Good evening!
With Venus OS v3.31 officially released, its time to continue v3.40 beta testing.
Highlight: our new UI, gui-v2 beta
Available in public beta testing for several months already; and receiving continuous updates and progress towards official release.
The details:
- It is still in beta, porting all the features and functions of the old UI over to the new one is an enormous task, and I expect that to take several more months.
- Beta testing is best done using a browser, http://<ipaddress>/gui-beta. And you need to enable the MQTT on LAN (Plaintext) setting for that to work, but having it on screen on an Ekrano GX as well as GX Touch is possible as well.
- More screenshots and details are in this presentation:
https://bit.ly/gui-v2 - Known issues - no need to give comments or answers on these, they are being worked on:
- Keyboard navigation is not yet supported in the Remote Console
- Drill down for AC loads, showing the split between normal and critical loads is not available yet
- Solar and wind priority controls are missing.
- Connecting to wifi / setting wifi password doesnāt work.
- The arcs aka gauges on both brief page and overview page don't work well yet.
- Various other things.
Instructions: Venus OS beta testing & how to join/install
In case you don't know what this message is about, please start with reading this link, which explains the Venus OS beta program. Venus OS is the software running on all our GX devices, such as the Cerbo GX.
Instructions: How to post an issue?
By posting an answer below. Do please keep all findings organised: one answer issue per issue. So first check the existing threads if your issue has already been seen. And if it does, add a comment saying "me too". And preferably some more details. And in case its not listed yet, add a new Answer.
Note that Answers and Comments are two different things on this portal.
Lastly, before posting issues, preferably first revert to the latest official release, to double check if the issue you're seeing was present there as well. Regressions require a different treatment than other issues and bugs.
And include information about the results/differences in behaviour in your report.
Instructions: Node-RED, Kevinās GuiMods or other add-ons?
In case you are running Node-RED or SignalK, then please at least say so in your bug report.
GuiMods and other 3rd party add-ons: donāt report your gui issues here. Do it elsewhere instead.
Changes made by us can cause a compatibility issue with the GuiMods; and these betas report pages are for official firmware only.
Change log
v3.40~9 and v3.40~10
- Fix energy flow from DC bus to Inverter/Charger not correctly animating with Inverters, Inverter RS or Multi RS
- restore showing a warning note when switching to gui-v2
- Cerbo GX MK2: rename CAN ports from VE.Can and BMS-Can to VE.Can 1 and VE.Can 2.
- Add forcing good settings for Meterboost batteries, see: https://www.victronenergy.com/live/battery_compatibility:meterboost
Developers:
- Add selectable HV Canbus profile for VE.Can 2 port of both the Ekrano GX and the Cerbo MK2.
- Add support for external back feed relay systems. More public information on this will be shared later.
v3.40~3 upto and including v3.40~8
- gui-v2
- Add multi-phase visualization for AC gauges
- Separate AC and DC input gauges on Brief page
- Show AC input gauge if valid even if disconnected
- Always show AC load gauge on Brief page
- Update solar arc gauges on Brief page
- Improve min/max value ranging for all gauges; note that this work is not completed yet.
- Fix bugs in and improve arc gauge animations
- Add support for Passthrough in Multi RS
- Use monospaced font for value labels, performance improvement / cpu reduction.
- Hide display-off button during alerts
- Prevent Qt crashing by avoiding UniformAnimator
- Improve timezone support and date/time setting
- Split AC/DC input side gauge into separate AC and DC input gauges
- Support displaying tank volumes on the Brief page: select Settings > Display&Language > Brief levels > Brief view unit > Show tank volumes
- Pause the Overview page animations during heavy CPU load (accumulated 80% all CPUs)
- Improvements to the GUI v2 positioning and scaling on the browser
- Fix dialogs appearing in a different scale than the rest of the GUI v2 on the browser
- Various bug fixes: a crash on browser, Brief page stutter, radio button selection, etc.
