AND hot water! Good grief4 sensors?!bloody show off!!
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My external sensor is under the fuel flap, and with a black van any direct sun means that reading is basically useless...
It hit 31 degrees in the warm sun yesterday!
add the BT ruvvis to the CERBO,
then when they are in range of the cerbo they will show,
remember to add the widgets in VRM,
and the screen above is the NEW GUI for the remote, that you can choose from the VRM menu,
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It's a pretty simple setup (not cheap obvs!) and seems a logical way to put "excess" power from solar to good use if/when I'm somewhere sunny enough!
12v immersion
The sun is out so i'll be spending my lunch break re-mounting the solar panel to the roof prep channel.
That is a significant GUI upgrade. Cheers!
I done the same with the fuel flap ruvvi.My external sensor is under the fuel flap, and with a black van any direct sun means that reading is basically useless...
It hit 31 degrees in the warm sun yesterday!
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But it's the inside temp I'm surprised with ...
35c !!! Grey van that insulated..... But all day sitting in some sun with no windows open so add up.
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OK, I hope I'm being a fool, I was expecting the Tenda to come up on the WiFi list, because it does occasionally, but it probably won't if its connected via the ethernet cable, the Cerbo says ethernet is enabled. I really don't get out enough in the van, it's been sat sitting on the drive for 9 days. Friday is test day... Sunday a trip to Oxford to take the nipper to a university offer holder day. I'm excited to see how much data it robs me on 'realtime' mode.
That's a very valid point...
The Cerbo is 2.4ghz only....
Some modern routers are 2.4/5g and can auto switch.... So you may need to disable the 5g wifi feature on the router.
I've had the VRM portal loaded on my laptop with realtime running for pretty much the entire working day before and it's used...
30MB.
I love the way my Mrs is getting interested in the Ruuvi/data thing, financially beneficial to me that is!
She made the valid point that when we are parked up for a few days, the baby 13 litre fresh water container we use is in a cupboard made difficult to access by the bed being set up. A remaining water level would be useful for those occasions, and Easter/Father's day is coming up...
What's a good level sensor for the 13 litre container which won't poison us with particulate emissions?!
She made the valid point that when we are parked up for a few days, the baby 13 litre fresh water container we use is in a cupboard made difficult to access by the bed being set up. A remaining water level would be useful for those occasions, and Easter/Father's day is coming up...
What's a good level sensor for the 13 litre container which won't poison us with particulate emissions?!
What sort of container is it?
You've got 2 options - the cerbo can take a wired level sensor like this - Water tank level sensor - resistive tank level sender
Or you can buy wireless sensors that stick onto the bottom of the container - Mopeka Pro Check Water Sensor Bottom Mount w/Collar (Victron Compatible)
The 2nd one is on my 'to buy' list as there's nothing worse than gagging for a morning coffee only to have your water splutter and stop before you've got enough in the kettle!
This is the feller, 12v is easily accessible, but I would like a drop/glue in fit and forget that is Cerboable if possible?What sort of container is it?
You've got 2 options - the cerbo can take a wired level sensor like this - Water tank level sensor - resistive tank level sender
Or you can buy wireless sensors that stick onto the bottom of the container - Mopeka Pro Check Water Sensor Bottom Mount w/Collar (Victron Compatible)
The 2nd one is on my 'to buy' list as there's nothing worse than gagging for a morning coffee only to have your water splutter and stop before you've got enough in the kettle!
OK, it looks like the Mopeka one, but obviously I need you to buy it first, just to make sure it's as good a product as all the other products I've copied you with!What sort of container is it?
You've got 2 options - the cerbo can take a wired level sensor like this - Water tank level sensor - resistive tank level sender
Or you can buy wireless sensors that stick onto the bottom of the container - Mopeka Pro Check Water Sensor Bottom Mount w/Collar (Victron Compatible)
The 2nd one is on my 'to buy' list as there's nothing worse than gagging for a morning coffee only to have your water splutter and stop before you've got enough in the kettle!
I wonder if that 2032 cell is easily changeable when the unit is stuck to the base of my container?
Would I need to borrow my 4 year old grand daughters hands and little arms to get to it?!
The bracket sticks to the container then you can remove the 'lid' to remove the sensor, so easy - just need to be able to get to the bottom of the container!
Father's day sorted. Thanks Paul.
For those interested in data usage for the 4g router, here's this month's use to date. Just over half a Gb when we were out for the whole day. When van is sat sitting on the drive, bugrall data, its on the house WiFi.
I pay £7.20 a month for 16Gb, but may reduce that back to 8Gb for a fiver now I know nothing else is using its data!
I pay £7.20 a month for 16Gb, but may reduce that back to 8Gb for a fiver now I know nothing else is using its data!
Toasty warm today....
I've only got two ruuvi's, one in the fridge and one under the fuel flap. Anyone got a spare Ruuvi they don't want?!
