Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This is a "Learn with me" video. It's slow, pondering and scattered. It's showing the process of learning as much as showing what I learned. Soon, a concise video showing how to time shift will be uploaded. A link to that video will go here once it's ready.
"Time Shifting" is the process of using cheap electricity rates to charge the batteries, and then using the batteries to power our loads during peak electricity rates. This video shows what it took to figure out how to do this using a Victron Quattro, Cerbo GX and the android apps via the MK3 adapter.
Interview with Victron's Lance re: Time Shifting and More:
youtu.be/ZntrN-J2xkQ
0:00 - I bought a boat!
1:02 - Editor's Preamble
2:56 - What is Time Shifting?
4:28 - Trying this Mac Thing; No Love
7:15 - New Phone, who dis?
8:09 - A delay and learning
8:47 - USB on a Windows VM - True USB Encapsulation
10:20 - Time-Shifting, aka "Load-Shifting"
11:18 - Locked out of VRM, 2FA Woes
12:15 - Configuring Victron from a Windows Virtual Machine; No Love
13:45 - "Conditional AC Input" - Victron's name for Time-Shifting
16:12 - Using OTG + MK3 configure the Quattro; No Love
19:40 - Updating The Quattro Firmware
20:35 - Finally Talking to Quattro! A Kitty Interlude...
21:28 - Quattro Reset to Defaults - Can't reconfigure!
22:36 - Back to Windows (VM) and MK3 - More Failure.
27:00 - Going to Bare-Iron Windows - Some success!
30:30 - Back to the Android App - Some more success!
33:05 - Time of Day? Back to VE Configure on Windows...
35:55 - Setting up the ESS Assistant
37:57 - Using the Cerbo GX for Time-Of-Day Config; Success!
40:55 - Next Video Plans
This is a "Learn with me" video. It's slow, pondering and scattered. It's showing the process of learning as much as showing what I learned. Soon, a concise video showing how to time shift will be uploaded. A link to that video will go here once it's ready.
"Time Shifting" is the process of using cheap electricity rates to charge the batteries, and then using the batteries to power our loads during peak electricity rates. This video shows what it took to figure out how to do this using a Victron Quattro, Cerbo GX and the android apps via the MK3 adapter.
Interview with Victron's Lance re: Time Shifting and More:
youtu.be/ZntrN-J2xkQ
0:00 - I bought a boat!
1:02 - Editor's Preamble
2:56 - What is Time Shifting?
4:28 - Trying this Mac Thing; No Love
7:15 - New Phone, who dis?
8:09 - A delay and learning
8:47 - USB on a Windows VM - True USB Encapsulation
10:20 - Time-Shifting, aka "Load-Shifting"
11:18 - Locked out of VRM, 2FA Woes
12:15 - Configuring Victron from a Windows Virtual Machine; No Love
13:45 - "Conditional AC Input" - Victron's name for Time-Shifting
16:12 - Using OTG + MK3 configure the Quattro; No Love
19:40 - Updating The Quattro Firmware
20:35 - Finally Talking to Quattro! A Kitty Interlude...
21:28 - Quattro Reset to Defaults - Can't reconfigure!
22:36 - Back to Windows (VM) and MK3 - More Failure.
27:00 - Going to Bare-Iron Windows - Some success!
30:30 - Back to the Android App - Some more success!
33:05 - Time of Day? Back to VE Configure on Windows...
35:55 - Setting up the ESS Assistant
37:57 - Using the Cerbo GX for Time-Of-Day Config; Success!
40:55 - Next Video Plans
