Most RVs have a solenoid switch or a contactor to temporarily merge house battery and chassis battery 12V power circuits together. Sometimes it's manually controlled by a dash button, sometimes it's more inteligent based on sensing voltages and deciding when to merge. The goals are to maintain both batteries at a healthy voltage, prevent either one from going dead, utilize charging opportunities from the engine or from shore power or solar to maintain both batteries.
Lithionics ACR is such device, with smart programming and Bluetooth app connection to show you the status and voltages on both sides of the merging switch.
It has an Ignition circuit to know when engine is running, which suggests alternator charging is available, so it can merge and charge the house battery.
Standby state is a default state when it's waiting to sense an opportunity to merge both batteries.
Document linked above by @creativepart describes how ACR works with a logic table of all possible states and conditions.