Venus OS v3.40~25 available for testing

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mvader (Victron Energy) asked Apr 24, '24

Venus OS v3.40~25 available for testing

Good evening!

With Venus OS v3.31 officially released, and later v3.32, 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 doesn’t work.
- The arcs aka gauges on both brief page and overview page don't work well yet.
- Various other things.

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Change log

v3.40~25

Revert gui-v2 back to v0.3.2, same as v3.40~21. Fixes it not working via VRM.

v3.40~24

New gui-v2
MQTT: limit full republishes in response to a keep alive to max three per second. Fixes our servers being “hammered” as a result of bugs in third party / diy code bases that connect to our MQTT brokers in VRM.
MQTT: don’t send data to VRM brokers in case its requested from local LAN, reduces unnecessary internet traffic & load.

Known issue: gui-v2 doesn’t work on VRM. On local LAN it does work.

v3.40~23

fix auto start/stop not working for Ethernet connected gensets (DSE, ComAp). Was broken per v3.40~17.

v3.40~22

Connected gensets, ie. Fischer Panda, DSE, ComAp: improve menu structure. See also the picture at the bottom.

v3.40~21

DVCC

Fore enable DVCC on for the Lynx Smart BMS NG.

gui-v2 beta:

BMS autoselection setting now reports correct values in DVCC settings
Fix Generator start/stop conditions showing invalid values
Fix regression that hid some labels in the settings
Fix Inverter/Charger input settings showing stale values
Touch parameters tuned to make flicks more light-weight
Improve battery widget contrast on light style on the Overview page
Number formatting aligned to always show "." decimal point to fix some text input issues
Various fixes and improvements upstreamed from the gui-v1 side:
- Added Dynamic ESS settings page
- Handle short circuit alarm for RS products
- Show "Grid setpoint" setting also in keep charged mode in ESS settings
- Add separate settings page for peak shaving and AC import/export
- Some improvements for Lynx Smart BMS support, e.g. display balancer
- status and errors
- Hide unused details on the Battery details page

Venus OS Large

Node-RED: update the victron-vrm-api node to v0.2.5, which adds modifying Dynamic ESS configuration
Update signalk-server from v2.8.0 to v2.8.2, includes a few bugfixes. See https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server/releases for the full list of changes.
Update singalk-venus-plugin from 1.35.0 to1.37.0, which adds bms data and a few fixes, see https://github.com/sbender9/signalk-venus-plugin/releases for the full list of changes.

Developer / internal

Multi RS comms driver changes, preparing for future features of the Multi RS;

v3.40~20

Generator start/stop: add sending of both alarms (see v3.40~18 changelog entry) to vrm. This feature is now - finally! - complete. Both locally and remotely on VRM there is a notification in case its forgotten to put the genset, in one way or another, back to auto start mode.
Energy Meters: make firmware version visible on VRM.

Developers/internal:

FlashMQ v1.13.1: stability improvements for an edge case

v3.40~18

Generator start/stop: fix "Alarm when generator is not in auto start mode". This functionality was broken per Venus OS v3.20, released per February this year. Since then, it only worked for system with a "digitally connected" generator panel, like DSE, ComAp, Fischer Panda. And no longer for the most common use case: GX relay driven start/stop.
Add a separate alarm to monitor if the generator allows remote starts. Works only for generator panels aka generator start/stop controllers that support that, like DSE, ComAp, Fischer Panda.

Note that this second alarm doesn't show up in VRM yet, that's for coming beta versions.

Screenshot of the setting:

Screenshot of the two possible alarms. Depending on what issue there is, either one of them or both might show:

v3.40~17

gui-v1
- Remove buy and sell modes from Dynamic ESS
- Add monthly option to ESS Scheduled Charge levels menu
- Don't show system state (# codes) when system in ESS mode External Control; since they are not actually used and thus confusing
EV Charging Station:
- Update list of statusses for charging in gui-v1
Tank sensors & temp sensors
- Change tank/temp error "disconnected" to open circuit
- Fix tank settings flapping in quite special use case
- Support factory calibration of temperature inputs
gui-v2
- Disallow tapping AC Input box on the Overview page when no AC input is connected
- Fix tapping of AC Input box opening empty page if there is no grid meter
- Fix overlap when there are 5 widgets on the Brief page side panel
- Fix overlapping Overview boxes on some layouts on Cerbo GX
- Fix tank gauge levels sometimes trailing actual values
- Fix tank gauges drawing outside its container on the Levels page
- Fix random crash caused by tank bar gauge animations
- Fix opening of energy meter settings
- Fix gui-v2 getting stuck if alarm was received and settings dialog was open
- Fix fuzzy icons and gauges when opening gui-v2 on browser on high DPI screens
- Fix splash screen flicker on Ekrano GX and on the browser
- Always launch splash in dark style to reduce flicker on the browser (local LAN network version, doesn't affect VRM)
- Digital inputs: Add type for touch input control (allows wiring a button to a digital input to enable/disable touch screen)
- Make spin box button repeat less sensitive to avoid unintentional changes
- Don't allow flicking beyond vertical list bounds
- Fix text field placeholder text truncations on some languages
- Updated translations

