Beiträge von stepir

  • Victron and Home Assistant integration

    Hi Roel sorry for the late answer


    The software is home assistant


    https://www.home-assistant.io/


    It offer both a web interface but also an IOS (iPhone) version.


    The server side run on dedicated hardware - you have plenty of choices, perhaps on a motorhome the easiest would be a raspberry as it’s little and with very low power requirements.


    Home assistant offer tons of integration capabilities (with victron, many alarm system, smart plugs, etc etc). It also have great automation capabilities and it’s relatively easy to script/code.


    As per what it concern the tank integration it work in this way:

    - I replaced my tank sensors with SuperSense which has voltage output

    - the victron tank gx can read the voltage output of SuperSense and bring those readings to the victron portal

    - I have victron integration in home assistant

    - basically I’m reading the tank levels from the victron portal and representing those in home assistant

  • Victron and Home Assistant integration

    Hi


    as there's people here playing as well with domotic system I wanted to share my progress regarding the subject.


    I've added recently a Victron GX Tank to my install and now able to integrate SuperSense with Victron. As a results through the Victron modbus interface I'm now able to see my tank levels in Home Assistant:




    My UI at the moment has:

    - a Telsa style power reporting, showing Grid/Generator consumption, PV production, Battery charge and discharge, AC/DC loads, Quality of the Grid line and Volts of my battery
    - The tank levels, including the LPG

    - Starter Battery of the Iveco daily status (volts + charging current)
    - Generator Applet to start the generator remotely, current run runtime and reasons for the start (automatic based on conditions or manual)
    - Input current limiter


    the next things I want to add are:

    - Display the battery autonomy I'll have for the next hours (based on current consumption)
    - Display the tanks autonomy I'll have for the next days (based on the current day consumption)

    - Reminder of when the tanks have been filled / emptied the last time (day)
    - Button to start the generator manually for 1 hours (so that I press a button and won't need to manually stop it after 1 hour)

    - A condition that it I start the generator remotely but AC is not detected after 2 mins it will restart the generator 2-3 times. Sometime the generator won't start immediately at the first try :)

    - Integration with my Alarm system (both to arm/disarm - but also to report if one the flap or door/windows have been left open)


    Hope you like it :D

  • Cinderella Toilet?

    guess you are referring to the ventilation - the burn cycle should not last more than 1hr? I don't have energy limitation (got a 10kwh battery) but eventually more concerned about the fan noise over night.

  • Cinderella Toilet?

    Yes!

    it won't be a big deal at least for me:

    - 1.3A @ 12v for 45mins (standard incineration time) will be 15w. I have a LiPo battery can live with it

    - 180g for incineration it's not minimal but can take up to 6 use (probably 4 for adults) provide they happen during the same process. In any case I have a 120l tank so I'm quite ok with it as well

  • Cinderella Toilet?

    Hi,


    I searched and saw some thread regarding it but most of the ppl didn't had direct feedbacks.


    So wanted to ask if anyone here own it and have direct experience so share. I'm mostly interested in hearing opinions regarding the internal heat produced by the incineration process and external smell (internally I read there's none).


    Thanks in advance!!!

  • new user

    Zitat von Heiko

    There is a Homekit interface for ioBroker as well ;)

    For now I collect the sensor data by parsing the Supersense Portal.

    When I started the Victron portal had very little information and really wanted to extract such data directly from the CCGX... so I used the Victron-SignalK integration.

    Probably if I'd start the project today I would use a different approach :D

  • new user

    Got it - I was thinking about reverse engineer the BT protocol the app is using to read the values from the SuperSense Box. I have a PI in my camper that could do it and then post the results to the CCGX.

  • Hacking the CBE Panel of Concorde/Morelo.

    thanks Heiko


    the image It run has been prepared (most probably) using an embedded environment and disabling most (if not all) the possibility to interact with the board in the standard ways. It won't answer ActiveSync request.


    I think the only way to gather control is launching explorer.exe - normally on PNA this is achieved by knowing the filename the system use for updates and rename explorer.exe to the that name on a usb drive.

    see here as an example - https://ripitapart.com/2018/10…t-dsox1102g-oscilloscope/


    I would need someone that had the panel being sw updated... :D

    I was thinking of using a PI Zero and configuring in OTG virtual disk mode - it can simulate being a USB drive... to try to sniff which filesystem operations is the CBE panel doing on it. Unfortunately the partition is exposed as a block device and I'm not able to monitor what is happening inside...

  • new user

    hey Heiko


    nice work :)


    I have a CCGX - at that time it was the only GX Victron had :)

    As per my need I was mostly interested in having a proper integration and siri (I'm an iOS user) support rather than having a new display.


    So far I have integrate the alarm (it's a Yale system) and my security cameras (so that motion alert is automatically activate based on alarm state), battery and the generator (so that I can start it while driving just by asking siri).

    How do you collect the SuperSense data? I google translated your post but it's not clear? guess your are using the tank sender to updated the CerboGX?

    I was hoping to have a pure sw approach to the same need and being able to post the supersesense reading to the ccgx endpoints of the tanks.

  • new user

    Hi everyone


    I found this forum while looking for info on SuperSense and Victron integration. I'm a hardware/software engineer working in IT.


    Myself and my family own a Concorde Charisma 920G - with plenty of geek stuff I mostly installed myself and integrated....


    Cheers!

    Stefano

  • Hacking the CBE Panel of Concorde/Morelo.

    Hi


    I'd like to get desktop access to the windows ce running the CBE Panels of Concorde/Morelo.


    I know the system have blocked and I think the only way is finding what is the filename used for updating the system though the USB port on the back.


    Keyboard and mouse drivers have been disabled/removed (see attach)


    Wondering if anyone here has any information to share for such purpose.


    Thanks