Setup Guides
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Finding your Victron Instant Readout key
Victron encrypts its Bluetooth broadcast per device, which is a good decision that leaves you with one thing to copy across. It takes about a minute once you know where to look.
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Flashing a Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC, start to finish
The cheapest sensor worth owning needs fifteen minutes of setup before any hub can read it. It is done from a browser, it is hard to break, and here is every step.
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What we can read from a sensor, and what we cannot
Some sensors shout their readings to anyone listening. Others hold them behind a connection, a pairing, or an encryption key. That difference decides whether a device works with us.
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Why your sensor drops out at the back of the rig
Thirty feet is the number on the box. An RV is a metal tube full of appliances, and the real number is smaller. Where to put the hub, and what to do about a long fifth-wheel.
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Setting up a Govee H5075 for RV monitoring
The cheapest way into RV monitoring is a sensor you can buy anywhere. Here is what the H5075 broadcasts, what we read from it, and the one setting that stops it working.