Protocols / connectivity:

Modbus-TCP: various, will be expanded later

Developers / internals:

Report on D-Bus if EVCC is installed (see github for what EVCC is)

v3.40~16

Gui-v1
- fix notifications not being shown as acknowledged. Probably introduced per v3.30 (also released in v3.32)
- Remove Alternator power (if measured separately by for example a SmartShunt configured to do that, or a connected Wakespeed, or Integrel) from value shown in the DC System box. This means the overview no longer shows that value - not perfect in gui-v1, but for that the solution is to use gui-v2 instead, since that shows alternators separately.
Integrel E-Power: increase robustness wrt querying the Integrel system for the name, typically used to distinguish between the Port and Starboard E-Power.
RV-C: Fix bug that causes crashes and restarts + RV-C Out Tank feature. (also released in v3.32)
gui-v2 v0.3.0 (ARM + Webassembly)
- Improvements to the Brief page side panel graphs and gauges
- Split AC/DC input section into AC and DC parts on the side panel
- ESS feed-in indication improvements in the Brief and Overview pages
- Inverter / Charger mode setting now allows "Inverter only" or "Charger only" options for multi devices
- Adjustments to voltage precision rules (DC = 2 decimals, AC = 0, low/high cell voltage = 3)
- If amps is as the preferred unit, show amps for solar whenever possible
- AC input device settings cover CRE and DEIF genset controllers
- Updated translations
VE.Can driver: Add support for Energy Solutions SmartSwitch. This is a VE.Can enabled 4-channel digital switching device. Each channel can be configured as momentary/digital/dimming output or as input (active high/low). Note that there is no onwards support yet in for example gui-v2 or Node-RED or similar.

Venus OS Large:

Signal-K Server: update from v2.7.1 to v2.8.0. See https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server/releases/tag/v2.7.2 and https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server/releases/tag/v2.8.0.
Victron nodes from v1.5.17 to v1.15.18
- Update of services.json for Multi, VE.Bus and EV charger nodes, Documentation update, Dependencies update

Low level / developers:

FlashMQ v1.13.0 & dbus-flashmq v5
- Fix connection to VRM not reconnecting/restorigng in a certain edge case. (also released in v3.32)
- Don't publish Bluetooth pincode out over MQTT.

v3.40~14 and v3.40~15

Gui-v1
- Hide the History submenu on the battery page if the battery does not support history
- Hide the module level alarms menu on the battery page if the battery does not support it
- Various improvements related to visualisation and control of Multi RS systems.
- In systems without a managed battery, hide the Controlling BMS selection. This avoids confusion in systems with a different kind of BMS (VE.Bus, two signal) where the user might be confused.
- fix a long time bug (present since Venus 3.00, when BMS selection was introduced) where the BMS selection was offered even when DVCC is not enabled.
- Fix how the system peak shaving options work
  - They are no longer locked out if the peak shaving option is not set to Always (it works with both settings)
  - The settings are always shown, but not enabled if they can't be used
  - Some useful text shows up explaining why they are not enabled.
EasySolar-II GX and MultiPlus-IO GX recent hardware series that have a VE.Can port: fix communication with Pylontech Force-L2 (also released in v3.32)
gui-v2 v0.2.19 (ARM + WebAssembly)
- Add missing battery self-consumption setting to ESS settings
- Show dashes when Brief page battery value is invalid
- Fix random issue of opening pages with status and nav bar hidden
- Avoid label overlap on the Overview page battery widget
- Add explanation to Electrical power display that watts may still be shown even when amps is preferred
- Prevent Levels page from disappearing when changing mock configs
- Don't translate relative humidity (RH) abbrevation.
ESS Peakshaving: Fix issue where maximum import current did not always work correctly when Peak Shaving was set to "Above Minimum Soc only". This only affected the import current limit, not the export current.

Venus OS large:

Update signalk-venus-plugin from v1.34.1 to v1.35.0: adds alternator FieldDrive

v3.40~11, v3.40~12 and v3.40~13

Managed batteries

Fix issue that causes Freedomwon batteries to sometimes disappear after a reboot, causing the Inverter/charger and other components to show "Error 67 - no BMS". In more technical terms: we fixed an issue that caused the BMS-Can interface to somtimes hang on high traffic during boot. (also released in v3.32)
- The issue and fix only involve the BMS-Can interface on the Cerbo GX as well as the earlier EasySolar-II GX and MultiPlus-II GX production that had a BMS-Can interface.
- CAN ports marked as VE.Can are not affected. Therefore the new Cerbo GX MK2, Ekrano GX, as well as later production of the EasySolar-II GX and MultiPlus-II GX that have a VE.Can port, rather than a BMS-Can port, are all not affected.
- This is a relatively new problem, since the high traffic is caused by a recent BMS Firmware/Profile released by Freedomwon since late 2023.
- We're not aware of any other batteries that have the same issue; and if there were then that problem is now also solved.
- For any system/user/installer with a Freedomwon battery, we recommend to await an official release of Venus OS that includes this fix - if testing goes well then we expect to make the official release in June at the latest. For systems that can't wait, either install this beta version or contact Freedomwon to install an updated BMS profile (requires USB connection, laptop + remote access by Freedomwon).
- Thank you to Warwick C. and other South African professionals for highlighting this and helping to get to the bottom of this. Fixing this in Venus OS was quite involved, and much appreciated since updating Venus OS is the most efficient solution to deploy.

Dynamic ESS

Fix problem where the error code sometimes gets stuck. But was present since Dynamic ESS introduction (Venus OS v3.30) (also released in v3.32)

gui-v2 beta

Add settings page that allows to set min and max values for the gauges ranges, as well as enable and disable auto-ranging. By default, auto-ranging is enabled.
Various improves to gauges on the Brief and Overview page
Hide levels page if there are no tanks and temperature data
Jump to notifications page also when an alarm is received while in a sub-page
Pause page animations when the display is off (reduces CPU)
Enable upscaling of gui-v2 when viewed in a browser
Fix bug in switches that are part of a list item
Update translations
Show small 3-phase view for AC Loads widget when size <= S
Add high temperature and short circuit Solar Charger alarms
Show hidden ESS limit/max charge power setting
Fix Brief page showing percentages briefly after selecting the volume unit
Various layout fixes for overlapping labels on different languages
Rename incorrect AC input 'Grid meter' to 'Grid'

Venus OS Large

Add Victron-VRM-API node, a node that makes it easy to get data from the VRM database

Internal / developer / future

CAN-bus BMS HV profile: Add Pylontech HV protocol
CAN-bus BMS HV profile: Remove transmission of 0x307 messages
Lynx Smart BMS & Lynx Smart BMS NG: add feature to combine multiple Lynx Smart BMSes into one parallel redundant battery bank. Note that this feature also requires a firmware update / any public testing is not possible yet.

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.

Connected genset menu, see v3.40~22

(Warmup and cooldown are missing; they are part of the Control status - will be added soon.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 06 at 08:22 PM

Hi all! Per earlier today the new beta version is v3.40~13. Change log will follow later today or tomorrow. Have a good night

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andrii-podanenko mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 08 at 04:50 AM

Installed on both MultiRS and MultiPlus II setups.

Noticable changes in gui-v2 - now it fits to the mobile screen. Thank you.

Green Mode in DESS on MultiPlus II - I see the difference and it makes sense for me. Was bothering in Trade mode charge happening in the end of the solar, while in Green Mode it tries to charge from solar sooner. Good change.

So far - both system are stable. Thank you

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Apr 26 at 05:13 PM

Hey all! Right before the weekend, v3.40~10 is out for testing.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 07 at 06:01 AM

Venus OS v3.40~13 change log is now included above.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 27 at 10:00 AM

Hi, a short update: this morning we released v3.32 official release.

Meanwhile, field testing / development of v3.40 betas continues.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 28 at 06:08 PM

Hi all, per just now v3.40~18 is available for testing. It fixes an alarm related to generator start/stop - we'll shortly, ie. one or two weeks is the current planning, make an official release that includes this fix.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 05 at 09:29 PM

Good evening all!

Per just now, v3.40~21 is out for beta testing.

A new version of gui-v2, as well as some other changes - mostly minor.

All the best, Matthijs

Ps. can I ask you to please put your remarks in as a new answer, rather than a commenting on my post, ie the main question? Thanks!

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 18 at 12:04 PM

Hello all!

Per just now, v3.40~16 is out for beta testing. The change log has been added to this post; it entails further gui-v2 development as well as various other bits & pieces.

We'll soon work on a v3.32 "stability" release, which builds onto the current official release, being v3.31, and adds a few bug fixes to that.

For anyone that prefers to keep gui-v2, or otherwise not get v3.32 for a few days, you'll have to disable auto-updating.

All the best and enjoy your weekend!

Matthijs

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 25 at 09:49 AM

Morning! Beta v3.40~17 is available per now; details above.

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ojack mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 25 at 06:39 PM

Today I activated GUI V2 at my GX Touch 50 for the first time.

I found one issue at the "overview" page.

The little dots which show the flow of energy constantly get stuck. It's not nice to look at. With GUI V1 the dots run smoothly.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 29 at 10:02 PM

Good evening, v3.40~20 is now out for public beta testing.

It completes fixing/adding the two alarms around generator start/stop, by sending the alarms to VRM, and some other minor and stability improvements. See changelog above for details.

