Victron Energy Cerbo GX: Comprehensive Panels and System Monitoring Review

My first foray into solar energy and I have mainly chosen quality Victron components. What good is a system if you can't see the inner workings of the solar energy flowing through the circuits. Something about having to see something happening even if it's electricity and nothing seems to be happening. So I chose the Victron Cerbo which offers WiFi and Bluetooth access to its app and connected components such as the inverter, MPPT, Batt Monitor, shore power and PV. Excellent quality and the…

Got this to install Victron ESS on my Victron solar inverter and MultiPlus inverter/charger system. Specifically, I wanted to be able to prioritize using solar instead of a generator when both are available. It took a bit of effort to set up the ESS helper with MultiPlus, but now everything works very well. I like having the control panel displayed on my smartphone, although I wish Victron would allow connection to the control panel via Bluetooth and the app and not just Wi-Fi. Otherwise I'm…

Cerbo GX is the only device that completes my system. Now I can keep track of all my Victron Energy devices that I have in my solar energy system. I can see every aspect of my system and make changes so my system is optimized for maximum performance. I now have a box for my solar charge controller, inverter/charger, smartshunt and batteries. Now I can see everything over WiFi from anywhere in the world. The information I see is highly customizable so I can only see the information that is…

Update from 08/15/2020 Since it was bricked up anyway, I opened the case. I saw it was a Beaglebone, went to the Venus OS GutHub website and found the img file. I downloaded the latest version of Venus, put it on the internet and everything worked right away. I'm glad it's working again!————I'm running my site with Venus on a RaspberryPi and thought I'd treat myself to a GX. When it works, it's more convenient and compact than the rpi setting. However, this device has arbitrarily stopped…

A device is great when everything works perfectly. If you encounter problems, it is very difficult to transfer errors to this device. You are tired of contacting the inverter team to find out the cause of a problem. Victron needs to improve the game to get the exact text from the Inverter (Multiplus) on the display here. There is also an issue with the placement of the Wi-Fi antenna for this device. Victron has released a fix to remove the antenna from the HDMI output jack. You can send the…