Charles_Gibbs

He he he. Well 200K in Victron stuff was for the wifes salon as the power consumption had us putting power ona weekly basis,(prepaid). So she is fed up with pc stuff and could not be bothered, me? Well, I want to see what is going on, so hence the battel. I have a good pc but it is for Audio work and that is in the studio, this hunky crappy is in the livingroom next to the Victron stuff, (Ons bly in 'n vuurhotjie boksie.....) So no place for a garage and so on. I will just have to see what I can manage.... Thanks @plonkster

I'm just tired of windows and want to run on linux, I have a pissy laptop, and the only thing running on it is windows, Netflix and popcorn time, and then the Victron stuff, but it is so slow, 2GB ram and an e1 AMD APU, I think that is where the problem is.... But have had it with windows. Such a resource hog....

Thanks @plonkster I will try some stuff and get back to you, Why did you stop your research if I may ask, are there that few people that work on linux ? ubuntu? Regards Charles

@plonkster Thanks for the quick response. Yeah! I'm a born and bred VP (Vaal Pens) So blou tot die dag wat ek vrek! Because I am not a draad sitter........ Poor me I know! So I can run Linux and then I will have to load VM software to run the other stuff in. I would like to make up a Pi later on in the year to run the venus stuff, for now I need something else, Windows is a resource hog and my internet is slowed down so much by it that it mkes me sick, with all the background updates and whatnot. It seems that these VM's laps after a while and need to be re-installed and I was looking to get away from that? As I am not a Linux Buff I thought I would come ask for help here. Thanks Kind Regards Charles

Hi All. Sorry to ask here, and I know this post is a couple of years old BUT..... I posted some thing in my profile setup thing and obviously I fluffed something up....... Having that out of the way, I am faceing the same dilema as Jaco de Jong, I have reached the point that I want to say cheers to windows, I am a total noob when it comes to Linux but looks like I do not have a choice, I have had my solar setup now for roughly 5 years and alot of it is Victron. Is there a way in which I can run the Victon VE Connect and Victron Connect app on linux, I do see that Plonkster an Jaco talked about it but see no conclusion, was there ever any headway made on that topic? I have it seems been able to get a blog up for that so if someone can help that would be great. Regards Charles from Namibia