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ainoa mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 29 at 10:19 PM

FYI, label shows as v3.40~18 instead of ~20

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Kevin Windrem mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 29 at 11:51 PM

It appears ~20 is not on the candidate (beta) branch of the feeds yet

anika: ~18 was released as a candidate a few days ago.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 04:08 AM

Good morning. Per now, v3.40~22 is available for public beta testing.

One change, which is that we improved the menu structure of “connected gensets”, ie. ComAp, Fischer Panda and DSE.

Also it is now possible to manually start the genset without at the same time disabling auto-starts. Which aligns this UI with the one of gensets driven by a relay of the GX.

If you have a connected DSE, ComAp or Fischer Panda, please try it and let me know if it works all OK.

I’m keen to release this asap, together with the recent bugfix to the related “not in autostart mode” warning. That will be v3.33 official.

Here is the new menu:

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Answer 1 · 2024-05-25T04:17:49Z

Jeremy Albrecht answered · May 25 at 04:17 AM

I have a Cerbo running 3.40~16, and an Orion XS connected to it. Everything seems to work as expected, except inside Node-Red. The "DC-DC" and "DC-DC Control" nodes both give the following error:

                  
                   There are no dc-dc services available. Please check that a dc-dc is connected or try a different node.

The "Alternator" node does detect the Orion XS and allows me to pull data from it, but there’s no control via that node, and it doesn’t match the documentation.

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Dirk-Jan Faber (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 06 at 06:26 AM

@Jeremy Albrecht : I've created an issue for this on Github (https://github.com/victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron/issues/193). Feel free to add info there.
I'll probably look into it early next week.

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Answer 2 · 2024-05-25T11:23:01Z

ojack answered · May 25 at 11:23 AM

3.40~17 seems to work without major issues.

One thing I have is that there are several entrys with same names in the range Menü

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jpetrell commented · May 27 at 02:39 PM

> One thing I have is that there are several entrys with same names in the range Menü

The section headers with relevant information were accidentally hidden sorry. They will be back in the next version.

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Answer 3 · 2024-05-25T11:25:17Z

ojack answered · May 25 at 11:25 AM

And still my reported Problem with the Ganges themselves.

How should these gauges tell me something that comes near to the real values?

All have nearly the same lenght but very different values.

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mr-manuel commented · May 27 at 04:50 AM

Could you please change the display from watts to amps and see if the gauges are more real? Maybe same problem as https://github.com/victronenergy/gui-v2/issues/1045

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ojack mr-manuel commented · May 27 at 06:55 AM

Changed units to amps. But nothing changed in displayed values and strange gauges. All green gauges have nearly the same lenght but amount of L3 is 10 times bigger then L1

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ojack ojack commented · May 27 at 07:07 AM

Only at 'overview' the units changed to amps. But gauges there do not fit too.

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Kevin Windrem commented · Jun 06 at 12:37 AM

grid consumption and feed-in may have very different maximums and showing these on the same gauge, scaled with different maximums is the cause of the confusion. More differentiation between consumption and feed-in is needed. Color alone isn't sufficient to indicate status. Also, the green left facing arrow is not really correct since L1 and L3 are feeding in but L2 is consuming. Maybe this is intended to show the total of all phases as is the numeric value below it. but that isn't clear.

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ojack Kevin Windrem commented · Jun 06 at 08:35 AM

Even if I set range for grid consumption and feed in to the same value (40A and -40A) I can't see how these gauges could tell me something about the real values?

The green gauge for L3 is half the lenght of L1 while the value of L3 is 6 times higher then L1. @mvader (Victron Energy) @Dirk-Jan Faber (Victron Energy) what's the problem here?

The green arrow shows the total (here 10kW feed-in). That's ok for me an clear enough, I think.

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mr-manuel ojack commented · Jun 06 at 08:45 AM

There were some optimizations done. Probably solved in the next version.

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ojack mr-manuel commented · Jun 06 at 08:51 AM

Thanks, I'll report....

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Answer 4 · 2024-05-25T11:26:17Z

matthias-roetzer answered · May 25 at 11:26 AM

Hi all,

I'm experiencing weird graphs in VRM, first I was thinking this is in beta VRM, but it is happening in released VRM as well. See screenshot below. No further explanations necessary, I suppose.

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ojack commented · May 25 at 12:15 PM

Did you try to delete the widget and select it again?

At my installation all widgets are ok. Beta vrm and production vrm as well.

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Answer 5 · 2024-05-25T13:57:12Z

hominidae answered · May 25 at 01:57 PM

@mvader (Victron Energy) Wow, EVCC is coming !!

What is the move behind it, besides having a nice way to control your Charger? Will this allow to integrate other brands of Chargers, that are supported by EVCC to be integrated into the victron ecosystem, hopefully?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 25 at 02:11 PM

Nice to see the enthusiasm.

