Custom dashboards for your Victron VRM system

/04 — ANYTHING YOU LIKE

Monitor everything that matters — on one page

A custom dashboard isn’t a fixed product — it’s a page we design around your operation. Everything on our own van dashboard is an example you can see working today: live solar flow, battery state, tank levels, a £-savings meter at our real tariff, engine-charging hours, even a 7-day solar forecast calibrated to the van’s own history.

Yours might add site totals, alerts when a battery runs low, a generator-run log, this week vs last week, occupancy, temperatures — whatever information actually helps you decide things. That’s the “information efficiency” win: one glance instead of six logins.

/06 — FOR VICTRON INSTALLERS

Installers: give your customers a dashboard VRM can’t

You fit brilliant systems — then hand customers the same VRM portal as everyone else. There’s no white-label VRM (the long-requested “Dealer ID” branding feature never shipped), and the Fleet dashboard only unlocks at ten-plus sites.

We build the dashboard layer for you: your branding, your customer’s layout, hosted and supported by us, or set up on a subdomain of your own website — you stay the installer and the hero. It’s a clean add-on to quote on every job, and a reason customers pick you over the next quote. And we’re a Victron Recommended Software Integrator — listed in Victron’s own network of vetted integrators, building on the official VRM API.

We’re happy working behind the scenes or alongside you — talk to us about a partner arrangement.

/07 — ON YOUR OWN WEBSITE

Your brand, your domain — your dashboard can live on your own website

Everywhere else on this page we say the same thing: we build it, we host it, we look after it, and you get a link. That stays the default, and for most owners it’s the easy answer. But if you run a business — an installer, a hire fleet, a marina, a holiday site — there’s a second route worth knowing about: your dashboard can live on your own website, ideally on a fresh subdomain such as monitor.yourcompany.co.uk or dash.yourcompany.co.uk, linked straight into your main site’s navigation.

Your part is three small jobs, none of them technical heroics. One: create a VRM access token in your own VRM account — a two-minute job, and we send a plain-English walkthrough. We recommend creating it under a ‘monitor only’ VRM user (which VRM genuinely supports, per site), so the token can only ever read data. Two: add the subdomain in your hosting control panel — one click in cPanel, Site Tools, Plesk and the like. Three: give us FTP or SFTP access scoped to just that subdomain’s folder. We do everything else — design, build and deployment.

Why bother? Because the ownership sums change:

• Your address, end to end. Customers click from your menu to monitor.yourcompany.co.uk and back without ever leaving your domain — the same your-brand-only finish as our white-label monitoring, on hosting you already pay for.
• The token is yours and stays server-side. It sits in one server-side file the dashboard reads; it never appears in the page code and is never visible to visitors — and you can revoke it in VRM whenever you like.
• Our access is fenced in. The FTP or SFTP login only reaches the new subdomain’s folder — we never need, and never ask for, the rest of your site. Revoke that too, any time.
• Room to grow. Extra pages, extra dashboards and extra features can be added there over time as your needs change.
• Long-term ownership. The dashboard sits on your hosting, at your domain — if our arrangement ever ended, the files would still be sitting on your server.

One honest requirement: the dashboard needs a small server-side relay to keep that token out of the page — a small PHP file, which nearly all ordinary shared hosting runs as standard. If yours can’t, nothing is lost: we simply host it for you instead, exactly as described above.

And this isn’t theory — it’s how we run our own. The live 365 Crafter van dashboards further up this page work on precisely this architecture: a static page, one server-side file holding a read-only token, and a small relay. If all you want is a simple widget on an existing page, our guide to embedding VRM on your website may be enough; if you want the full custom dashboard under your own roof, this is the route. Tell us which way you lean when you book a free demo — either answer is fine by us.

/09 — BEYOND VICTRON

Not just Victron — if it has a feed, we can usually dash it

Victron’s VRM API is where we started (our own van runs on it), but the same approach works for most systems that expose an API, a data feed or an export: other solar and battery brands, weather stations, tank and level sensors, heating, EV chargers, network kit — even business numbers like bookings or sales alongside your energy data.

One screen, many sources — that’s usually where dashboards earn their keep. Tell us what you run and we’ll tell you honestly what’s feasible before any money changes hands. This pairs naturally with the custom software and AI systems we build.

/10 — GPS & ROUTE TRACKING

Moving system? Put it on a live map — and keep every route

If your Victron system moves, it can carry GPS — a third-party USB receiver on the Cerbo GX (around £18 from UK retailers at the time of writing), the GX LTE 4G with its optional GPS antenna, or a boat’s existing NMEA 2000 GPS fed in over VE.Can. Credit where it’s due: once a fix is flowing, Victron’s own VRM portal already gives you a map of all your installations, a drawable geofence that alarms on exit and on signal loss, and a downloadable position history — those are Victron’s features, and they’re good.

What we add is the layer that makes it yours:

• A live moving map, on your branded dashboard. Position streams in over the same feed that drives the live demos above — near-live, typically updating every second or two on the move.
• Route history that stays yours. VRM keeps its detailed data for at least six months, not forever; our dashboards archive every track themselves, so your routes never expire.
• Blackspots that heal. The GX buffers its logs on board and uploads them when the connection returns — a signal gap pauses the live pin, never the route.
• One van or a whole fleet. The same build tracks a single camper, a boat, or every vehicle in a hire fleet on one map.

And one honest sentence for anyone thinking ‘theft tracker’: it isn’t one — it runs off the very battery bank it monitors, isn’t concealed and isn’t insurer-recognised, so a dedicated tracker still owns that job, with VRM’s geofence and signal-loss alarm the honest next-best thing. For the hardware choices, the gotchas and the limits, read the full GPS tracking guide — or book a free demo and we’ll talk it through.