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  1. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

    Appreciated,  thanks!  Welcome to the forum by the way - I'm sure you'll find it much more friendly and helpful than your first impression.  ;)

     

    Thanks, and sorry if i made a bad impression.

    I build and re strake wooden boats  ( i have a 70ft wooden narrowboat).

    I rebuild deisel engines for fun. Specialing in Perkins. Got 4 or 5 4.108s in my garage now.

    I also have a William Osborne "Kingswift"

    Twin screw with perkins .

    I have plated and overplatef many narrowboats (Spingers the worst)

    Built houseboats from concrete pontoons.

    Fitted out about 20 odd boats ranging from narrowboats to trawlers.

    Take boats across the channel or North sea as an engineer not a technician.

    And many other things.

     

    • Greenie 1

  2. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

    Mine was the post Nick replied to with that answer. I don't know if you saw it, but I hope it was helpful - I found the RS485 and RS232 info from answers after ages trawling through Victron's on line help discussions.  I'd be most interested to hear how you get on if your son does try to build one as I'd quite like to do that myself... for exactly the reasons you first posted! :)

     

    Hi Seadog

    Was very helpful, thank you.

    Will let you know how he does it.

    But if you want to borrow mine, your welcome, it arrived yesterday. Nothing special. Should be easy for him to copy.

  3. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

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    Posted

    17 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:

    Ok, I am getting confused. What is the difference between

    https://www.cclcomponents.com/victron-energy-ve-direct-cable-1-8m?gclid=CjwKCAjwoMPcBRAWEiwAiAqZh3Jtp_BrhH1vMQ1SjiaeN27friBX1TOJsfPo8VJeqW-mT9p9wTtEaBoCalMQAvD_BwE

     

    ie the VE direct cable and the one that Finestboat posted. I need to read up a bit on the Victron site.

     

    By the way, in response to the OP complaining about changing the original thread. That was me. No one was answering your original post - obvioulsy 'cause no one has one. If you use this site, you need to get used to 'thread drift' as  this is a very dynamic forum. If you post a new thread then it is important for you to come back often to answer queries otherwise someone will come along and ask something not quite what you asked. In this case, I did BUT did give you the opportunity to come back......and if I hadnt responded the thread likely would have died. Whilst your thread has not helped you, it has helped me so thankyou for posting it.

    Thanks for the advice

  4. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    3 hours ago, nicknorman said:

    Ordered one what? A TTL to 232 converter for Mastervolt, or a 485 to 232 for Victron - always presuming the latter is the correct type of interface.

     

    i think 485 to USB would be better because most computers these days don’t have a serial port. Something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-to-RS485-Converter-Adapter-for-Win7-XP-Vista-Linux-Mac-485-UK-Stock/111068595216?epid=1131676522&hash=item19dc344410:g:6-YAAMXQHxVRiAAg

     

    But I am only going by what others said about the interface type. You will still need to work out which pins of the RJ connector to wire it to, difficult without an oscilloscope. If you are going to have a look at the signals on the pins with a scope, you will be able to work out the interface type. So that would be a better first step.

     

     

    Ordered one of these https://www.cclcomponents.com/victron-energy-interface-mk3-usb-ve-bus-to-usb?gclid=CjwKCAjwoMPcBRAWEiwAiAqZh6CC_wTCPwkPJI9gN4kOXtPekWeymwi-gGhXq19g_Zp-qsqcl7103BoC6XwQAvD_BwE

  5. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

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    Posted

    17 minutes ago, nicknorman said:

    I had a quick look but couldn’t immediately find out what sort of interface it is. If as you say it’s rs485 then as you say, pretty easy and cheap to make an interface. I bought the MV interface for our Combi before I realised it was just TTL level RS232. You can get a tiny TTL to 232 board from eBay for about £2, the rest is just wiring it up.

    Thank you. Great answer. Much appreciated. My son could probably make one knowing this. Ordered one now, should be here today. If anyone needs it after the weekend let me know

     

  6. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    8 hours ago, nicknorman said:

    I see. So you joined the site looking to borrow some equipment that someone else had to spend a 

    lot of money on. But as it turned out, no-one on here had it - after all, it is as you say rare. So now you are sulking big time because nobody had one and are “leaving the site”. Well all I can say is I’m really glad I have a Mastervolt interface and not a Victron one - I might have made a big mistake and lent it to you. Bye bye, sulky scroungers with a strong sense of entitlement and nothing to offer won’t be missed.

    I never said they are rare just expensive to use only once which is why i offered to rent it. Someone could have made some money back for one which they may have only needed once.

    Im leaving because it souds like people taking the piss and changing my original thred.

    You included. You dont know what i have to offer either.

    Im a boat engineer with my own company and a member of The Watermans Hall.

    Probably know a lot more than you about boats . Prick.

  7. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

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    Posted

    12 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

    I'm not so sure. Maybe intrrgaves are as common as interfaces? I've got lots of victron stuff on board but no interface. I've been asking a few people when out and about how to connect up my victron kit to a network or recording data and in 18 months only found one guy who had done it. Interfaces seem to be as common as hens teeth.

