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Haha cheers matey 👍, he can log into mine via victrons VRM to operate it, diagnose something, or to make adjustments, we've even managed to do remote software updates via linked laptops bud 😎👌👍👍👍.
IVEAVAN How much Spunky to have a longin set up so I can remotely operate Marks van for entertainment purposes after a beer or 3 😂 hopefully we will be able to get out again sooooooooooon 👍😀🐾
And there was me thinking the Raspbery Pi was solely for playing old 80's and 90's computer games on! 🎮😂 Absolutely amazing what you fellas have put together here. Looks well slick. 👍😊
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Very Impressive, cracking job guys! inspirational as always. And what about Spunky's van! Looks amazing, we seriously need a van tour when lockdown is over!
I have never met either of you Mark & Spunky, but from watching your vids and others there are quite a lot of intelligent, helpful and resilient people within the van community. Need to get my act together and get a van. Genius bit of kit!
Grey Gander Just superb, very impressed, I was looking at a similar idea last year using Arduino and a touch screen, that started just from not wanting loads of switches and different control systems, but the van project was put on a back burner 😒 but now I,m back on the van build this weekend 😊🤞I haven't posted anything as yet but will be posting van build videos in the next couple of weeks. One quick question what will you use for tank sensors? that,s another one on my list !! have looked at floats and ultrasonic but now I,m thinking simple DIY probes. Great idea gents excellent engineering thanks for sharing.
So it will give you ags control of your generator. You can set it to backup/top up the batteries or have it start and stop the generator to run the a/c
Thank you very much for the content. I'm in the process of building a Raspberry Pi based GX system however I still don't understand if the console/GUI can be accessed via Wifi over a browser instead of a touchscreen connected via HDMi
THANK YOU FOR GETTING BACK TO ME, CAN YOU NOT DO IT JUST WITH A BLUE TOOTH ON A SMALL TAB? JUST A THOUGH,T LIKE THE LOOK OF YOUR NEW VAN, YOU HAD A WHITE ONE A WHILE AGO , KEEP SAFE
IVEAVAN ah I see, 250L should be about a week I hope for me and my wife. I do like my long showers ☺️. I ended up taking of my 250L gray tank under the van and going for 105L instead as there was a huge metal rib in the way so the tank was hanging low, now the tank fits under the van with good clearance ☺️
Mark, love the Video, really well done, and well done to Spunky too. Couple of questions and apologies if they've already been asked. 1. Why are you using a generator and solar, do you plan to be off grid long term? and 2. If the raspberry pi fails/crashes/$h1t's itself, have to a way of looking at the data without it. Tech will always fail when you most need it. Jamie
I don't have a 240v inverter in the van (every thing I use is either powered off 12v or lpg which has more then served me well with no issues) For the price of an decent pure sine wave inverter I thought I'd buy the pure sine wave generator, "does two jobs in one" . Rather then the one job, plus its back up for my reef tank at home, if power is lost in the home the reef tank won't survive for very long without power. 😉👌👍👍👍.
@@Spunky.sparks brilliant, So basically it's taking all the information from the victron's and other sensor arrays and displaying it in one central display. Love it!!
@@Iveavan Mark,thanks for the reply, makes perfect sense to have a backup for the reef and have the genny in the Van. I've test run mod. Sine wave inverters and most stuff will run off them without any harm. I'm going to run a domestic under counter fridge freezer of the inverter and everything else will be 12vdc. 🙈
That is brilliant. Is it some kind of proprietary software for the raspberry pi that you have customised or is it something the pair of you have developed.
it's called Venus OS if anyone wants to play with it. @Spunky - are your modifications on github or the Victron community forum where we can see how you got things working? What did you use for the ADC for tank reading ?
Spunky switching things on and off remotely when he’s had a few jars flashing lights in a dogging car park 😂😂😂 I’m finding this funnier than I should 😂😂😂
Hey Mark that spunky’s no dozer!! Great thing he can also remotely access it incase you had an issue when abroad or something he can advise you were to go without the hassle of trouble shooting 👍🏼
Cheers matey 😉👍, yes, for romote access he's been doing the software updates mostly to adjust ohm's (resistance settings) for the tanks, (which is now sorted) no other issues then that really over the past 5 months of having it in my van bud 😉👌👍👍👍
Such a cool idea. Your only down the road from me too(well spunky appears to be anyway) Did you write the Pi program yourself? Or is there like a model you can download?
Cheers matey, It's all on victron open source Web site, we're just working on a new type of MBC 10" touch screen with 20 relay options so the full van can be automated 😉👍👍👍.
This is badass, hope you don't mind me shooting some Q's? I want to do something like this for a future van build. How much does this cost if you go for a budget-minded setup? Those Victron gadgets quickly add up... Would be nice to at least avoid a Victron-branded battery! How does it deal with power draw? obviously an rpi isn't low-power, and in winter the van might be parked up and not get much solar? How do you avoid running the battery down? Does the GPS work as some kind of tracking system? Can it hook up to the car's ODB2 port and get even more info?
