victronvenusclient 0.1.1

An async MQTT Victron Venus OS client library.

victronvenusclient

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Table of Contents

• Installation
• License

Introduction

VenusVictronClient is a an asynchronous library that uses MQTT to communicate with devices running Victron's Venus OS, including the Victron CCGX, Cerbo GX and Ekrano GX.

The source code is available on GitHub.

DISCLAIMER: This is a third-party library and not a product of Victron.

Installation

pip install victronvenusclient

Viewer

The package has a viewer application written using Tk that allows you to inspect the various metrics and devices. To run the viewer:

python3 -m victronvenusclient.utils.view_metrics

The viewer should also provide a good example of how to use the library.

Limitations and Known Issues

• The current library has been tested with only a single configuration of a Victron installation. It might not have all the metrics that are relevant to other installations - please see [Logging Issues] on how to get your installation supported.

• The library also only supports retrieving data, changing settings has not yet been implemented.

Logging Issues

Issues can be logged on GitHub.

If you need support for your configuration or additional metrics you can dump the full mqtt structure from your device using the included dump_mqtt utility and attach the file to the issue:

# Dumps a full MQTT structure into fullvictrondump.txt
python3 -m victronvenusclient.utils.dump_mqtt > fullvictrondump.txt.

# If you need to specify the connection details command line help is available:
python3 -m victronvenusclient.utils.dump_mqtt --help

License

victronvenusclient is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.