I would add though that the philosophy and conceptual design of the Victron components is outstanding. ![]() It seems to require randomly switching settings on and off until it works, and then it works until it doesn’t, again for often unknown reasons, and then once again just randomly “doing stuff” until it starts working again. I must say this appears to be an extremely fragile and unreliable system. While in this state there is no way to access Remote Console. But it appears that if the Bluetooth link between the iPhone/iPad app gets broken, there is no way to pair them again unless you remove the BT dongle and start from scratch (power down/up etc). One other potentially significant observation again not conclusive because of the apparent randomness of cause and effect. So for now I’ve concluded the dongle must be working. I cannot be certain of cause/effect because there seemed to be a great deal of randomness to the whole process. Also required was some combination of re-booting the Cerbo and/or powering it off on on (pulling the fuse). However, about 15 minutes after plugging the BT dongle into the Cerbo, I did see it show up. It did not show up on the Cerbo by itself. I find this whole thing puzzling and perplexing - how can a device not know that something is connected to it?! However, I will make an observation - there is one Ruuvi that is in a freezer outside on the dock, about 25’ away from the Cerbo. How would I determine if it was correctly installed and working correctly. My concern is perhaps the new dongle is not working. I can see the 4 hardwired temperature sensors and the same 2 Ruuvis as before. The various locations on the Cerbo look exactly as they did before. I do not see this dongle as an entity, and don’t know where- all to look. I did as per my description above, but I don’t know if there are some other steps. My question was about how to install the dongle. Being advertised as long-range was attractive due to the mounting location of my Cerbo and location of the last Ruuvi. I got the exact same one that Guy tried and was successful with. I read in several places including this thread that the BT radio was not very strong in the Cerbo and it was better to install a dongle. I can see all of them through the Ruuvi app on my iPhone/iPad. The Victron VE.direct Bluetooth dongle is not designed to connect to a CCGX or Venus GX, it is only for devices like MPPT, Phoenix inverter or BMV-700/702.īluetooth on a GX Device currently servers two purposes:ġ) you can configure the ethernet and wifi networking, using the VictronConnect app.Ģ) you can read temperature and humidity from the Ruuvi wireless sensors (requires Venus OS v2.80 or later). Victron VE.Direct Bluetooth Dongle won’t work for this If you tried another one, and it works, please let everyone know by posting here - thanks! Whilst finding a compatible WiFi dongle can be difficult, Bluetooth is -luckily- different. But our aim was just to test what works and what not, so we stopped there, and did not, and are not aiming to in the near future either, spent time on making them work. Some might benefit from a newer kernel, or newer library of linux-included firmware files. Reasons for them not working differed per unit. Most or even all Bluetooth 4, or 4.2, did work. ![]() Ideapro USB bluetooth adapter 4.0 - tested by see belowĪnd some comments on what doesn't work: several Bluetooth 5 dongles that we tested do not work.Kinivo BTD-400 - tested by, see below.Insignia (NS-PCY5BMA2) for $14.99, tested by, see below.List of dongles tested by others that work: List of tested dongles by Victron, that work:Īll above list was tested from -17 to 70C. More details about that on in the GX product range datasheet.įor now we won't be stocking them ourselves, since that will only make them rather expensive for anyone to buy whilst freely available on the internet for just a few USD up to 10 or 20 USD, without ourselves, and our dealer network, to be in the middle. Why the Cerbo GX? Thats because even though the Cerbo GX features built-in bluetooth, that doesn't work reliably enough. To use mainly on a CCGX, Venus GX, and also the Cerbo GX. The main purpose of this list is to guide which USB Bluetooth dongle buy and use to get wireless temperature monitoring using the Ruuvi wireless temperature sensors. Generally speaking, any USB Bluetooth dongle featuring Bluetooth 4.0 will (most likely) work on GX device. In this post, I have listed all dongles tested by Victron, as well as others.
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