Connecting Victron to Home Assistant using MQTT

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Hi Everyone, In this video, I show you how to locally connect your Victron device (such as the Cerbo GX) to home assistant using MQTT. This way you can control and monitor your Victron devices and use home assistant for automation and creating better dashboards.
touch victron.conf file:
connection victron
address 192.1CHANGE THIS
topic N/# in 0 victron/
topic R/# out 0 victron/
MQTT Topic (9:17):
victron/R/48e7da85ccd9/system/0/Serial
Code Github Page (12:10)
gist.github.com/KidA001/dc558...
Other Resources:
www.imval.tech/index.php/blog...

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@JMX246 7 месяцев назад

well explained - new to both of these - thanks for posting ! (using it with VenusOS on the Victron side) - RPI3B and on the HA side - new RPI4-4gb

@JMX246 7 месяцев назад

would be great if you could do a PART-II on how to integrate this into HA dashboards

@benschaefer6858 2 месяца назад

Amazing video - it's so fulfilling to see my Victron data on HA. I struggled a bit and now I will never forget this mosquitto has 2 T'S! 🙂

@sweetlifeadventure7 6 месяцев назад

Wow! Exceptionally clear and I am now convinced that I will be doing this. You got me from "wow that's a thing?" to "I'm doing this with my new build". I can see that the monitoring side will be great to have, PLEASE make a part 2 showing what we can do or control!

@Marstepan 3 месяца назад

check your venuos firmware release on your cerbo and if you have anything after 3.30 you please replace the payload for keepalive with: victron/R//keepalive

@PatrickDanforth 2 месяца назад

Thanks! Very helpful, it took me two tries but it is up and running now!

@juanpierredutoit4293 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much, learnt a ton today! Thank so much for all the time you put into this!

@remimunteanu 5 месяцев назад

You can also add "topic W/# out 0 victron/" to the mqtt config file and it will alow you to change some settings also (write topics). Great video !

@Marstepan 3 месяца назад

topic W/# out 0 victron/ examples of controls please! ;) thank you for clear and 'end to end' approach! great work. looking forward for 'controls' part 2!

@bwebman Месяц назад

Amazing, thank you! Now I can set up some automations to efficiently use any excess power I might have!

@Alex-jw9xx 2 месяца назад

really, really well explained, thank you so much!

@francoisdupreez9754 11 дней назад

Great stuff, got mine working. Thanks for sharing!

@ruidias9622 4 месяца назад

Thank you! Worked without issues!

@DannyCsaszar 5 месяцев назад

thanks for posting this, got mine setup now. One thing that had this old man stumped is that the "!" is what I missed in your video at time 12:51. Once I added it then the mqtt started working

@soucraven 26 дней назад

Excellent!!! This is fully superb job

@dougle03 2 месяца назад

This really is a great video. However, This can also be done with the 'HACS' Add-on using the 'Victron GX modbusTCP integration'. It passes through all possible data and is far easier to install and configure.

@Nogodsnomasterz 6 месяцев назад

Great video! Really appreciate you taking the time.

@kellyjsanders86 5 месяцев назад

How much does the recent Victron implementation of FlashMQ (from Mosquitto) change your approach? thx

@VincentArdolino 3 месяца назад

Wow, mind blown 🤯 This is an amazing crash course in MQTT and Victron and Home Assistant. I have all these systems living on islands because I’ve never had any luck with setting up the MQTT broker. This was a high speed crash course that delivers so much information into a highly compressed timeline. Great job.

@rodneyhrytsak3407 4 месяца назад

Hello! At 4:29 it does not bring me straight to that page. Where do you enter the samba credentials that were setup in samba share in home assistant?

@toukevable 15 дней назад

I'd like to be able to toggle my converter switch, is it possible ? Any explanation about it somwhere ?

@timtaylor8557 Месяц назад

So this won't work with just a Smartsolar MPPT controller?

Месяц назад

I managed to integrate Victron VRM into home assistant, but with a small problem: the data is only available when I connect with my VRM application on my phone. As soon as I am no longer connected via my application, the data is no longer updated in home assistant. How to fix this problem ?

@timlucas4014 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for this but I had to add address 192.1CHANGE THIS :1883 ( the :1883 ) Also active: true folder: mosquitto and my HA IP address rather than core-mosquitto For any one else having problems

@melonmonkeygarage7735 6 месяцев назад

Glad you got it to work.