Pls don’t get your hopes up too high - this is just a small experiment

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ojack mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 25 at 02:56 PM

It would be even more ingenious to implement the eebus interface directly. This should allow almost all wallboxes and many heat pumps to be controlled. And as far as I know, smart meter gateways (at least in Germany) will also issue control commands from the grid operators via eebus. For example, to reduce the power of controllable consumer devices when the grid is at risk of overload. This includes heat pumps, wallboxes and storage units if they can be charged from the network with more than 4.2kW. This would mean that all (D)ESS from 3xMulti3000 onwards would be included.

And this controllability is required by law in Germany from 2024, so every battery that can be charged from the grid must support this (EEG Paragraph 14a)

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hominidae ojack commented · May 25 at 03:57 PM

as far as I know, EEBUS is not settled yet. There is also IEC61850 under discussion and a DSO is not allowed to make a single technology a required one, as long as there is not a broad acceptance of availability in the market.

But you are right. It is a legal requirement and a new owner is not allowed to install a system that does not have these capabilities (even common, direct control via a 2-wire switch is not baked in, into victron gear - hence new installs could be in reality considered not legal at this point in time).

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ojack hominidae commented · May 25 at 04:04 PM

As I see it, the only way to circumvent the regulation at the moment is to either prevent charging from the grid or to throttle charging from the grid to less than 4.2kW.

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hominidae mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · May 25 at 03:03 PM

@mvader (Victron Energy) OK, understood.

But please note that there are things going on in the legislation, here in Germany (I already pointed Dirk-Jan Faber towards it, for DESS).

Point is, that as of January 1st 2024, in order to be able to install and to be allowed to operate an EV-Charger and/or a Battery with the capability to draw more that 4.2kW of Power (each) you *have* to register each with the DSO as a controllable/dimmable system (enabling the DSO to dimm/limit power down to 4.2kW) - see: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/ElektrizitaetundGas/Aktuelles_enwg/14a/start.html

And the major point here is, that the Owner/Operator can choose the way how the control/dimming will be integrated technically (either by a direct control, typically with a load-switch triggered remotely by the DSO or by integration into the owners local EMS, which is the typical method when more than one system is installed, by means of EEBUS or IEC61850 - probably, as the DSO haven't standardised this yet).

Hence my hopes were, that this move with EVCC would help to make victron VenusOS the more generic EMS for each install (at this point in time, my Charger - openWB - is the EMS of choice as they already have the means of integrating with the DSO and victron....EVCC does support the integration with openWB, though)

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Answer 6 · 2024-05-26T08:57:32Z

sportswagoneer answered · May 26 at 08:57 AM

VE bus stopped reporting status - but Could still be controlled!

Running 3.40~16 Large on Cerbo GX, using SignalK and Node red with a Multiplus 12/1600/70-16. I have Node red turning the Multiplus on and off depending on several factors, among them a switch connected to the Cerbo digital inputs. Recently, the Cerbo display, menu item and the Node red node stopped reporting changed status (stuck on “off”). But the actual Multiplus was still responding to commands. I could use AC from the inverter and hear the relé click on and off as I operated the switch. So only the reporting was broken - not the control.

Trying to “restart ve bus” from the Cerbo had no effect, but a reboot solved the issue.

(I made this the digital I/O route instead of through the MP remote switch because using both tended to get the VE bus stuck. But then, both control and report would crash. Suspect this is some software bug. Remote port on MP is now shorted as it was from the factory.)

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Answer 7 · 2024-05-26T11:15:26Z

Tony answered · May 26 at 11:15 AM

I have updated my Cerbo GX firmware to v3.40~17. When using Gui-v2 in VRM I am not able to change the device name because no keyboard appears when I tap on the device name data input box. I am running VRM on Lenovo tablet, using android V10

Any ideas as to why the keyboard doesn't appear when I tap on the Name box?

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jpetrell commented · May 28 at 10:12 AM

Thanks for the report! Indeed, the virtual keyboard does not open when gui-v2 is accessed on the VRM website on Android. The virtual keyboard opens like expected when accessing gui-v2 on local network (device_ip/gui-beta) or using iPhone/iPad. Investigating.

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Tony jpetrell commented · May 28 at 10:48 AM

Thank you for the update

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Answer 8 · 2024-05-27T07:44:23Z

kurt-thu answered · May 27 at 07:44 AM

Hi. First og all. Thx a lot for the fantastic job you are doing for us all. You ROCK!!!

Is it possible to change the colour on full battery? If you se the attached picture you can see that it's difficult to se the black letters in the blue full battery.

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pwfarnell commented · May 27 at 11:02 PM

@jpetrell I noticed this yesterday aswell, you have to be at almost 90deg to the screen to see the black lettering against the dark blue. A text colour that works well with the blue and white background is required here. It is easier to read on the dark mode, but I prefer the light mode. Perhaps the blue for the battery needs to be lighter.

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jpetrell commented · May 28 at 09:02 AM

Thanks! We'll look into improving the battery widget legibility and contrast.

