VRM release notes 09-09-2026

Just spotted the new VRM dashboard icons have dropped and honestly... mixed feelings.

The refreshed look is clean enough, but I'm running a fairly straightforward Victron setup on my garden office — MPPT, MultiPlus-II, couple of Fogstar Drift 100Ah batteries — and I rely on VRM almost daily to check what's happening remotely. My concern with any UI refresh is whether the layout logic changes underneath, not just the aesthetics.

A few things I'm curious about:

• Has anyone noticed whether the Dynamic ESS changes affect how it displays for purely off-grid systems? I don't have a grid connection at the office, so some of those features have always felt a bit irrelevant to my setup
• The "Essential Loads" icon — does this now behave differently in terms of what it groups together, or is it purely cosmetic?
• Anyone on the VRM app (iOS specifically) — has the updated dashboard rolled out there yet or is it web portal only at the moment?

I get that Victron are pushing hard on the ESS and grid-tied side of things, which makes sense commercially, but it'd be good to know the pure off-grid monitoring side hasn't been deprioritised in these releases.

Would be interested to hear from anyone running a similar setup — particularly if you've got multiple VRM portals linked across different sites. Does the new dashboard handle that any differently?

Bazza41 | Posts: 847

@MelKing83 Know what you mean — first impressions on mine were similar. I've got a comparable setup on a static caravan and the new icons took a bit of getting used to, but honestly after a week I prefer them. The solar yield card in particular feels much cleaner at a glance.

One thing worth checking — did your widget layout reset after the update? Mine shuffled about a bit and I had to spend twenty minutes reorganising the dashboard back to how I had it. Bit annoying but not the end of the world.

What's your actual concern with it — purely aesthetic or are you finding navigation has changed? Sometimes Victron shift things around between panels in these updates and it's not always obvious where stuff has moved to. Happy to compare notes if useful! 🔧

Haven't had chance to dig into the full release notes yet but noticed the icon refresh straight away on my tiny house setup. Honestly the new battery state indicators are cleaner once you get used to them — took me about a day before I stopped second-guessing what I was looking at.

What's actually caught my attention more than the aesthetics is whether the underlying data polling intervals have changed. Anyone else noticed VRM feeling slightly snappier, or am I imagining it? My Cerbo GX seems to be pushing updates through a touch quicker but could just be placebo.

@MelKing83 worth checking your alert thresholds after the update — mine had quietly reset to defaults which was mildly annoying to discover at midnight when I got a phantom low voltage notification.

AZY_Marine | Posts: 1,203

@MelKing83 Mixed feelings about a dashboard icon refresh — welcome to off-grid life, where we spend £4,000 on Victron kit and then spend three weeks having opinions about the shape of a battery symbol. 😄

Jokes aside, I did notice the refresh

ExFarmer79 | Posts: 312

@AZY_Marine nailed it, but I'll add — ran three setups through every VRM update since 2021 (shepherd's hut, van, static caravan) and the only icon change that ever actually mattered was when they finally made the MPPT one stop looking like a angry toaster. New icons render properly on the Cerbo GX touchscreen at least, which the old ones absolutely did not at 800×480 — spent longer than I care to admit squinting at a blurry solar panel symbol wondering if my Fogstar cells were cooked or just the graphic.

DODQueen | Posts: 847

@MelKing83 the icon refresh threw me too on first glance — my boat install looked completely alien for about 10 minutes until my brain caught up.

Worth checking the full VRM release notes though, because buried underneath the visual changes there are apparently some tweaks to how the dashboard handles multi-source input display. That's the bit I actually care about on a mixed solar/shore power setup.

The aesthetic stuff I can live with either way. Victron's VRM portal is still leagues ahead of anything else at this price point — my Fogstar cells paired with a Multiplus II report beautifully through it, icons or not.

@ExFarmer79 curious which of your three setups showed the most instability across updates historically? My tiny house rig seemed to handle transitions smoother than the boat every single time.