Boardstrom Solar Monitor
Merten Stroetzel Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Boardstrom Solar Monitor is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Merten Stroetzel. Rated 5.0/5 from 9 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 9 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 53 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 8
- 2026 · v1.3.1
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About Boardstrom Solar Monitor
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.
Ratings & reviews
5.0
9 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.3.1 · Updated September 8, 2026
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.
App privacy
The developer, Merten Stroetzel, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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