Cerbo GX for under £150?? Installing Venus OS for your Raspberry Pi | DIY Cerbo GX Pt.1

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In this video, we're going to be starting part one of a three-part series where we'll be installing a Rasberry Pi system with Venus OS. This will give us a fully functional "Cerbo GX" for around the cost of £150.
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[@FrankKinlan888]

An RPI Zero 2W seems to work too. The syntax for your command line has to be exact in the part 2 video.

[@tiborchren]

I was very interested and pleased to hear what you said at the beginning, that in the case of offline use, the Rasberry Pi with Venus OS stores data on the SD card and when it comes back online, it transfers all the offline data from offline use back to the system and doesn't keep it on the SD card, so it works very efficiently with offline data. So even in the case with offline use somewhere away from the internet, or an internet failure at home, the solar monitoring history would not be lost, if that were confirmed it would be great. Could you please test this and show it in some other video, please? This is exactly what I've been looking for a long time, that which solar monitoring system will allow me to have full time monitoring with history for online and offline use of a portable solar power station.

[@donnanorth7324]

Please show a full installation of Venus OS without the RPi ever being hooked to a Victron device.

[@americannumber2]

you need to correct the title pt.3 is pt1?

[@offgrid_power]

Thanks for picking that up! :)

[@NigelM18]

I tried this pi idea and mine ran fine..... for about 5 minutes then it would crash. I have a video about it. I gave up on it and ordered a cerbo. I still dont have it yet though.

[@offgrid_power]

That’s a pain. Hopefully this one of ours will be stable! 🤞🏼

[@motorbikewhisperer]

@@offgrid_power I've run one for nearly a year now and it's been fine. However I do plan to switch to SSD instead of SD as the SD cards don't last forever.