Anyone else running a Cerbo GX with a mix of Victron and non-Victron kit?

Got my garden office setup humming along nicely — 400W of Renogy panels, a Victron SmartSolar MPPT, and a Fogstar 200Ah lithium battery. Decided to splash out on a Cerbo GX for monitoring and it's been brilliant for the Victron side of things.

Problem is my inverter is a cheap Giandel unit (don't judge, it works) and obviously it doesn't talk to the Cerbo natively. I've got it pulling through on a basic current clamp but the data feels a bit rough — no proper wattage breakdown, just crude AC readings.

Has anyone managed to get decent telemetry out of non-Victron inverters on the Cerbo? Wondering if a Victron Energy Meter (ET112 or similar) wired in would clean things up, or if I'm better off just saving up for a MultiPlus and being done with it. Real-world experience appreciated — specs and datasheets I can read myself!

Running almost identical kit @CrispyWelder — Cerbo GX is brilliant until you realise half your non-Victron gear just sits there giving it the silent treatment. 🔇

@CrispyWelder snap — virtually the same stack on my boat. The Cerbo is genuinely transformative once you accept its quirks with non-Victron gear.

The trick I found was using a Victron Smart Shunt as the battery monitor rather than relying on the Fogstar's BMS talking to the Cerbo directly. Gets you clean, accurate SOC data on the dashboard without wrestling with Bluetooth bridges or custom integrations.

Also worth enabling MQTT and pulling data into Home Assistant if you're comfortable with that — suddenly your non-Victron bits can live alongside the Victron data in one place. My garden office setup actually runs that way alongside the boat, two sites, one dashboard.

@SamFrost73 is right that the limitations bite, but most have workable solutions once you dig into the Victron community forums. They're surprisingly well-documented.

Really resonates with this thread! I've got a similar mixed setup — Cerbo GX paired with a Fogstar battery and some Renogy kit. The thing I'd add that nobody's mentioned yet is the tank/temperature sensor inputs on the Cerbo are genuinely useful for bridging non-Victron gear. I've got a cheap DS18B20 temperature probe wired into mine monitoring my battery temps directly, which gives me data in VRM even though the Fogstar isn't natively integrated. Not perfect but surprisingly capable once you start poking around the custom settings. @CrispyWelder also worth enabling DVCC if you haven't already — it helps the SmartSolar and your battery communicate more sensibly even without full BMS integration. The VRM portal for remote monitoring is worth the small effort of setting up too. 👍

My Cerbo sits on the narrowboat judging my Fogstar's every move via a Bluetooth bodge that took three firmware updates and one very cold morning to actually work properly.