No not at all bud, you probably be able to do it for around the £300 mark if you went for the same set up as mine and did some shopping around for the parts required, that doesn't include any of the Victron hardware, which you will need if you want a system like mine. The main cost is your own time, being able to program the Victron venus software to enable it to do in what you want it to do.... the pi only pulls milliamps so you don't really notice the power loss upon the batteries, the GPS is reliable, giving the correct location of the van when I've checked. Due to the venus software being installed onto the pi, you'd have to use another Raspberry pi for ODB2 diagnostics bud 😉👍.....
It’s a amazing peace of kit spunky you and Mark have done a brilliant job and with all the videos I have watched on RU-vid Mark yours must be one of the best . Spunky have you seen any of my videos you have done a far better job at doing this video then I have done in a number of ways . Spunky if you and Mark ever want to go into business I’m sure you will both make it a good one ☝️I wish you both all the luck in the world not that you will need much Luck , I’m not a spark but Over the years I have learned enough to do what I need to do to get electric to work safely both on 12 volt and 240 volt but technology for me is a no no my mobile phone was when I used to run down the road and step in one of them red boxes that you put old pennies in, like the ones in Hull that are White , have a good day and a big thumps 👍👍👏👏👏👏 UP to you Both
Spunky cost is one of my biggest problems only getting a pension and what money I did have saved went on the house we moved in to it had to be rewired and re plumbed and well every thing it have no central heating or double glazing I should of converted my van years ago when I had the money . And I still have loads to get for the van . But Like I said you have come up with a brilliant peace of kit
Thank you Matt 👍, the water and LPG senders are wired up to Spunkys interface card that's then connected to the pi, all of which is pretty much plug and play, you'll have to calibrate the readings and size of the tanks in the victron software but that's not a big job to be fair bud 😉👍👍👍.
Nice one! I’ll take a look at that, just started to put together my system and planning to do the same as you, perfect timing with the video! Awesome work guys 👍
@@Iveavan hey just super impressed with the IT skills - say hello to Spunky for me - you're on to a winner with this channel- I've watched most of the vid's, your skills and dedication left me astounded especially the engine change - gob smacked - stay safe ;O)
Hi buddy, just watched all of your build during lock down. Amazing stuff! Just a question what do you think your van will be weighing now? Considering a iveco xlwb high roof myself but worried about the 3.5t limit. It seems only 900kg can be added and when add a driver and passenger that drops to about 750 which doesn't seem enough!
Hi bud 👌👍. The honest answer to that is I don't know yet, as I was going to place the van on a weigh bridge once I came back from Scotland... Then lock down happened 😬🤦♂️, I've worked off the 900kg from the start (but recently seen payload of 1200kg 🤔🤷♂️). My batteries, water tank, gastank weigh when full 280kg leaving around 400kg in building materials which I've tried to use sparsely or tried to use light weight materials like 6mm plywood 30mm x 20mm frame work and so on. But in reality I will not know until this lock down is over matey 🤔😉👌👍👍👍.
This should help you with payload, Ive managed to find the answer via various iveco websites / forums which seem to have the same answer for the gen 3 Iveco's bud. A MWB single rear wheel van has around 1375kg of payload. A LWB single rear wheel van has around 1255kg of payload (my van) with 3mm thick chassis A LWB dual rear wheel van has around 1130kg. Its not only the extra wheels, the chassis is thicker (5mm) hence the drop in payload. I'm not 100% on this but I'd have thought a chassis cab with a box will be under 1000kg of payload.
@@Iveavan thanks for you answer. Would love to see how you manage to to use more relay. By using Victron Venus with a raspberry pi, I don't need anymore Victron products with Bluetooth build in, correct?
It's all open source upon the Victron Web site, the only thing that isn't open source was our DC 2 DC board. For the water, LPG, temperature levels and so on. 😉👍👍👍...
Yes, so from the tank level sender, the cable from that goes into our 'Analogue to Digital board', and then the Raspberry Pi plugs into the 'Analogue to digital board', it measures the resistance from the tank level sender ( being able to show the level on the screen).. We do sell the Analogue to Digital board separately if you want the tank and temperature level gauges to work 😉👍
I leave you some links how to do this. Venus OS Pi Images updates.victronenergy.com/feed... Includes images for Pi2 (Pi3 here) and Pi4 and others. Raspberry pi on Venus Guide - For reference and config.txt options github.com/aaronsb/victronven... GUI Mods github.com/kwindrem/GuiMods Dbus- Serial battery Driver for Venus OS: github.com/Louisvdw/dbus-seri...
Very advanced. However, why not invest in fuel cell technology instead of a dangerous, noisy, filthy, high-maintenance, stinky, cacophony of clattering, obsolete, steam-era generator?
