ricardocello
Watching and Learning
OK, I've had Home Assistant running on a RaspPi5 for a few months talking to some Shelly light switches,
and talking to my UniFi Protect cameras, also bridged to Apple Home. It works reasonably well.
Today I decided to integrate with the Victron Cerbo GX so I can have a local data repo in addition to VRM.
Do I need this? No, I'm just tinkering and having fun.
I followed this guy's video to setup Mosquitto bridge to the Cerbo. It was exceptionally well done.
This allows both monitoring and control in parallel with the normal Victron Console and VRM.
Change a setting in one place, and it is reflected in everything else within a second.
Also, my older command line MODbus tools also work in parallel. Everything works together, very impressive.
One thing I really liked was using MQTT Explorer to show the tree view of what is available on the Cerbo (see mqtt-explorer.com).
I was already familiar with the extensive list Victron provides on MODbus and dbus, and the MQTT view is very similar.
Right now, I've setup some basic gauges.
Anyone else done this? Any cool things you've discovered?
and talking to my UniFi Protect cameras, also bridged to Apple Home. It works reasonably well.
Today I decided to integrate with the Victron Cerbo GX so I can have a local data repo in addition to VRM.
Do I need this? No, I'm just tinkering and having fun.
I followed this guy's video to setup Mosquitto bridge to the Cerbo. It was exceptionally well done.
This allows both monitoring and control in parallel with the normal Victron Console and VRM.
Change a setting in one place, and it is reflected in everything else within a second.
Also, my older command line MODbus tools also work in parallel. Everything works together, very impressive.
One thing I really liked was using MQTT Explorer to show the tree view of what is available on the Cerbo (see mqtt-explorer.com).
I was already familiar with the extensive list Victron provides on MODbus and dbus, and the MQTT view is very similar.
Right now, I've setup some basic gauges.
Anyone else done this? Any cool things you've discovered?
