online graph using some of the AC meters integrated and programmed into the Victron system.
Hi Tobi, excellent guide! I got my own Venus.OS working on rpi4. In order to avoid multiple reboots after unsuccessful pairing you must always "forget this device" from your ble menu on your smart phone.
Thanks for this - worked through it and all up and working. Wonderful! I was using an Elecrow HDMI display and had exactly the same issue where it rebooted the first time round without asking if I wanted to calibrate the display, etc. I'm going to run it without the display for now, though, as it's going to be next to the battery box under the bed of our narrowboat. I added KWINDREM's ShutdownMonitor, too, as from bitter experience I'm not keen on just pulling the plug on Raspberry Pi
Thanks Tobi, I'm a real newbi with all this stuff. This was easy to follow. For the others that have purchased the Rpi Touchscreen it sets up really easily
Great video. I was having trouble adding my display but this video with commands did the trick. I’m not much of a rpi user and was having trouble installing display setup from the screen. Other videos just said do it but didn’t really show how. Yours did. Some of us are not real computer literate. Your video was my solution. Thanks
Hey Tobi, I followed your stuff last year but I had all kinds of issues like freezing, screen problems (third party touch screen) and just unresponsive. I was so overwhelmed and frustrated I gave up and nearly threw it all out. This video probably posted a couple months after. I'm hoping to revisit this again this weekend and maybe jusg maybe get it working. All I want is to be able to monitor my camper battery remotely. (it's stored at my parent's, they have wifi to connect this to) God I hope this works, thank you for all you do! You're a pleasure to watch and go at a great pace.
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi everything went great until it didn't. Same issues I was having last time, though the install and everything was much better this time. It is a lot more responsive. Unfortunately it REFUSES to connect to wifi. It keeps dropping available networks, asks for password, tries, fails, over and over. I have tried other power supplies, cables, setting the time zone via logging in from pc with it hardwired into my network. Wifi just will not take and I am super frustrated, disappointed and ready to hang it up once again.
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi I can set the password a million times. Remote in via pc, in Victron app over Bluetooth, but it never connects. Have turned off all blocks in router, manually set date and time, tried my phone Hotspot instead, it won't stay connected, or rather connect at all. Always fails. I've put a post in the pi forums but I fear they'll tell me it's just a venusos problem and can't/won't help. I have tried different power bricks, all capable of more than the pi can pull. Amperage draw never goes over half an amp (2.5w). I'm so let down and I can't return the pi a year later, and I'm not buying another one just to rule out a bad unit. Everything you showed went great until they point and it's just impossible to get wifi connected. Without that, it won't do what I need. I wanted to mount this in my camper to monitor my system parked elsewhere and use the vrm portal. All useless without the wifi work 😔
@@Dougy_Fresh I'm sorry to hear this :/ My best guess would also be maybe the Pi does have issues. Is this the same problem you had previously with the first video? I guess you have a display connected so all manual connecting was tested as well.. I feel like all you did was enough testing and should have worked already :/
This was great! A great short tutorial on how to make this happen. Since the EasySolar-II GX doens't allow for a full display and control via a touch display. I'll have to build something like this, to be able to locally control it (without my phones VRM-app) and have a continuous easy view on all the charging etc. Also easier if someone else need to see if there is enough left in the batteries etc. Thanks!
this is a great video. i already have a cerbo gx, in the box waiting to be installed, and i stumbled upon venus os and raspberry pi. this video definetly makes things look simple and i was ready to return my cerbo and go this route. until i priced out all the cables i need. i need 3x ve.direct and 1 ve.bus. the usb versions are considerablly more. $152 for all 4. So $152 + $115 (R pi 4, case, micro sd) = $268. I spent $290 on my cerbo gx with 4 cables so I spent only $22.90 more. Now i havent gotten a screen cause $2-300 is rediculous and i figured i could just use remote vrm. now im wondering, will this screen work with my cerbo??
