Signalk Icon on B&G Zeus
There is a Signalk icon that shows on our B&G Zeus screen but it's just a white page when I open it. Is it supposed to do something?
There is also a Victron page and it shows all our Cerbo info.
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It’s supposed to show the sk admin ui
Maybe I'm not letting it sit there long enough.
Weird, on my Zeus 3S, I only get a blank white page.
That can be due to security settings which would require the virtual keyboard. The html5 environment is quite picky from my experience.
You can have other tiles there as well if you want. See https://github.com/htool/signalk-mfd-plugin
hi, I also noticed this thing since I use signalk in Venus Large in the Cerbo GX and I connected the Cerbo via ethernet to the Zeus 3S. It is convenient to see the Cerbo information (both electrical and tanks) in the chartplotter. It would be fantastic if through the SK app that appears on the Zeus you could activate an App installed on SK!!
I tried to ask Victron support about this icon that appeared in the apps visible in the Zeus, but as soon as they understood that I was talking about SignalK they sent me here with the usual sentence "Signalk is not a software managed by Victron". Do you think it is plausible to think that Victron could solve the issue?
no, this is 100% on the SK side
the mechanism is works so that
- SK server advertises "here's an address for a webapp, use this icon for it"
- MFD shows the button
- user presses the button => MFD tries to open the webpage
the webpage is the SK Admin view, and for some reason it does not
we'd first need to figure out why it does not and then fix the issue, provided it is fixable with a reasonable amount of work
..or we could add a bit of configuration so that SK server would advertise another (or several) webapps like instrumentpanel or KIP
and the authors of these might need to figure out if and how the webapp works on each different MFD
which is a bit hard if you don't happen to have MFDs in your home lab
here's a tidbit related to debuggin MFD webapps https://github.com/victronenergy/venus-html5-app?tab=readme-ov-file#34-simulatingdebugging-mfd-ui-locally
GitHub
GitHub - victronenergy/venus-html5-app: HTML5 App including Javascr...
HTML5 App including Javascript library that communicates with Venus OS over MQTT websockets - victronenergy/venus-html5-app
so doable, but definitely not something Victron would invest their developer time in
I would gladly help with testing, but unfortunately I can't program
I have also noticed this on my Zeus 2.
How is signalk advertising itself? Is it over the N2k? Or is it over the IP network?
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