Hi all,
I am running a Victron Solar Inverter and really would like to get data from it into my Node-Red Setup.
There are several ways, but none of them worked for me so far
MQTT ... I activated the Victron Venus GX MQTT broker and connected to it with MQTT.fx
Unfortunately all I get is a one-time serial number ... thats it ... no further updates
Modbus ... I tried to use the Node-Red Modbus node to read data from the Inverter ... unfortunately something is goinf wrong:
Although the reference guide tells me: Address 800 - length 6 --> Serial number
Victron Node-Red Nodes
there is already a set of node-red nodes, I installed them, but again - all I get is a set of empty nodes and error messages
I would REALLY like to get some figures from my devices into Node-Red ... perhaps someone out there could help me
BR
Gawander
The Venus GX device can be the color control computer CCGX or you can use a Raspberry PI to act as the hub. There is also a new headless device that has a ethernet and wifi interface.
All Venus GX devices are basically Linux computers and could run Node-Red as a native resource.
However the CCGX device is extremely limited and can not be dual purpose in this case.
Read the documentation in fine detail as you have to modify both the node-red and Venus GX devices configuration files before the nodes will intercommunicate. Also, you will want to turn off automatic firmware updates on the Venus GX device that you use, as a firmware update wipes out it's configure that enables remote node-red interactions.
PS. One of the other advantages of having a Venus GX device, is that you can use their VRM web interface to monitor your solar system from the public web if you configure it for that service.