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Epver Venus Driver

This project integrates the Epver Solarcharger with Victron Venus OS. The software runs on the Venus OS device as a Venus driver and uses the Venus dbus to read/write data for use with the Venus device.

Tested with RPi 3B - v2.91 Build 20220925213117

Install

The provided install.sh script will copy files download dependencies and should provide a running configuration. It will not setup valid configuration values so don't expect this to be plug and play:

1. enable root access on your Venus device
2. from root login on the venus root home directory
3. run

wget https://github.com/kassl-2007/dbus-epever-tracer/raw/master/install.sh

4. run

chmod +x install.sh

5. run

./install.sh

6. answer Y to the install of the driver

7. reboot your Venus device

8. connect the RS485 adapter to your Venus / Raspberry Pi now.

Hardware connection

Ad the moment the original cabel from the Epever doesn´t work, because the driver do not work on my Raspberry pi.

So I make my own cabel and used this adapter:

https://amzn.eu/d/56BrzXs

If you want to use an other adapter you have to make shure that the service startet with your adapter.

For this see:

https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/wiki/howto-add-a-driver-to-Venus#howto-add-a-driver-to-serial-starter