chargeman/README.md

chargeman

Home battery controller for Victron (Venus OS). Controls the inverter via D-Bus (AC power setpoint, feed-in/charge enable), uses P1 meter data and the Tibber hourly price via MQTT, and publishes state to MQTT (Home Assistant discovery).

Run

• Install on the Venus OS device under /data/chargeman, copy config.ini.example to config.ini and set the Tibber key.
• Init script: chargeman (start|stop|restart|status), runs chargeman.py with /data as working directory.
• MQTT broker: env CHARGEMAN_MQTT_BROKER (default 10.2.0.15) and CHARGEMAN_MQTT_PORT (default 1883).

Chargemodes (avr95/battery/chargemode/set)

0 floating, 1 charge manual, 2 charge max, 3 discharge manual, 4 discharge max, 5 charge cheap (Tibber), 6 balance dyn, 7 charge dyn, 8 discharge dyn.