oh it works! Van just got a little bit smarter. That is awesome!
what's going on guys welcome back to the channel today I have a really exciting product for you
I haven't done a Renogy review in a while and all my equipment is working great except for
solar panels almost blew off the roof this summer it turns out one of the screws came
loose I didn't have a lock washer on it and we had a massive Windstorm driving down the
highway and they kind of like didn't come off or anything it just kind of like popped out
um so I mean it's not that bad but it's totally my fault everything else is working great but
Renogy just came out with a new product called Renogy one and I'm so stoked to review this and
install it and tell you guys everything about it so without further Ado let's get into it
foreign be sure to check out my solar system guide I will link it below it's perfect for
amateurs or anyone who requires a little bit of help installing a solar system for off-grid living
also use the discount code made to travel when you go to check out off the Renogy website if
you're thinking about purchasing the Renogy one M1 controller or any other Energy Products so this is
the Renogy one M1 this is like the main controller and what this is designed to do is basically
provide Smart Energy control for your camper van for your trailer for your RV for your boat any
for your house even anything you control via solar power this is going to provide Smart Control this
controller hooks up to almost every Bluetooth device that Renogy offers including batteries
charge controllers inverters and almost all of my products are Bluetooth so I'm very excited
to get this installed get it connected and to be able to just Mount this screen I'm not sure where
it's going yet but to be able to just mount it on the wall and see exactly what's going on in
this solar system will be so convenient it looks like there's also three switches on the side here
that you can also wire in so you can use that for lights fan really anything you want this is just
the controller so this is just to start to be honest you have the smart plug which you also
hook up via Bluetooth and I think I'm gonna plan on controlling my water heater with this next up
there are motion sensors so if motion goes off inside your van however you mount this an alarm
can be activated on the smart controller and it can also send you alerts on your phone actually
you know what I you know what I went out of order on this guy so next up is the door and window
sensor so you can mount this to any door window opens or closes the controller will then notify
you on the app wherever you are remotely and let you know that a door or window has opened next up
smart relay this is probably one of the products that I'm most excited about you
can actually wire this up so when you walk into your RV trailer or boat or House or wherever
and your door sensor or your motion sensor goes off this will automatically trigger say the lights
the fan or anything else you program to come on and you can do this all through the app or
the controller uh I'm so excited for this because it's just going to turn this camper van into like
a smart home which is something I've always wanted I'm also very excited for the security features
because me and Kaylee have looked into getting a security system installed for the van like an
auto security with that comes a large price tag so this will now allow me to set the motion sensor or
the door of the window sensor and if any of those go off I'll get a notification on my phone saying
whatever's gone off and that I should probably run back to the van and see what's going on this also
seems extremely easy to set up so let's go ahead and open it up and see what we got in the Box
so suspense
got the manual quick start guide
I have like the little digital touch screen here and then we have these touch switches here on the
back we have a type c connector we have in out and out and out for all three switches we also
have an RS45 port and the positive and negative to power the unit so it looks pretty basic I saw this
somewhere else online you can just like balance it there so I might just start out with that since I
have no idea where I'm mounting it and I don't just want to start cutting holes in the wall so
we will see the power cable which looks extremely easy to set up basically just hooking up a
positive negative and it looks fairly long to you which is nice installation looks super easy
uh there's basically just a mounting plate here that you could cut out that hole there and then
just stick this to that plate once you've mounted it to the wall of course you'd have to run all
your wires to it and this is one of the things that oh my gosh I wish like I wish Renogy I knew
that this was coming out uh when we were building our van because I totally would have wired our van
completely different like this is this is such an upgrade uh I could have run like all the wiring
to this area but now that the panels and stuff are up I would have to remove the panels and then run
new wiring and stuff so I might have to figure out a location that I can mount this that I can
still use all my wiring since I'll still be able to use my phone and the DC home app to control
everything but let's get into the sensors here so this is the Smart plug and I think you know what
super simple so basically you just plug that into any Outlet like this one and it becomes a smart
plug and then there's a power button on the side that you can turn it on and off so clicks twice
Green's flashing I'm sure that's how it connects it's probably sending a Bluetooth signal out right
now which I am very excited about this because this is definitely going to work perfectly with
my water heater this is the Renogy Smart relay super small it looks like it would be very easy
to mount anywhere and all you have to do is run power to it it's pretty basic there's an in and
an out port and then there's an S1 a K1 a V1 and a V plus so I'm sure those are all just kind of
like inputs and outputs I'll have to look into the actual wiring diagrams but I'm guessing this would
be very easy to stick really anywhere I'm thinking right now of maybe the fan or even the light
switch so I could just pull this light switch out out and then wire it behind here this is the door
and window sensor uh so I have two of these Door and Window sensors I guess I can put one on the
back door maybe the side door and even the front door if I wanted to it looks like there's just
some adhesive tape in there and there's two arrows that line up there and then when the door opens
the sensor will go off like that door closed like that and then same idea for the window I might
just use this for two doors I don't think I'll use it for the window but I'm not quite sure yet so
we'll see I just wired this into the battery super quick and easy but I really want to get this wired
