Connecting a Victron system

Connect with your VRM login, or a token if you use two-step sign-in

• On your Account page, open the inverter card and pick Victron VRM.
• Enter your VRM email and password, give the connection a name, and press Connect.
• If your VRM account uses two-step verification, make a Personal Access Token instead: in VRM go to Preferences, then Integrations, then Access tokens. Paste the token into the card and leave email and password blank.
• Pick your installation if the account has more than one.
• Both the password and the token are stored encrypted. A token is the safer choice, and you can revoke it in VRM at any time.

What we read: solar, battery level, grid or shore, and load

• Solar production from the charger’s own DC reading, which is the honest one when a full battery makes the panels ease off.
• Battery charge level. We do not read battery power, so the chart shows how full the battery is rather than how hard it is working.
• Grid import and export, or on an off-grid layout, shore and AC input, shown as its own line.
• Household load, and your history, so the forecast can check itself and learn your usage.

What we do not do: set timers or change settings

The Action plan still tells you when to charge, sell and hold. On a Victron you carry that out yourself, in VRM or on the device, because we do not write to Victron systems.

• Every reading is fifteen minutes apart, so short spikes are smoothed out on the chart.
• Most of what we have tested is an off-grid system with a generator. A grid-connected Victron should read the same way, but tell us if something looks wrong and we will check it with you.