    By the way intrrgaves are rarer than rocking horse sh** but it seems interfaces are too. Unless your prepaired to pay for one.

    I hope noone on here needs to borrow mine.

    Thanks for all your not help, leaving this site.

  8. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

    I'm not so sure. Maybe intrrgaves are as common as interfaces? I've got lots of victron stuff on board but no interface. I've been asking a few people when out and about how to connect up my victron kit to a network or recording data and in 18 months only found one guy who had done it. Interfaces seem to be as common as hens teeth.

    The interfaces mk1 , 2 or 3 to usb are widely available, but because im only to use it once for 10 mins thought someone might have already bought one and want to get some money back by renting it. Afterall its only used to change internal settings.

    And if its working its working, unfortunately mine will not work with my 2.8kva generator but will with my mates

    cheap 700w one.

  10. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

    Robbo,

    thanks for the response.......with a pause, to see if anyone jumps in to answer the OP's original questions.

    ....

    ....

    ....

    ....

    Nothing heard! Yes it does look a bit technical...no, a lot technical. I think it would be good to be able to log data from the solar controller and data from the BMV 712 (both of which have bluetooth) onto a Pi. I have very limited experience on the Pi....just about managed to programme the one at home to send the IP address to No-IP so I can connect remotely to the home cctv with a dynamic IP broadand supplier, and runing Kodi on the Pi on the boat....but that is just plug and play. A first idiot question. How do you physically connect them together? I assume you can connect the pi to the 2 victron boxes by bluetooth? ....but is it better to hardwire it .....not sure what connectors are present on the victron boxes. Then, assuming I can get the Pi to record data, how to download the info from the Pi to the mac book? Macbook does not have a network connector. Pi (next to the BMV and solar controller) is at the opposite end of the boat to the router so out of wifi range and bluetooth only gets half way down the boat.

    I will have a good dig into the links you gave above.

     

    Apologies to the OP for taking over the thread, but at least it will be at the top of the VNC list and others will jump in.

    Robbo, can I pm you?

    Do you get all the tv channels with Kodi on the boat.?

  11. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

    Robbo,

    thanks for the response.......with a pause, to see if anyone jumps in to answer the OP's original questions.

    ....

    ....

    ....

    ....

    Nothing heard! Yes it does look a bit technical...no, a lot technical. I think it would be good to be able to log data from the solar controller and data from the BMV 712 (both of which have bluetooth) onto a Pi. I have very limited experience on the Pi....just about managed to programme the one at home to send the IP address to No-IP so I can connect remotely to the home cctv with a dynamic IP broadand supplier, and runing Kodi on the Pi on the boat....but that is just plug and play. A first idiot question. How do you physically connect them together? I assume you can connect the pi to the 2 victron boxes by bluetooth? ....but is it better to hardwire it .....not sure what connectors are present on the victron boxes. Then, assuming I can get the Pi to record data, how to download the info from the Pi to the mac book? Macbook does not have a network connector. Pi (next to the BMV and solar controller) is at the opposite end of the boat to the router so out of wifi range and bluetooth only gets half way down the boat.

    I will have a good dig into the links you gave above.

     

    Apologies to the OP for taking over the thread, but at least it will be at the top of the VNC list and others will jump in.

    Robbo, can I pm you?

    You can always get a repeater to send signal farther down the boat.

     

    6 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

    Robbo,

    thanks for the response.......with a pause, to see if anyone jumps in to answer the OP's original questions.

    ....

    ....

    ....

    ....

    Nothing heard! Yes it does look a bit technical...no, a lot technical. I think it would be good to be able to log data from the solar controller and data from the BMV 712 (both of which have bluetooth) onto a Pi. I have very limited experience on the Pi....just about managed to programme the one at home to send the IP address to No-IP so I can connect remotely to the home cctv with a dynamic IP broadand supplier, and runing Kodi on the Pi on the boat....but that is just plug and play. A first idiot question. How do you physically connect them together? I assume you can connect the pi to the 2 victron boxes by bluetooth? ....but is it better to hardwire it .....not sure what connectors are present on the victron boxes. Then, assuming I can get the Pi to record data, how to download the info from the Pi to the mac book? Macbook does not have a network connector. Pi (next to the BMV and solar controller) is at the opposite end of the boat to the router so out of wifi range and bluetooth only gets half way down the boat.

    I will have a good dig into the links you gave above.

     

    Apologies to the OP for taking over the thread, but at least it will be at the top of the VNC list and others will jump in.

    Robbo, can I pm you?

    Just get a repeater.

  12. Victron mk1, 2 or 3 usb Interface

    in General Boating

    Posted

    All i need is a VE mk1 2 or 3 usb adaptor or interface. I need to connect my charger inverter to my laptop to change 1 setting to allow my generator to work it.

    Sorry for mispelling.

    Ordered one now for £62 as i need it this weekend to make sure i have enough juice in my batteries for my dads breathing machine (240v through inverter with 550ah battery bank which is low)

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