- Updated translations
- Ruuvi wireless temperature sensors: Increase low battery alarm hysteresis to avoid repeated triggers
- Modbus-TCP
- Add registers for ESS MinSocLimit on Multi RS (register 4614)
- Add registers for InverterCharger power and current summary
These registers provide a single summary of what the inverter-charger (Multi RS or VE.Bus Multi) is doing on the DC bus. It provides a single place for user interfaces to find the value, and hence also for modbus.
VE.Can D-Bus driver: various changes related to the Multi RS, preparing for future features.
First version of Integrel E-Power integration; few more changes coming. Feature is monitoring.
GX Tank: remove limit of max 32 sensors
Fix problem where PV-inverters measured using the AC Current sensor accessory wired to a Multi disappears after doing firmware updates. This is done simply by adding a 5 second time delay. This is old code for old hardware that does not warrant spending much time on.
Generator integration: add generator engine oil temperature reading to the gui, works for those generator controllers that support that.
Changes that were all also released as v3.31 official:
Fix EVCS firmware updates over VRM failing on fast network connections.
Note that the fix for gui-v1 locking up on boot sometimes is not yet included, will be included in v3.40~9.
- gui: fix alarm icon showing while there is no alarm, issue was introduced in v3.30
- gui: remove DESS Minimum SOC menu entry, since that is now configurable on the VRM portal rather than in the GX menu structure.
- Dynamic ESS: fix bug where PV from grid-inverter was fed back into the grid rather than used to charge the battery, in certain conditions.
- SignalK-Server v2.5.0 -> v2.7.1 + signalk-venus plugin update.
VM-3P75CT Energy Meter: fix power readings not properly available when using multiple of these energy meters on the same VE.Can network.
Venus OS Large + Developers:
- Node-RED: fix a bug that could cause relay 1 to be disabled. node-red-contrib v1.5.16.
- Node-RED: update from v3.1.7 to v3.1.8. https://github.com/node-red/node-red/releases/tag/3.1.8.
- vreg-tool: Fix binary output mode. There was a conflict with the -b common (velib shared) command line switch, which can be used to set the canbus bitrate. The vreg tool used the same switch for binary output mode, which has been changed to -B.
- Add more pts as securetty. That is reported to improve tailscale connections.
- Update Qt from v6.5.2 to v6.6.2
- Change websockified VNC port, used by Remote Console on LAN. This traffic used to go over port 81, now its served by nginx on port 80 and 443, url is now http://<ip>/websockify and https://<ip>/websockify.
v3.40~2
- New version of gui-v2
- Show both grid and generator on the Overview page if availabe
- Show arrow icon next to AC input gauge value when ESS feedback enabled
- Fix display not switching off at user configured "Display off time"
- Add manual display off button added to the status bar on the top. Allows user to quickly turn the display off again after looking something up, especially in the dark. Nice feature, thank you to those that suggested that!
- Increase the size of status bar buttons (e.g. back button) for easier access
- Overall performance improved, in other words: CPU usage by gui-v2 was reduced, by various improvements
- Avoid stutter when leaving the main settings page
- Fix inverted tank levels on the Brief page
- Use custom name for tanks if available
- Inverter / Charger details opening in the Overview page fixed
- Crash when leaving the WiFi settings fixed
- Fixed generator start/stop dialogs getting momentarily stuck on the screen on Ekrano GX
- Hide the display brightness setting when gui-v2 is accessed using the browser
- Various fixes to the Battery settings
- Various smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Various other changes and improvements that are in preparation of future functionality.
Venus OS Large
- Update Node-RED from v3.1.5 to v3.1.7. For details see their change logs: https://github.com/node-red/node-red/releases
v3.30 -> v3.40~1
- re-add gui-v2 beta
- generator start/stop: some internal changes related to cooldown and warmup and ignoring AC in to prepare for a different new feature that relates to "ignoring AC in" coming soon.