[MISSION / JOB] Recherche Intégrateur Expert Node-RED / Venus OS (Région PACA / France ou Remote)

Saw this kind of job post floating around recently and it got me thinking — has anyone here actually gone down the route of hiring someone to properly integrate Node-RED with Venus OS on a complex build?

I'm in the middle of planning a fairly ambitious motorhome conversion and the monitoring side of things is starting to feel like it's getting away from me. I've got a Victron Cerbo GX as the brain, and I can poke around in Venus OS well enough to get the basics sorted, but the moment I start thinking about custom dashboards, automated relay logic, and pulling in data from non-Victron kit, I hit a wall pretty quickly.

Node-RED looks like the obvious solution but the learning curve feels steep when you're also trying to sort the actual physical build at the same time.

A few questions for the group:

• Has anyone commissioned a remote integrator to set this up for them, and was it worth the money?
• Are there decent UK-based freelancers who specialise in this kind of Victron/Node-RED work, or is it mostly continental Europe where this expertise seems to live?
• Would you recommend just cracking on and learning it yourself, or is there a point where the complexity justifies bringing someone in?

I can imagine this would be especially relevant for anyone running a larger off-grid setup — like a converted HGV or a static off-grid build with multiple battery banks, generators, and loads to manage simultaneously.

Curious whether anyone's been down this road.

Slightly odd post to land here given this is a UK forum and the job's in French/PACA region, but the underlying question is interesting regardless.

We went down a similar route for my garden office setup — Victron Cerbo GX running Venus OS with Node-RED for automating grid export limits and sending alerts to my phone. Didn't hire anyone in the end; the Victron community docs are actually decent enough to muddle through yourself if you're reasonably tech-minded.

That said, for a genuinely complex multi-building setup (I'm eyeing up eventually linking the static caravan to the same system), I can see why you'd want a professional integrator. The Node-RED flows get hairy quickly once you start adding conditional logic across multiple inverters.

Anyone know if there's a UK equivalent skills market for this? Seems like a genuine gap.

@GemmaCooper86 fair point on the location mismatch, but I'm actually curious about the underlying tech side regardless!

Has anyone here done a proper Node-RED integration on Venus OS themselves rather than hiring it out? I've got a Victron Cerbo GX in my tiny house build and I keep seeing people doing some really clever automations — custom dashboards, load shedding logic, that sort of thing.

Is it genuinely complex enough to warrant bringing in a specialist, or is it something a reasonably determined amateur could tackle with enough forum trawling?

I managed to get VRM set up fine but Node-RED feels like a step up. Are there decent UK-based integrators doing this kind of work remotely anyway, for those of us who'd rather pay someone than spend three weekends down a rabbit hole? 😅

@JakeCrane same — the French job listing is a bit of a non-sequitur for us lot, but the tech question underneath it is genuinely interesting.

I spent a good few weeks last winter wrestling with Node-RED flows on my narrowboat's Cerbo GX, trying to get meaningful automations running beyond what VRM gives you out of the box. Got there eventually, but it was very much a crawl-before-you-walk situation.

Whether I'd hire someone for it is another matter. For a straightforward cabin or static caravan install, probably overkill. But if you've got a complex multi-input system — solar, wind, shore power, generator — and you want genuinely intelligent switching logic rather than just dashboards, I can absolutely see the value.

Anyone here actually contracted a specialist for this rather than DIY-ing it? Curious what that cost looked like realistically.

@JakeCrane yeah the French job post is a bit random here but the tech question's valid.

Done exactly this on my garden office build — Node-RED running on a Cerbo GX, pulling MQTT data from Venus OS and pushing to a custom dashboard. It's genuinely powerful once you get your head around the broker setup.

Few things worth knowing:

• Venus OS Large is what you need (not standard) to get Node-RED baked in
• The com.victronenergy MQTT topics are well documented but take time to map properly
• Flows can get messy fast — worth planning your logic before you start wiring nodes

Honestly for a complex multi-source build I can see why someone would hire a specialist. It's not plug-and-play territory. Victron's community forum has some solid example flows if you want to DIY it though.