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jpetrell commented · May 30 at 09:49 AM

Battery widget legibility has been improved in the next release.

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kurt-thu jpetrell commented · May 31 at 07:21 AM

Im really looking forward to see the new battery widget :-) Thx again for your good work!!!

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kurt-thu jpetrell commented · Jun 07 at 03:03 PM

Hi. You wrote that the battery widget legibility has been improved in the next release. Maybe I'm a little blind, but i cant se any changes :-) Did you release any changes?

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luka-renko commented · May 27 at 07:24 PM

Or at least add some shadow to text, to make more contrast with background.

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Answer 9 · 2024-05-27T09:40:12Z

andrii-podanenko answered · May 27 at 09:40 AM

v3.40~17 works good on my both CerboGX for MultiRS Solar Dual tracker and MultiPlus-II 3000

Both DESS and non DESS setups are good

Dynamic and Static prices - no issues ( hardly tested )
MultiRS RS devices menu on gui-v1 - very promising, thank you

Interface - found a new "lack of context" for the Manual control for Relay modue - issue for translation - reported in Slack for Dirk-Jan

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Answer 10 · 2024-05-28T18:05:11Z

kurt-thu answered · May 28 at 06:05 PM

@jpetrell
I have one more request if simple and possible. I would be perfect to get the "generator" menu pop up when you push the generator in the main menu. Se attached photo.

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Kevin Windrem commented · May 28 at 06:42 PM

I would agree that the drill-down for the generator is a much faster way to access its controls. I'm wondering if the controls view is even necessary since all that's there can be accessed via drill-downs.

Also, with v3.40~18, tapping the generator tile pulls up the inverter/charger page which is not correct.

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Answer 11 · 2024-05-31T00:26:22Z

mphancock answered · May 31 at 12:26 AM

Really quick question, can the Beta GUI Remote Console be viewed with a browser that isn't Chromium based? I happen to use a Windows 10 Mobile phone (Edge browser) to view my remote console, but it doesn't load the new GUI. My Android phones (old and new) work just fine. I've tried to add as many keywords here as possible for searches as I couldn't find the answer. More than happy to change my setup, I was just after confirmation that this was the case. No other bugs for my use case, absolutely fantastic work.

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mr-manuel commented · May 31 at 04:00 AM

I don't think that there will be any support for Windows Phones anymore. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-mobile-end-of-support-faq-8c2dd1cf-a571-00f0-0881-bb83926d05c5

But you could try to Google your error or somethink like: Windows Phone webassembly not loading

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mphancock mr-manuel commented · May 31 at 06:14 AM

I was aware that there was no longer any support for Windows Phones, I was just searching for the answer as to why the GUI wouldn't be loading. Your search suggestion was what I was after and for anyone else interested, WebAssembly was never supported by Windows Phone (on it's version of Edge) and now never will be. Thanks so much for your help, I'll just change my interface to Android, easy done.

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beat commented · May 31 at 06:38 AM

I have same issue on Firefox Linux (latest), but no issue with Firefox on Android. No idea why, but it just gives a blue screen with Victron logo and error:

> venus-gui-v2

> Error: WebAssembly is not supported

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mphancock beat commented · May 31 at 10:29 AM

Interesting, I just thought I'd try out of curiosity and on Linux Mint (Cinnamon 21.3, Firefox 121.0) the GUI loads. Also, running Ubuntu 22.04 inside a VM with Firefox 100.0 it loads as well. You might have more luck yet with Linux than me with my Windows Phone.

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Answer 12 · 2024-05-31T15:29:10Z

trevora answered · May 31 at 03:29 PM

Will it be possible to add in an option to set the interface priority so that we can prioritise 4G LTE in preference to ethernet in instances where ethernet is being used for internal comms such as Modbus and does not have internet access?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 01 at 05:48 AM

Hi, I’m 99% sure that you can achieve this yourself, by not setting a default gateway on the lan.

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trevora mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 05 at 12:36 PM

I've already tried removing the default gateway on the lan and it does not work.

4G still disconnects.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ trevora commented · Jun 05 at 09:35 PM

Hey @TrevorA , thanks. Lets continue this discussion here: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/217603/using-modbus-tcp-and-gsm-modem-together.html?childToView=290446#comment-290446

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Answer 13 · 2024-06-02T10:07:17Z

matthew-hodder answered · Jun 02 at 10:07 AM

Running 3.40~20. On the standard screen GUI, timeout for the display is missing and I assume set to default as it never turns off.

Running non victron screen, guimods

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Kevin Windrem commented · Jun 02 at 03:18 PM

I'm seeing the Display off time setting on my Cerbo (also running GuiMods).

I'm also seeing the setting on my Raspberry PI using the "official 7" touch screen" and my RpiDisplaySetup package.

What display are you using and on what platform? Have you tried rebooting?