Great video - thank you! My touchscreen has not arrived as of yet and I connected keyboard & mouse via USB and a reg. monitor via HDMI. Will this initially work? After downloading the (v3.13) image, instaling it (twice on different Micro SD cards), the screen just shows the Raspi rainbow image and there is no activity on the green LED... Update: Venus OS obviously has a Rasperry Pi 4B MINIMUM board revision requirement. Anything below v1.4 will apparently not work (both Pi4 units here are early v1.1)...
I get all the way to fetching data then it goes back to connecting, does this 8 or so times. Update: I tried an older android phone and it worked on the first try, now that it's all set up I can use any phone.
I was wondering if you have tried to get a Raspberry Pi LTE HAT working with this setup to be able send the logging to VRM, similar to the GlobalLink 520.
Thank you for this information, I purchased the Pi4 'B', to run my JKBMS, not realising it was the wrong one! The important bit you skipped over, was swopping the IP Address to the Pi (type it in where?) and making it the "Static Address". So as a grey haired newbie, I am stuck at that point. Please help.
Hi ! Is it possible to see my Smartsolar from Cerbo - Rasp4 ? The Bloutooth can't see it ? And Rasp4 dont have the port Ve.Direct. I have a cable USB to VE.direct but no success ... :--(
Great video I’ve followed every step and it’s been very simple. I’m currently setting up a pi4B (newbie) I’ve done the code via a wired keyboard and screen plugged into the pi. My issue is that after I’ve done SetupHelper install the package manager doesn’t show up under general / settings to get to the active packages Any help is appreciated! Thankyou
How does one connect VEBUS and VECAN as well as vedirect to the pi? I’m trying to figure out what the purpose of this would be if you don’t have access to those ports?
Thank you for taking the time to produce this tutorial. Indeed simpler than what I went through with the RPie3. Does anyone know if the Display install is now easier on RPie3 venus OS version? Cheers
Hi Tobi, great video. I'm struggling a little bit though with mine. I can see and connect the RPi in the Victron app however there is no IP address displayed. There isn't even a field for an IP address. Any ideas? Have I missed something? Cheers.
Hey Tobi, thx for this saved me a lot of work. Is was wondering if it is possible to run this system and connect a extra arduini for extra inputs and outputs. I’m running venus os on the rasberry and then use node red for the display as i don’t like the visualisation screen of venus os. In node red i can use all data from the venos os/victron settings ect. Now i want to expand the inputs and outputs with a extra arduino but the usb port on the rasberry you can’t use they are blocked by the venus os for detect uart connections to victron gear. So i’m kinda stuck there, any idea how i could get it working? Thx for the advice in advance
Unfortunately no I have not. But I did not connect my display in a while since I mainly use the App. I need to get back to try to figure this out. Apologies for the delay on this!
@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi okay, I was given a hyperpixel 4 touch screen but it connects using the rasberry pi pins. I am having a heck of a time making this thing work, owell
@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi guess i will keep trying this and if no go then off shopping I go, thank you for your help, so you have a video on how ti refurbished everything back to original?
It might be that it is not https and instead it is http. Might be an update from Microsoft or the browser itself. Can you just keep going since you know this IP?
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi thanks for the reply. I’ve tried the ip in Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Chromebook and also Chrome on Windows. All give the same error. It says set up a profile on the Display but I have the pi connected to a HDMI monitor. Even searching online for this error I get no results. Must be just me lol. Love the channel by the way
@@michaelgkellygreen Sorry to hear. I hope you can figure it out. Maybe starting over again? I'm wondering if they changed something in the latest releases which forced this change... I might need to redo the video soon to test it...
I believe this happened to me also once or twice. I just tried to connect afterwards and it just worked. Not sure if this is the same or similar behavior. I hope this helps
ok but it seems possible to you to replace the cerbo and put raspberry instead with a VEBUS VICTRON connection? @@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi thank you man !
I tried to find the requirements but I did not. I would not go below 4GB those days to be honest. But I did 't find the requirements for VenusOS unfortunetly.
