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UPDATE 2023-10-28: public testing ov v3.20 is paused, in favour of v3.12~1.

UPDATE: 2023-10-25: v3.20~12 is now available
UPDATE: 2023-10-17: v3.20~10 is now available

Hello!

Last week, the beta testing of v3.20 was paused for a moment to prepare and release v3.11, which is now done. It has several fixes and improvements.

Now with that out of the way, its time to continue beta testing v3.20 again, and since yesterday we have v3.20~9 available for public beta testing.

The main new features are:

1. New Marine MFD / HTML5 app, see screenshots below.
2. Add support for Deep Sea Electronics generator controller model DSE 4620. Functionality is similar to ComAp: readout of all parameters + start/stop control.

Full details below, first some high lights as well as explanation on how to report issues as well as how to install the beta firmware.

Enjoy! Matthijs

Completely renewed Marine MFD / HTML5 App

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And here a more extended system, with more tanks, and more energy sources:

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Note that above two screenshots are taken from the design files, it might differ a bit from actual implemenation.

These are screenshots taken from the new implementation, but there I'm not able to now have them embedded in actual look on a marine MFD like above:

And white mode:

And for comparison, here is a screenshot of the old version:

Instructions: Venus OS beta testing & how to join/install

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Changes v3.20~11 and v3.20~12

• Support additional DSE generator models. The complete list is now:
  • 4510 MKII
  • 4620
  • 6110 MKII
  • 7310 MKII
  • 7410 MKII
  • 7420 MKII
  • 8610 MKII
  • 8660 MKII
• VM-3P75CT: update minimum required firmware version to v1.03

Developers

• Update Qt6 to QT 6.5.2

Changes v3.20~10

• Fix issue that caused the energy meter its role setting to get lost and return to the default. The issue affected systems having energy meter setup to measure output of a PV Inverter, a grid meter or an AC load. We recommend to double check the system, any system that has ran v3.20~9 for a while, might need this setting to be restored manually. Issue was introduced in v3.20~9

Changes v3.20~8 and v3.20~9

ESS:

• Increase limit of 32.7kW per phase limit to 138kW.
• Fix problem where the recently introduced setting "Self-consumption from Battery" to "only critical loads" did not work correctly if a Multi on L1 was compensating for loads on other phases.

Managed batteries:

• Add menu entry showing module-level alarms. Note that there are no batteries that support this yet.

Quattro-II

• Add support for new Error 128 as well as transmit more diagnostic data to VRM.

EV Charger and VE-Energy Meter

• Add enable/disable switch for EV Chargers and VE-energy meters. Defaults to disabled: from now onwards, when installing an EV Charger with a GX, the EV Charger needs to be enabled in the GX. Any EVCS already seen in a prior GX firmware version will be enabled automatically.
• Add option to manually add VE Energy Meter, mostly intended in case the meter is not on the same network, which might happen in systems having a more complex ethernet/IP network.

Energy Meters, SmartShunt and Inverter and Multi RS:

• Fix issue in reporting to VRM that happens in some cases. Installing the new version will solve the issue automatically.
• Note that there might also be a bug in v3.20~9, that makes systems with an energy meter configured to measure a PV Inverter change the role by themselves to Grid, which we are working on.

RV-C:

• Fix bugs in the VE.Bus related DGNs:
  • Fix external control state in CHARGER_STATE DGN.
  • Improve CHARGER_STATE in case the charger is disabled or mains is not present.
  • Improve INVERTER_STATE in case the inverter is disabled or cannot invert due to low battery.
• Fix sending of DGNs of the main interface (the GX itself). Broken since VenusOS v3.00. Mostly harmless, since this only contains GX firmware version and similar data.

Venus OS Large

• Update Signal K Server from v1.46.3 to v2.3.0
  • Fixes various UX issues
  • Adds documentation
  • Various under-the-hood improvements related to Course API, CanboatJS and more
  • Full change log: https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server/releases
• Update NodeJS from v1.18.16 to v1.18.18

Changes v3.20~5, 6 and 7

• Fix Ekrano GX remote firmware update issues with VE.Can products: the remote firmware update mechanism did not accept having two ports configured with the VE.Can profile, which the Ekrano has by default.
• Add support for DSE 4620 genset controllers (this connects via ModbusTCP, just like ComAp. More details, as well as more models, will follow later).
• Various fixes related to Generator start/stop
• Show a warning if the firmware for the MK3 controller built into the GX device has not been updated yet. For details, see the v3.00 blog post.
• Dynamic ESS:
  • Fix problem with oscillation around the Dynamic ESS minsoc point. Once the system reached the minimum SOC, it would go back into normal ESS mode. This could cause the battery to start recharging, causing oscillation. Now we remain in DESS mode, but we go to idle, and set the ErrorCode accordingly (Low SOC).
• Solar and wind priority: fix a small bug around charge battery to 100% visualisation.

RaspberryPi:

• Add files for the RaspberryPi 3a Plus model. Thank you @Head!

Changes v3.20~3 and v3.20~4

• Fix various bugs in the gui related to generator start/stop, all regressions introduced per v3.10.
  • Fix generator start stop reported run time
  • Fix an info toast message is not shown when setting service timer
  • Fix bug where FischerPanda gensets sometimes lose the engine values (Oil Pressure, RPM, etc)
• IMT Irradiance sensors: Log the value of second temperature probe to VRM.
• Dynamic ESS:
  • Fix bug where the maximum system feed-in setting was exceeded during automatic DynamicESS use

Venus OS Large

• Victron Palette, aka node-red-contrib-victron, v1.5.0 to v1.5.2
  • Add option to show the values in the flow. Instead of OK and Connected. A very nice improvement, see below screenshot. Activate in the configuration node.
  • Update dependencies
  • Send only changed rounded values
• Node-RED: update from v3.0.2 to v3.1.0.
  • Full change log is here: https://github.com/node-red/node-red/releases/tag/3.1.0.
  • A blog post by the Node-RED organisation, with more detailed information is here: https://nodered.org/blog/2023/09/06/version-3-1-released
  • One highlight is the new option to lock flows, and another is that its easier to see what you've changed in the editor.

The 23.8 in below screenshot is what is new in Node-RED per Venus OS v3.20~4:

Changes v3.10 -> v3.20~2

• Re-add HTML5 app. Changes compared to the previous version:
  • Increase performance / response speed
  • Fix tank levels showing NaN sometimes
• Remote Multi/Quattro firmware updates: fix bug where the Multis and Quattros don't show on on the VRM firmware update device list if the mk3 firmware has not been upgraded.
• IMT Irradiance sensors:
  • add support for second temperature probe on devices with two temperature probes
  • add support for IMT sensors running firmware versions older than v1.53.
• VE-3P75CT meter: increase ESS speed slightly
• Update FzSonick batteries product name

Developers:

• re-enable FlashMQ