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matthew-hodder Kevin Windrem commented · Jun 03 at 11:11 AM

Running genuine Cerbo GX and a waveshare 7" touch panel. I usually just have to update a couple of config files on the cerbo for it to work, but the config options have always been there (the slider doesn't do anything, but the timeout worked).

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ matthew-hodder commented · Jun 05 at 09:36 PM

Hey @Matthew Hodder , I'm sorry - but that is not something we'll look into anytime soon.

Getting it all working 100% on Victron hardware has priority.

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matthew-hodder mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 09 at 11:04 AM

noted and fully understood - thankfully it fixed itself in 3.40~22. I did find the issue though - the blank_display_device.in file in /etc/venus/ kept deleting itself on reboot, I don't know if that causes issues with anything else, so just thought I would mention it in case it broke something else you need to know about.

Seems to be working fine now however on a later version.

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Answer 14 · 2024-06-02T17:04:59Z

bulanspatel answered · Jun 02 at 05:04 PM

Orion xs Dc-dc 50A disappearing from GUI v2.

After a couple of hours the generator symbol from overview/brief panel disappears. The device also disappears from the device list. Restarting Ekrano GX does not help. Removing the ve.direct cable and reinserting makes it pop up again (for a while). Using original victron ve.direct cables.

setup: smartshunt 500A, smart solar 30/100, phoenix 30A charger, Ekrano gx, temp sensors, Orion xs. “Has dc system - enabled”. All cables Victron original 3m + 1 usb to ve.direct. The other items never looses contact with Ekrano gx.

History: New system, been up and running in a boat for apprx 2 months. Problem with Orion xs loosing contact/communication has been a problem since the startup, been running latest beta builds from start, constantly updating when a new release is available.

Any ideas?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 05 at 09:41 PM

Good day @Bulanspatel , thank you for the report.

No immedate ideas. The most efficient would be that we can login in case this happens again - is that OK for you?

You'll then need to enable settings -> general -> remote support.

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bulanspatel mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 05 at 09:55 PM

That is fine by me. My guess is that the ve direct cables sits very sloppy in the back of the Ekrano gx. (Like a worn out old micro usb cable that is very sensitive to the angle it sits)

I’ve now added a bunch of cable ties trying to secure the cables even better (had bundled them with cable ties before but have now tried to make the them tie it “into” the connectors)

I’ll get back to you next time I’ve been out if it helped and was a hardware issue.

While I’m at it - is there any Victron recommended solution for securing the cables? The weight of the cable itself seems to be enough for it to loosen when the ekrano is mounted vertically (as it normally should be)

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bulanspatel mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · yesterday

Solved with more cable ties

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Answer 15 · 2024-06-03T11:08:29Z

andreas-siebenmorgen answered · Jun 03 at 11:08 AM

Update takes (too) much time.

Today I updatet from ~18 to ~20. Installing this update took about 10-15 minutes on my cerbo. That seems to be very long. My cerbo is in production, but easy loaded with just a few node red flows.

Another cerbo which was update from ~1 to ~20 was much faster, just about 2 minutes.

This cerbo has a nearly clean setup with just a power meter connected.

Are 10-15 minuten usual for updatung my cerbo?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 05 at 09:42 PM

Hi @Andreas Siebenmorgen , no 10 to 15 minutes is not normal. My guess would be that that is most likely a network issue or something else not related to the GX itself.

I'm not concerned that there is a bug there.

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Answer 16 · 2024-06-04T13:23:09Z

kurt-thu answered · Jun 04 at 01:23 PM

@jpetrell

First of all. Another thx for all the hard work you do for all of us who have a huge benefit by the work you do!! You ROCK our Victron World!!

I have one more request if its possible for you to fix this in a simple way and you agree with me :-)

Is it possible to make the widget smaller and have two lines in the menu for levels? As you can se in the picture, we don't get all of the environment in the boat on the same page. It would have been great if it was possible to see at least 8 widgets on one page in 2 lines.

Hope my English was understandable :-)

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Kevin Windrem commented · Jun 04 at 03:14 PM

I also would like to see less real estate used for each temp/humidity. It seems there's lots of space for narrower tiles.

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Jeremy Albrecht Kevin Windrem commented · Jun 04 at 03:42 PM

Agreed. Some amount of automatic scaling might be nice. Wide when there's only a couple tiles, then shrink to fit until they're down to some preset minimum as more tiles are added.

On a slight tangent, I'm also not quite sure what the point of tapping the gauges to get the same gauge in a "modal" type view is.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ Jeremy Albrecht commented · Jun 05 at 09:44 PM

Hey both, noted! Lets see.

Note that for now, the focus is to get gui-v2 finished and out of the door, this will be considered and then perhaps worked on only later. Not now.

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matthew-hodder mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 09 at 11:12 AM

just adding my 2 cents - perhaps even a toggle in settings for the sensors to hide/show the available readings - IE, most of my sensors show temp and humidity - but out of my 8 sensors, humidity is only relevant for one of them, I don't want/need to see it for the rest - that would save a lot of space.

