Victron Venus OS Large, Node Red and Signal K online resources ...

[Baggywrinkle]

I've just enabled Venus OS Large on my Victron Ekrano and now have Node Red with all the Victron kit integrated, and a Signal K Server (My Ekrano is connected to my NMEA2000 backbone) - I also have a Raspberry Pi capable of running Venus OS Large and I want to use it as a develpment environment before screwing up the boat. Much as I hate turning myself into 24Hr IT support for stuff I've created, it looks like I can create some really cool dashboards and automations for the boat - the tank display on the Bavaria control panel is sh!t and the sensors even worse. I'd also like to automate a dehumidifier based on humidity readings, Lithium charge level and solar production.

Anyone have any links to web resources or projects with a marine focus? Anything would be of interest as I find reverse-engineering what others have done is my most effective learning method.

Would be grateful for any pointers thanks.

 

[st599]

SignalK can also interface to MQTT - so some simple Python scripts can read from sensors such as £5 Bluetooth temperature, pressure and humidity sensors in say the fridge and inject that in to the SignalK server.

A rabbit hole to go down is the German Open Boat Projects page. They even have SignalK displays based on the £25 epaper displays used in supermarkets to display prices.

 

[Parabordi]

Take a look at Youtube 'Boating with the Baileys' - he has done some cool stuff with Grafana off the back of Signalk