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi I did some digging and apparently the cerbo GX runs on system w/ 1GB ram which appears to be more than sufficient as someone ran venos OS on rpi 2GB and 4GB and the system was showing using 37% on 2GB and 17% (4GB) of the available memory...
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Nice installation instructions. Thank you for it.
I would be interested in similar installation videos:
1. Using the ET112 meter to display the AC load in the VRM portal when using another DC/AC inverter, not from Victron.
2. Monitoring multiple AC loads and tracking them together on the VRM portal in one online graph using some of the AC meters integrated and programmed into the Victron system.
Thank you! Let me do some research on this!
Hi Tobi, excellent guide! I got my own Venus.OS working on rpi4. In order to avoid multiple reboots after unsuccessful pairing you must always "forget this device" from your ble menu on your smart phone.
Good call! Thanks for highlighting!
Thanks for this - worked through it and all up and working. Wonderful! I was using an Elecrow HDMI display and had exactly the same issue where it rebooted the first time round without asking if I wanted to calibrate the display, etc. I'm going to run it without the display for now, though, as it's going to be next to the battery box under the bed of our narrowboat. I added KWINDREM's ShutdownMonitor, too, as from bitter experience I'm not keen on just pulling the plug on Raspberry Pi
Thanks Tobi, I'm a real newbi with all this stuff. This was easy to follow. For the others that have purchased the Rpi Touchscreen it sets up really easily
Great video. I was having trouble adding my display but this video with commands did the trick. I’m not much of a rpi user and was having trouble installing display setup from the screen. Other videos just said do it but didn’t really show how. Yours did. Some of us are not real computer literate. Your video was my solution. Thanks
Thank you! It really helped me getting started. It works very well with my ASUS VT168HR touch monitor and Pi4.
Nice! Great to hear! Does the dimming work on your touch display?
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi It does not seem to work. Time to hack that library and figure out where the issue is?!
Hey Tobi, I followed your stuff last year but I had all kinds of issues like freezing, screen problems (third party touch screen) and just unresponsive. I was so overwhelmed and frustrated I gave up and nearly threw it all out.
This video probably posted a couple months after. I'm hoping to revisit this again this weekend and maybe jusg maybe get it working. All I want is to be able to monitor my camper battery remotely. (it's stored at my parent's, they have wifi to connect this to)
God I hope this works, thank you for all you do! You're a pleasure to watch and go at a great pace.
Thank you! Good luck with it!! I know what you mean and I remember how I started! I hope the newer tutorial helps!!
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi everything went great until it didn't. Same issues I was having last time, though the install and everything was much better this time. It is a lot more responsive. Unfortunately it REFUSES to connect to wifi. It keeps dropping available networks, asks for password, tries, fails, over and over. I have tried other power supplies, cables, setting the time zone via logging in from pc with it hardwired into my network. Wifi just will not take and I am super frustrated, disappointed and ready to hang it up once again.
Sorry to hear! Even just with the app you cannot set the password? It took me two times as well but it did just connect at one point
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi I can set the password a million times. Remote in via pc, in Victron app over Bluetooth, but it never connects. Have turned off all blocks in router, manually set date and time, tried my phone Hotspot instead, it won't stay connected, or rather connect at all. Always fails. I've put a post in the pi forums but I fear they'll tell me it's just a venusos problem and can't/won't help. I have tried different power bricks, all capable of more than the pi can pull. Amperage draw never goes over half an amp (2.5w). I'm so let down and I can't return the pi a year later, and I'm not buying another one just to rule out a bad unit. Everything you showed went great until they point and it's just impossible to get wifi connected. Without that, it won't do what I need. I wanted to mount this in my camper to monitor my system parked elsewhere and use the vrm portal. All useless without the wifi work 😔
@@Dougy_Fresh I'm sorry to hear this :/ My best guess would also be maybe the Pi does have issues. Is this the same problem you had previously with the first video? I guess you have a display connected so all manual connecting was tested as well.. I feel like all you did was enough testing and should have worked already :/
This was great! A great short tutorial on how to make this happen. Since the EasySolar-II GX doens't allow for a full display and control via a touch display. I'll have to build something like this, to be able to locally control it (without my phones VRM-app) and have a continuous easy view on all the charging etc. Also easier if someone else need to see if there is enough left in the batteries etc. Thanks!
