Alarms on your phone, a home-screen widget, a solar forecast for the days ahead, and a DIY radar tank sensor. Bluetooth or Cerbo GX. No cloud, no account.
Boardstrom turns your iPhone or iPad into a live dashboard for your Victron Energy system.
Open the app and instantly see state of charge, solar input, battery power, and loads, read directly from your Victron devices over Bluetooth or from your Cerbo GX / Venus OS over WiFi. No VRM, no account, no cloud. Just the numbers that matter, the moment you check your van, boat, or cabin.
TWO WAYS TO CONNECT
• Bluetooth: reads the Instant Readout broadcasts of SmartShunt and BMV monitors, SmartSolar MPPT chargers, Orion XS and Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC chargers, Phoenix inverters, MultiPlus / Quattro inverter-chargers, and SmartLithium batteries.
• Cerbo GX / Venus OS: connects to the GX on your local network and shows the whole system, including per-charger solar, GX temperature and tank sensors, and your shunt's lifetime history.
MORE THAN VICTRON
Ruuvi temperature sensors, Mopeka tank sensors, Jetfoiler batteries, and the open-source Boardstrom radar tank sensor appear right on the dashboard next to your Victron data.
WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE
• Live dashboard for one Victron device
• Real-time state of charge, solar, battery, and load power
• 1-hour history chart
• Home-screen widget with your last readings
• Demo mode to explore without hardware
• Works fully offline. Everything stays on your phone.
BOARDSTROM PRO (optional one-time purchase)
• Every device on your system at once, over Bluetooth and GX
• Full history: 12-hour, 24-hour, and 7-day charts that persist across restarts
• Energy page: daily solar yield and battery in/out, a multi-day charge forecast, and a battery health card with cycles, deepest discharge, and time since the last full charge
• Local alarms for low charge, voltage, temperature, and tank levels, checked on your phone with no cloud
• Multiple systems: keep van, boat, and cabin apart
• Per-charger solar tiles, sensor graphs, CSV export
• Boardstrom Remote (closed beta): see your system from anywhere, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud account
• Future Pro features included at no extra cost
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Boardstrom reads your devices locally on your phone. There are no servers and no account to create. Your data leaves the phone only if you turn on an optional feature that needs it: the solar forecast sends your location to a weather service, and remote viewing relays your data end-to-end encrypted to the phones you pair.
Boardstrom is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Victron Energy B.V. "Victron" and related product names are trademarks of their respective owner and are used here only to describe device compatibility.
Got this for my van last week and honestly what a relief I’ve had a Victron MPPT charging my house battery for a couple years and a BMV – 712 to keep an eye on the SOC, but that tiny BMV screen has always been kind of a nightmare. You had to actually climb in the back, lean down, hit the button buttons in the right order, and then squint at a two line displayed to figure out what was going on. Half the time I just give up and assume things were fine. I keep an old iPad in the van anyway as a kind of dashboard for music and stuff’. So I installed in Boardstrom on it and it stuck up where I can see it from the driver seat. Now I just glanced over and see everything at once. Battery percentage, voltage, what the solar panels are actually producing right then. Normal crawling around the thing I really like is how little fuss it is. No account, no sign-up, no cloud something or other. It just picks up Bluetooth from the Victron stuff and it shows it. Set it up once and forget about it. simple, does what it says, and feel solid. If you have a Victron in your van and you’ve been suffering through that little BMV screen, just get it.
Excellent Victron dashboard app
Maqra123
I mainly use it with my Cerbo over WiFi, and the new inverter on/off switch is exactly what I wanted. I also like that Boardstrom works both ways: Cerbo/WiFi for bigger systems, or direct Bluetooth for smaller SmartShunt/SmartSolar setups without a Cerbo. Clean, useful, and well worth upgrading to Pro.
Auto-ranging support for the Boardstrom radar tank sensor (deep tanks to 3 m), QR-code pairing for Remote, a redesigned Settings with drill-in pages, and the usual fixes.
Version 1.3.1
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Information
Seller
Merten Stroetzel
Size
55.2 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
