Skip to content The VictronConnect app allows you to control and monitor various Victron Energy products in a camper electrical system. The app is incredibly feature-rich but can sometimes be overwhelming. In this guide, we'll cover the bare bones of what you need to know to ensure your electrical system is functioning properly. This guide assumes that all of the Victron components in your system have already been installed, set up, and programmed — for more on component programming, see our Victron Programming Guide.
This guide covers the core usefulness of the various mobile electrical systems found in our store, including:
The VictronConnect app can be installed on any Android or Apple phone or tablet right from the app store. Once installed, it can be opened by clicking on the icon, the same as any other app on your phone.
Once the app is opened, the main menu will populate with the various Victron components within range.
If there is nothing showing up here, make sure Bluetooth on the phone is on and there is power to the electrical system (turn the main battery disconnect 'on').
The battery monitor of the system will give some of the most important info about the system in regards to how full or empty the batteries are and if they are charging or discharging.
The BMV State of Charge is similar to the fuel gauge in a car. It just tells you how full your batteries are as a percentage. If it says 85%, that means you have 85% of your batteries remaining to use. As you use your batteries, this number will decrease. As you recharge, that number will increase.
The 'Current' value on the BMV tells you how many net amps you are gaining from your chargers or losing to your loads in real-time. If you have -7.5A here, this means you are losing a net of 7.5A at the moment. Here, it says 12.51A, meaning that you are charging your batteries at 12.51A.
If you are gaining 100A, and you gain that 100A for 1 hour, you will put 100 amp hours back into your batteries. If you gain that 100A for 30 minutes, you will put 50Ah back into your batteries. Use the calculator below to see this in action:
Formula: 0 Amps × 0 Hours = 0 Amp Hours
Time remaining tells you how long your battery bank will last if you are discharging at the current rate. For example: if you have a 500Ah battery bank and you are using 100A, the 'time remaining' will tell you that you have 5 hours left until your batteries are depleted. If you are actively charging, this will change to infinity, as your batteries will never deplete fully while actively charging.
The MultiPlus will show up in VictronConnect as either MultiPlus or VE.Bus Smart. The MultiPlus is responsible for converting the DC power stored in the battery bank into AC power for use at standard household outlets. It's also responsible for recharging those batteries from shore power. There are only two important features in this section of the app.
This button lets you turn the inverter on or off. The inverter takes just a bit of power to even be on, so most of the time it's a good idea to go ahead and turn the MultiPlus off when it's not being used.
This tells your MultiPlus how much power it is allowed to draw from shore power. If you are connected to a standard 15A household outlet, you would set this to a couple of amps lower so it wouldn't trip the breaker that outlet is connected to. Same story with 30A shore power at a campground — set it to 27A or so as to not trip the shore power pedestal.
If you forget to change this, it's not a huge deal — you'll just trip the breaker you're connected to.
The Orion DC-DC Charger allows you to recharge your house battery bank from the vehicle alternator. The available monitoring features here are incredibly limited, and there's not much useful here for day-to-day monitoring or control once the device is properly set up and configured. It's pretty set-it-and-forget-it.
The SmartSolar Charge Controller section of the VictronConnect app is incredibly valuable and can tell us not only about solar, but about our historical battery usage as well.
Front and center is the solar wattage. This tells us how many watts our solar panels are generating in real time. It's important to note that if our batteries are full, this number will fall to nearly zero, since there's no more power being pushed into the batteries.
This tells you how many amps the charge controller is putting out. If you don't have any loads going, nearly all of this will go into the battery bank. If you have loads going, some of this will go to the loads and some to the battery bank. You don't need to do anything to make this happen — it's automatic. Your system can charge and discharge at the same time, and all of the various components will automatically adjust as necessary.
The SmartSolar History Tab is potentially the most useful screen in the VictronConnect app. It shows solar production and battery charging stats on a day-by-day basis.
The main screen of the charge controller shows real-time solar wattage, but you may not see the full wattage of all panels installed because there's a haze in the sky, the batteries are nearly full, or some other environmental factor decreasing solar array output.
Go to the History tab and look next to P-Max (photovoltaic maximum) and you'll see the highest wattage output for each day — basically the 'high score' for the day.
The battery max voltage will give you tons of insight as to whether your batteries are getting charged every day. All of the chargers in this system are programmed to charge up to a maximum of 14.6V.
If your chargers are programmed to charge to 14.6V and you don't see 14.6V in this row, that means the batteries did not charge to full that day — and we can start asking ourselves why.
A sub-14.6V number in this row could indicate a cloudy day, a day parked in the shade, excess power usage, or — more often than not — a mix of all three.
The VictronConnect app is an indispensable tool for managing and monitoring your energy system. From battery status and charging information in the BMV State of Charge and Current values, to controlling the MultiPlus inverter, to optimizing solar utilization with the SmartSolar Charge Controller, this app offers a comprehensive suite of features. Historical data in the SmartSolar History Tab and battery max voltage trends empower you to make informed decisions about your energy consumption and generation — turning the complex world of energy management into something accessible and manageable.