Great to hear this helped!! :)
this is a great video. i already have a cerbo gx, in the box waiting to be installed, and i stumbled upon venus os and raspberry pi. this video definetly makes things look simple and i was ready to return my cerbo and go this route. until i priced out all the cables i need. i need 3x ve.direct and 1 ve.bus. the usb versions are considerablly more. $152 for all 4. So $152 + $115 (R pi 4, case, micro sd) = $268. I spent $290 on my cerbo gx with 4 cables so I spent only $22.90 more. Now i havent gotten a screen cause $2-300 is rediculous and i figured i could just use remote vrm. now im wondering, will this screen work with my cerbo??
Great video - thank you!
My touchscreen has not arrived as of yet and I connected keyboard & mouse via USB and a reg. monitor via HDMI.
Will this initially work? After downloading the (v3.13) image, instaling it (twice on different Micro SD cards), the screen just shows the Raspi rainbow image and there is no activity on the green LED...
Update: Venus OS obviously has a Rasperry Pi 4B MINIMUM board revision requirement. Anything below v1.4 will apparently not work (both Pi4 units here are early v1.1)...
I get all the way to fetching data then it goes back to connecting, does this 8 or so times.
Update:
I tried an older android phone and it worked on the first try, now that it's all set up I can use any phone.
I was wondering if you have tried to get a Raspberry Pi LTE HAT working with this setup to be able send the logging to VRM, similar to the GlobalLink 520.
Thank you for this information, I purchased the Pi4 'B', to run my JKBMS, not realising it was the wrong one!
The important bit you skipped over, was swopping the IP Address to the Pi (type it in where?) and making it the "Static Address".
So as a grey haired newbie, I am stuck at that point. Please help.
Type the IP address in the browser and you will get to the remote console. Any Browser (Chrome, Edge, etc.)
Thank you Tobi, Give me a flat belt driven lathe, anyday! :-)
Hi ! Is it possible to see my Smartsolar from Cerbo - Rasp4 ?
The Bloutooth can't see it ? And Rasp4 dont have the port Ve.Direct. I have a cable USB to VE.direct but no success ... :--(
Great video I’ve followed every step and it’s been very simple. I’m currently setting up a pi4B (newbie) I’ve done the code via a wired keyboard and screen plugged into the pi. My issue is that after I’ve done SetupHelper install the package manager doesn’t show up under general / settings to get to the active packages
Any help is appreciated! Thankyou
How does one connect VEBUS and VECAN as well as vedirect to the pi? I’m trying to figure out what the purpose of this would be if you don’t have access to those ports?
Thank you for taking the time to produce this tutorial. Indeed simpler than what I went through with the RPie3. Does anyone know if the Display install is now easier on RPie3 venus OS version? Cheers
Thank's for share IT 🙂
Hi Tobi, great video. I'm struggling a little bit though with mine. I can see and connect the RPi in the Victron app however there is no IP address displayed. There isn't even a field for an IP address. Any ideas? Have I missed something?
Cheers.
Hi Tobi thanks for the video, did you figure how to blank the display on the HDMI monitor?
Hey Tobi, thx for this saved me a lot of work. Is was wondering if it is possible to run this system and connect a extra arduini for extra inputs and outputs. I’m running venus os on the rasberry and then use node red for the display as i don’t like the visualisation screen of venus os. In node red i can use all data from the venos os/victron settings ect. Now i want to expand the inputs and outputs with a extra arduino but the usb port on the rasberry you can’t use they are blocked by the venus os for detect uart connections to victron gear. So i’m kinda stuck there, any idea how i could get it working? Thx for the advice in advance
Great video!
I can't activate the touch screen.
7" screen.
I tried all settings
Do you have any idea? Thank you
Whats the difference of outcome between the way you show to do it and how andy with off grid garage shows how to do it?
