Victron Charges/Battery Monitor

[geekydrewbie]

Hi I was just wondering if anyone has successfully used the OMG to monitor any Victron devices via their Bluetooth connection? I have an Orion DC charger and a Battery Protect. Would be nice to be able to monitor the voltage of my leisure battery

Cheers

[DigiH]

Hi @geekydrewbie,

I’m sure you have searched the forum for other Victron threads, and found

Does anyone know if it's possible to read the battery info from Victron blue smart chargers?

As title. I’m not sure if the information broadcast by Victron is some proprietary format or not. Turns out the advertisements are encrypted. Can this be supported? https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/93919/victron-bluetooth-ble-protocol-publication.html

which states it might e possible to decrypt encrypted encoded BLE advertising broadcasts with Theengs Gateway, if the encryption key is known, OR use OpenMQTTGateway’s connection READ functionality to read GATT service/char from the devices if enabled, as stated in the last post.

Let us know how you get on.

[geekydrewbie]

Thanks @DigiH . I did come across that , but will check it again. I do have the encryption keys for the devices..I will do some reading up on how to decrypt and I assume adding new devices to the config.

[DigiH]

@geekydrewbie

I do have the encryption keys for the devices..

Kepp in mind that decryption would only currently work with Theengs Gateway, and only once we’d have created a decoder for it together by analysing the broadcast data together.

Connection reading the service/char however only works with OpenMQTTGateay.