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Introduction

Venus OS is the Victron Energy Unix open source software distribution with a linux kernel. Read the sales pitch for its features. Go to the main readme for building.

There is also a developers mailing list. Besides on this wiki, there is more developers information available on the Open source page on Victron Live.

Venus is used in two of our commercial products:

• Color Control GX
• Venus GX

And it also runs on micro PCs such as:

• RaspberryPi
• Beaglebone Black / Enhanced

Machines

Venus can be built for multiple different hardware. The different machines conf files are in meta-victronenergy/meta-bsp/conf/machine. They are:

machine	oe version	status	notes
ccgx	jethro	in use	CCGX
beaglebone	jethro	in use	Venus GX
raspberrypi2	jethro	in use	instructions
nanopi neo	jethro	in progress	onboard emmc

More info in machines.

Besides building a full images for the machines above, we also build some Debian and Raspbian packages out of the recipes in Venus. See raspberrypi-install-venus-packages.

Generic info

• commandline introduction
• swupdate project
• root access
• howto add a driver to Venus
• howto add a new machine to venus
• release cycle
• watchdog
• data partition

Open embedded version (Rocko), branches and repos

See here: repos and their branches

Color Control GX

• ccgx booting and buttons
• ccgx serial console
• ccgx boot log
• mounting an ubi image

And there is more CCGX Information on Victron Live.

Venus GX (BeagleBone)

• project bbb page <- includes project status
• bbb hardware spec
• bbb user instructions
• details of the different peripherals:
  • bbb adc
  • bbb gpio
  • bbb canbus
• bbb boot process overview
• bbb boot log
• and many more pages, see pages on the right