Going to test this evening!
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Wow! Subscribed!
All because of the new screens.
Man, I love it!
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this is awesome.
now I have a mobile display.
thank you Victron
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Very easy to install and added huge value…
Victron may have killed the volume sales for their displays but are customer focused so service over profit motive is excellent. Yes, the displays are needed for many instances but this is a game changer for many of us.
Just one thing I wonder about, NOTHING to do with Victron …
Friends of hours bought a new phone charger.
Put phone on charge on dining room table (big thick wood one) and went out for the evening.
Came back few hours later to be met with total chaos … Firetrucks blocking the street.
Half their house was burnt down.
Since then I wondered:
How safe is it to keep a phone 24/7/365 on a charger?
How long could it last?
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Thanks @TTT - I’m now having to question the meaning of life… again! 
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It depends on a couple of factors, but in general: don’t. Keeping a phone battery at 100% will also quickly destroy the battery (even without igniting). The solution is to find something that can operate without the battery.
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Or just run the phone or tablet from a timer for an hour or two per day.
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AliExpress has plenty of POE powered Android tablets
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On my not so very new samsung, under battery management settings you have the option to “save battery” or something like that and it only allows to battery to be charged to 85% in order to extend battery life. Seems like a safe SOC to keep the battery at.
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Any ones you’d specifically recommend?
I have not bought any first hand, but they often come up on the home automation boards.
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This is very cool, but how it is different than opening the GX device’s console over LAN? Then you keep the ability of the device to do anything else, but you can just leave it on the console if you want to.
For me, that is ironically the deal breaker too. I want to be able to use the device to access Home Assistant as well. So I’ll probably stick to just running GUI-v2 over a browser alongside the HA app.
On that topic, something that works well for me, is HomeHabit. This has a “Web” widget where you can embed a webpage inside a page in your dashboard. It supports both GUIv1 and GUIv2 (just enable the javascript option). This allows me to mix the Victron GUI with Home Assistant widgets, even on the same page.
I even have HomeHabit running on an Android TV. It was a pain to set up (had to sideload it, it is not designed to run on a TV), and then I had to use a mouse and a keyboard to configure it (it is meant for a device with a touch screen), but it came out very nice in the end.
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Jip, what I default too.
Have a permanent link on my phone too to see the new and old GUI.
And always open on browser too.
But this feature now, man, they truly open up the possibilities. Will see what other clever okes do with that feature into the future.