Quick setup

Setup

Follow the guide once. Afterwards Voltvik reads Mopeka tanks and Victron equipment on its own. No app has to be open, and you need neither account nor fixed internet.

Current

Two ways to power the screen

Choose the solution that best fits your installation. USB-C is simplest on the bench, while the rear cable gives hidden fixed installation in a motorhome, boat or cabin.

USB-C

The simplest solution: connect Voltvik to a normal 5 V USB source. Perfect for a first test, temporary use or an installation where you already have USB power.

Rear cable

The rear cable connects directly to the battery bus with 5–23 V DC. The red conductor is plus, the black conductor is minus. Always use a 1 A fuse. Polarity protection is built in.

When using the rear cable, the recessed side button must be pressed once after every startup. A 3D-printed button that makes this easier is under development.

Power use is about 0.3 W at rest and about 0.5 W at full brightness with WiFi on.

First use

Setup in 9 steps

Keep the device powered the whole time. The phone may warn about “no internet access” when connected to the setup network. That is completely normal.

  1. Power the device

    Use USB-C or rear cable. With a rear cable: check polarity and use a 1 A fuse.

  2. Open settings

    Keep your finger on the screen for about one second. It works from any page. To exit again, swipe down.

  3. Turn on setup WiFi

    Swipe to the third settings page, NETWORK, and turn on “WiFi”. The pages are not numbered on the screen. The dots under the title show where you are, and the green one should be number three. Shortcut: hold the rear button for 2 seconds to turn WiFi off or on — but never during startup.

  4. Connect the phone to the network

    Voltvik-XXXX

    The network is called Voltvik- followed by four uppercase characters, for example Voltvik-BE84. It is open and never asks for a password. The name is also shown on the third settings page, NETWORK, on the screen. If it does not appear immediately, wait 20 seconds. Voltvik first looks for a network it already knows, and opens its own when it finds none.

  5. Open the setup page

    Type the address directly in the browser. Some phones open the page by themselves, but do not rely on it.

    192.168.4.1

    If the screen is already connected to your own WiFi, use the device’s own IP address instead. You find it on the screen, on the third settings page NETWORK.

  6. Let the device find your equipment

    Under 2 · Find your devices you will see “Nearby devices”. Voltvik listens for Bluetooth LE equipment around it and fills the list itself — strongest signal at the top. The Fill in findings button puts discovered devices in the first available slot. Mopeka Pro Check H2O goes into an available water slot; other Mopeka types go into a gas slot.

    Equipment you have already entered is shown with your own name, for example set up: Fresh water, so you can see what remains. If a device disappears from the list, the row is cleared after about 20 seconds.

  7. Enter the Victron devices

    Under 3 · Victron devices you will find six free slots. Each slot has three fields: name, MAC address and bindkey. You choose what goes in which slot — the screen figures out which page the device belongs on by itself.

    The key is not the same as the Bluetooth PIN code. See how to find the key

  8. Enter gas and water

    The tank setup has two gas bottles, Gas 1 and Gas 2, and three water tanks: Fresh water, Grey water and Black water. The names are only suggestions — you can change them to whatever suits your vehicle, boat or cabin.

    For gas, enter the BLE address, leave the medium set to propane if it is a normal gas bottle, and choose Bottle size. If you choose 6 kg, 11 kg or 14 kg, Voltvik sets the correct Empty reading and Full reading automatically. If you have another bottle or tank, choose Custom and enter the readings yourself. Under Show level as you decide whether the GAS page should show Percent or Kilo. Kilos are calculated from the level and the bottle’s net weight — it is an estimate, not weighing, so it assumes the bottle size is set correctly.

    Water tanks work as before: the Mopeka sensor is stuck under the tank and measures upward. For a normal flat-bottomed tank, leave Empty reading at 0 mm, and set Full reading to the tank’s internal height.

  9. Done — there is no save button

    Each field is saved as soon as you press Set. The device starts reading immediately, and the settings survive both restart and power loss.

“Nearby devices” has been verified with both Mopeka and Victron. If a device still does not appear — for example if it is far away or wrapped in metal — you can enter the MAC address manually. It is on the label or in VictronConnect.
Victron

Instant Readout key

Victron devices send measurement data that Voltvik can listen to, but the data is encrypted. That is why you have to fetch the correct key from VictronConnect.

This is not the Bluetooth PIN code. Each Victron device needs its own Instant Readout key — one key per device.
  1. Open VictronConnect

    Stand near the device and open the app on the phone.

  2. Connect to the device over Bluetooth

    Choose exactly the Victron device you want to enter in Voltvik.

  3. Go to Settings

    Press the cogwheel for settings.

  4. Open the menu at the top right

    Press the three dots and choose “Product info”.

  5. Enable Instant Readout

    Turn on “Instant readout via Bluetooth” if it is not already active.

  6. Show encryption details

    Press “Show” by the encryption details and copy the key.

  7. Paste into the right field

    Paste the key into the box for the same device on the Voltvik setup page.

Voltvik never connects to the Victron device. It only listens to the Bluetooth broadcast, so VictronConnect works as normal.
The screen menu

Settings on 4 pages

Swipe sideways while settings are open to move between pages.

SCREEN

Brightness
How bright the screen is
Screen off
Turns off the backlight
Back
Closes settings
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English are selected from the setup page on the device, under Language. Both the screen and setup page follow the choice, and the language changes without restarting. New devices are set to English from the factory.
Daily use

The numbers on the screen

Swipe left or right to switch between overview, charge level, DC charger, solar, gas, water and temperature. A short press on the rear button also moves to the next screen, and Auto-Swipe can turn the pages for you.

Symbol key

%
Charge level
V
Voltage
A
Current flow
W / VA
Power
Ah
Ampere-hours
kWh
Energy
% tank
Level in gas and water

Plus and minus

On battery screens, positive A means the battery is charging. Negative A means you are drawing current from the battery.

You only see pages that have data. If you have no solar charge controller, the screen skips the solar page. The WATER page shows three horizontal rows, one for each water tank.

Would you like the guide on paper?

The short version is an A6 card that fits in the glovebox or in the box with the screen. It covers the same steps as this page, and has a QR code here on the back.

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