The outcome should be the same at the end. A clean installation of VenusOS. can be accomplished either way and whatever you feel more comfortable.
@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi thank you for the fast reply
Is it possible to have dual boot so you could boot Venus os or another pi operating system of the same card.
I'm sure you could configure this. I'm not having the skills to configure this on a Linux based platform though ;-)
Bought the same display but can’t seem to get it to go to sleep…have you been able to get the hdmi blanking to work?
Unfortunately no I have not. But I did not connect my display in a while since I mainly use the App. I need to get back to try to figure this out. Apologies for the delay on this!
Is this screen setup for the unit you have specifically? If so how do I go back into putty to undo the steps you show
Thanks for watching. It is for a Raspberry Pi or any other device which has an HDMI output
@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi okay, I was given a hyperpixel 4 touch screen but it connects using the rasberry pi pins. I am having a heck of a time making this thing work, owell
@@todamnbadGot it. With just HDMI it is definitely easier and more beginner friendly as well ;-)
@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi guess i will keep trying this and if no go then off shopping I go, thank you for your help, so you have a video on how ti refurbished everything back to original?
@@todamnbad I'm not sure what changes you are making. Worst case create a new SD card with an image and configure it another time
Thanks, man!
I’m getting ‘ A security profile has not been selected’ errs when I load the ip in my Browser. Any ideas how to fix ??
It might be that it is not https and instead it is http. Might be an update from Microsoft or the browser itself. Can you just keep going since you know this IP?
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi thanks for the reply. I’ve tried the ip in Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Chromebook and also Chrome on Windows. All give the same error. It says set up a profile on the Display but I have the pi connected to a HDMI monitor. Even searching online for this error I get no results. Must be just me lol. Love the channel by the way
@@michaelgkellygreen Sorry to hear. I hope you can figure it out. Maybe starting over again? I'm wondering if they changed something in the latest releases which forced this change... I might need to redo the video soon to test it...
Cant get past the bluetooth connection. Loops to 95% and then fails and does it over and over again. Ive cleared the bluetooth pairing on my phone.
im using a rp4 v1.5
I believe this happened to me also once or twice. I just tried to connect afterwards and it just worked. Not sure if this is the same or similar behavior. I hope this helps
So this set up keeps you from buying a cerbo GX??
Thanks for watching. Yes it can, but it requires more DIY efforts.
Do victron dorect cables work with the pi?
Yes
Ein super Video
Hi is there a way to change the size as looks tinny on my ipad
How to you open it on your iPad? Browser?
GOOD EVENING CAN WE PUT A VICTRON MP2 IN VENUS ON THE RASPBERRY ,? THANK
I like the thought. Unfortunately at the moment I don't have a Multiplus 2. I hope I can get one soon.
ok but it seems possible to you to replace the cerbo and put raspberry instead with a VEBUS VICTRON connection?
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi thank you man !
@@patrickruiz6764Yes absolutely!
ok ok how to connect the raspberry and the mp2 victron on vebus?@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi
ok how to connect the raspberry and the mp2 victron on vebus?@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi
would lower than 4GB versions of rpi work?
I tried to find the requirements but I did not. I would not go below 4GB those days to be honest. But I did 't find the requirements for VenusOS unfortunetly.
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi I did some digging and apparently the cerbo GX runs on system w/ 1GB ram which appears to be more than sufficient as someone ran venos OS on rpi 2GB and 4GB and the system was showing using 37% on 2GB and 17% (4GB) of the available memory...
@@marekondrus5579Thanks for sharing!
I got to enter the root password and putty wont type in the characters!
the user is visible but password does nto show anything, that is normal
It just keeps saying incorrect password. Thanks for your reply
Sadly these are not cheap any more! 5 years ago 3B+ was $40-50. Luckily I got several in my use already! Great clip!
I know what you mean! I paid for mine includign shipping $75 a few days ago. That was with the rpilocator website...
@@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi Oh that is cheap! Here they are between 150-180€ if you are lucky to get one?
I'm sure it will get better very soon!