@patrickruiz6764 3 месяца назад

merci pour ce tuto que j'ai eu du mal a comprendre je me serre de duckdns pour acceder a hom-assistant je n'arrive pas !!!! peut tu m'aider merci

@remimunteanu 5 месяцев назад

If you are runnig Venus OS 3.20 or later you can avoid message flood by publishing '{ "keepalive-options" : ["suppress-republish"] }' on 'victron/R/YOUR-SERIAL-NUMBER/keepalive' using a periodic timer, and to get all topics (like first connection) you can publish to the same 'keepalive' topic but with no message and it will query all topics. Hope this helps :)

@Przedzik 3 месяца назад

great Video !!! I like to add more entities, start with one grid power I copy all exactly as loads just change values too much my mqtt but can't get them visible in the HA :( # AC Grid - state_topic: "victron/N/my id /system/0/Ac/Grid/L1/Power" name: "AC Grid" unique_id: "ac_grid" device_class: power value_template: '{{ value_json.value }}' unit_of_measurement: "W" icon: mdi:power-socket-uk am I missing some step?

@MOKPT3 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. I have 2 Cerbos. How can I get data from both?

@melonmonkeygarage7735 6 месяцев назад

Hmmmm. I'm not entirely sure, I bet you would have to add both to the victron.conf file. But would probably have to use different variables for the topics (N and R). Then you would probably have to add another path to the keep Alive automation using the new variables for the second cerbo.

@HaithamAbouBakr 5 месяцев назад

Hi thanks for posting this. i wonder whether you had a chance to have cerbo GX integrated with Fibaro HC3. let me know if you did this before

@melonmonkeygarage7735 5 месяцев назад

Unfortunately, I have not.

@scottmurphy1146 5 месяцев назад

FANTASTIC I'm gonna build one Any thoughts on getting a Growatt AIO Inverter into Venus OS via RS485/CAN via Modbus/MQTT ? I'M looking WOW I found you Thank You !

@melonmonkeygarage7735 5 месяцев назад

Hmmm, not sure. Its not something I am familiar with

@toukevable 5 месяцев назад

Hi, thank you for your vid but I'm stuck at 4:29. I put credentials in samba share but I don't have home assistant poping in network (except my link to home assistant web browser) , what should I do ?

@juanpierredutoit4293 5 месяцев назад

Just pop in your homeassistant IP into explorer "If you are on Windows you use \\\, if you are on MacOS you use smb:// to connect to the shares." Thats where you enter the Samba creds you made.

@rodneyhrytsak3407 4 месяца назад

Same! Did you find a solution?

@toukevable 15 дней назад

@@rodneyhrytsak3407 sorry did not see your com. I actually managed to do it but I don't remember at all how since the time. Because I tried to access it today but did not work as it should.

@francoisdupreez9754 11 дней назад

Open file explorer- when on 'This PC", there's 3 dots at the top, click 'add network location', then type homeassistent.

@didierv3069 3 месяца назад

Great job but I'm block at minute 11:15 when you connect Home Assistant Hurrican. I receved a disconnected server message. What's wrong? Thanks

@Wirelessinfopuntbe 3 месяца назад

My to, I receved also a disconnected server message.

@marekmelena1913 4 месяца назад

Problem here.. I was successful. Up to automation. I see mqtt messages in mqtt eplorer - cerbo. But i dont see it in HA mqtt explorer. Any clue? Id is correct.

@marekmelena1913 4 месяца назад

fixed! i totally missed to change FALSE to TRUE in mosquitto broker.. :)

@ppi57 6 месяцев назад

On a Mac, I can't make a file with .conf as the suffix... it defaults to .rtf

@ppi57 6 месяцев назад

Ok, I rounded up an old laptop but when I click on Homeassistant under "Networks" it sends me right to the home assistant instance webpage... what am I missing?

@AdiMock 5 месяцев назад

That‘s my problem too.

@melonmonkeygarage7735 5 месяцев назад

sorry for the late response, it sounds like home assistant is only showing up under "other devices" on the network page in file explorer. It should be showing up under the "computer" section. On my laptop I couldn't get it to show up properly using samba share either, so I had to map network drive. Here is the resources I used. community.home-assistant.io/t/samba-share-not-accessible-through-windows-10/352134/2 I got it to work using the info posted by francis, and I entered the credentials set in the samba share addon. Hope this helps!

@thomasengel5387 Месяц назад

Victron has switched to "FlashMQ". Unfortunately, your instructions no longer work.

@amieXchen Месяц назад

Really?

@francoisdupreez9754 11 дней назад

I'm new to HAand want to use it with my system, any pointers?

@digitalmarketersouravbd 6 месяцев назад

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@aaronsingmaster1936 6 месяцев назад

FYI 'touch.Victron.conf' is not the name of the file you want to create (of course, you can if you want). "touch" is a linux command that creates an empty file, thus "touch Victron.conf' creates a file, 'Victron.conf'.

@melonmonkeygarage7735 5 месяцев назад

that makes more sense! ha