up and see how it works and test out some stuff and pull my phone out and get it hooked up to the
wonderful Renogy DC home app which I think you guys know how I feel about that app but
you know can't uh can't always be super easy so let's plug this guy in and see what happens
so we got Renogy coming up there on the screen pretty nice little logo that definitely looks new
the privacy policy here which we're just gonna click through uh searching for the internet so
this is one of the things I obviously don't have Wi-Fi in the van so what I'm gonna do is
turn on my phone and you can actually hook this guy up to a hotspot
okay so it is updating uh while it updates one of the things about this controller is there is
a subscription service you don't have to have a subscription for service but basically there's
different levels of subscriptions and the higher the level is the more features you get like most
subscriptions I would recommend you go in and see what you want to do as far as subscriptions go if
you want things like alerts and to see exactly how efficient your solar system is things like
that you're gonna have to subscribe to the higher service but if you don't need those features or
use those features you can definitely do just no subscription and just use the controller
open up the DC home app and then it says to click the Plus in the top right corner add
Renogy one DC home would like to access okay paired successfully add devices scanning for
smart devices nearby so my battery and my 50 amp DC to DC controller with mppt is connected
to my bt2 so both of those devices should show up but like the DC home app sometimes has issues
doing uh is connecting to those okay there we go okay now it's connected okay that's pretty cool
so the screen actually looks exactly like the app looks on the phone which uh is really nice
says I'm getting minus 4.3 amps right now which makes sense time remaining one day
20 hours okay so I don't know how well you guys are gonna be able to see this
um on the screen but this is basically the Renogy one screen so it's obviously touch screen I can go
into the battery and it will tell me the exact same things that the app would tell me it's got
the battery level capacity preset voltage preset current average temperature heating module status
and then I can also go into my DC charger not charging battery type house battery all
this stuff so that is pretty cool and then I can also go into devices and add a device if I want
to I can go over to settings add device system display themes dark light oh join a subscription
plan to apply the theme look at that so never so you can do sleep mode backlight adjustment
automatic setting like that pretty basic um these are the switches they obviously don't
come up I just finished installing a few of the sensors and I'm so excited uh they were great it
was really easy to install actually and connect to the controller I was having a few problems
operating it from the app but I've got to show you guys this so what you can do once you've
set up your sensors I've set up the motion sensor I've set up the smart plug and I've set up one of
the door sensors and right now I have set up a scene where if you open the door the smart plug
comes on and when you close the door it goes off so you can set up all sorts of different scenes
um you can use the relay you can use the motion sensor and it is really really cool it's very
satisfying actually this is the home display on the Renogy one app and you guys know it looks the
same on the controller and basically once you've set up your devices here you can turn things on
using your phone or the controller like the smart plug right now I can just hit on
and the light clicks on and then I can click off
the light clicks off so you can see that the door sensor is closed I've set it up
just over here on the sliding door and I'll go ahead and open it and you guys will see that
it will open and the light comes on which is sweet you can see open there and then it'll
also come up on the device here as open it looks the same on both now I'll take you to the scene
so under favorite scenes are all the scenes that you've set up you can name them different things
there are recommended ones like a low battery alarm access security arrive home those types
of scenes and then there are custom ones to do with the relay I haven't gotten into the relay yet
because I'm gonna need to figure out where it's going I wouldn't mind doing some sort of wiring
of the fan and linking it to maybe the window and the stove so when we go to cook open the window
fan automatically comes on that sort of scenario to just like start a new scene you can just go to
favorites or recommend or custom or whatever but you click the Plus in the upper right hand here
and then say when let's see uh when a panel switch is operated I haven't actually done a panel switch
so let's actually do something else so let's go when the motion sensor activates detected
or undetected so I mean let's say you forget to turn on the lights you could say undetected done
and then the action could be ideally would be like shut the lights off I guess but you could do
smart plug turn off done and then you can do an interruption you can do uh the name you can
change the name and then you can say applying time so you can do start and it doesn't have
to be all day which is sweet and then you can go save and there it is in your favorites I'm
going to talk a little bit about the subscriptions here so there is the Smart basic which is three
dollars a month thirty dollars a year there is the Smart Energy six dollars or sixty dollars a year
um and then the smart life which is ten dollars a month or a hundred dollars a year and these
include like all different things like the smart life is theme customization video chat support
entry alert smart motion detection one touch control all sorts of things um but the thing
about that too is ideally you would have Wi-Fi set up like in your RV or trailer or your camper
van and that's one thing that I would like to do with this just because if I'm going to have
these features I need this to be hooked up to Wi-Fi all the time and that would honestly make
me feel a lot safer and it would be pretty fun to use I am also gonna have to find a sweet spot to
mount this I'd really like it to be kind of at eye level uh so that would be pretty high for me but
I don't know where I'm gonna install it but I will show you guys I'll be doing another review
down the line and maybe like a six month to one year review and show you guys exactly what I love
about it what I don't like about it as always thank you guys so much for watching I really
appreciate it if you have any questions about the Renogy one feel free to comment below if
you like this video be sure to like it subscribe to the channel and I'll see you guys the next one
thank you