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luka-renko matthew-hodder commented · Jun 11 at 10:08 AM

I agree with option to hide some data for some sensors (like humidity)

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Answer 17 · 2024-06-05T22:00:13Z

mvader (Victron Energy) answered · Jun 05 at 10:00 PM

Hi @Bulanspatel , I'd think that adding a cable mount below the Ekrano, to keep the cable up, should be sufficient.

I'll await your feedback on the results of the next time being out.

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Answer 18 · 2024-06-06T07:58:07Z

andrii-podanenko answered · Jun 06 at 07:58 AM

Installed Venus OS v3.40~21 on my MultiRS Dual Tracker setup

First bug

Second one

Duplicated device in gui-v2 yet, reported on GitHub https://github.com/victronenergy/gui-v2/issues/1142#issuecomment-2151633272

Third one

MultiRS ESS Mode - Unknown ( was working on previous beta )

Everything else seems like working ok

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andrii-podanenko commented · Jun 06 at 08:16 AM

Works ok on MultiPlus-II

So limit current issue only for MultiRS changes @mvader (Victron Energy)

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ andrii-podanenko commented · Jun 07 at 04:31 AM

Thank you for the report!

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Answer 19 · 2024-06-06T12:45:50Z

Kaj Lehtinen answered · Jun 06 at 12:45 PM

Something strange is happening in my three phase ESS installation, its running Venus OS 3.40~20 version.

I've set it up so that when Solar charges the system up to a SoC above 97% it kicks off forced extra heating of warmwater in the afternoon on weekdays. The water heater consumes approx 6 Kw and its set to run for an hour.

PV is pushing in approx 6 Kw, battery is at 99% and minimum SoC set to 20%, Maximum inverter power set to 9000W and Grid Setpoint = 0W peak shaving set to always and 16 Amps.

Why does the system draw 1.5 Kw from grid in the above scenario and the battery continues to charge? No the Pylontech BMS isn't preventing discharge, DCL states 666 Amp max discharge allowed.

As a side note, @Dirk-Jan Faber (Victron Energy) I had DESS switched on under VRM settings, but switched off in the side panel of the main VRM dashboard - suspecting that had something to do with the above I tried to go into VRM settings and switch off DESS - I got an error that said that something was wrong, please try again in a couple of minutes. Tried also to edit the 'Maximum export power' parameter under VRM DESS Settings but it gave me the same error. Only after switching on DESS in the VRM side panel it worked switching off DESS in the VRM settings.

/Kaj

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Kaj Lehtinen commented · Jun 06 at 12:56 PM

One speculation as to why the system behaves as described above - can it be the following: I have Grid Feed in set to feed in excess DC-coupled PV and the system has been doing that already for some time today, would the ESS logic take the excess amount of power thats already been exported into account and offset that with grid consumption to get at grid setpoint = 0W?

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Answer 20 · 2024-06-06T22:12:04Z

daniel-feist answered · Jun 06 at 10:12 PM

Any plans for gui-v2 to differenciate between "AC Loads" and "Critical Loads" in the overview?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 04:30 AM

Maybe, but then it will be after the first official release - making that is the main priority now.

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Answer 21 · 2024-06-07T00:05:26Z

markus-001 answered · Jun 07 at 12:05 AM

Negative grid consumption value showing as a positive. EM24 with CT’s Ethernet unit. We set our grid set point to negative 2100 to compensate for the 1mva transformer loses which are around 2200w. So our actual net zero is a negative 2100 which is now showing as 2100 consumption. On the VRM it’s fine shows -2100w

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 04:29 AM

Hey @Markus_001 can you post a screenshot?

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markus-001 mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 11:25 AM

@mvader (Victron Energy)

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ojack markus-001 commented · Jun 07 at 11:34 AM

The green arrow pointing to the left infront of the value 2124W indicates that this is feed-in.

If it was consumption the arrow would point to the right and would be blue.

The value itself is shown as amount so the sign is always positive.

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ojack ojack commented · Jun 07 at 11:36 AM

As you can see at your screenshot below

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beat ojack commented · Jun 07 at 12:22 PM

From an UX perspective, the arrow should imho be bigger and recognizable as a real arrow, i.e. with a tail. -->

Indeed, the arrow (like the sign of any number) is way more important than the number itself, and thus should deserve at least the visibility and readability of a a digit on the screen.

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markus-001 mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 11:31 AM

@mvader (Victron Energy) sorry my mistake, I see there’s a small green arrow that indicates reverse or negative, I didn’t notice the small arrow yesterday

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Answer 22 · 2024-06-07T00:20:19Z

markus-001 answered · Jun 07 at 12:20 AM

gui-v1 Fronius is now on the ac out instead of on AC - in1 VRM is ok still showing correctly on the input side of the quatro. What is the possibility of splitting the PV power up into two separate readings in the new gui-2 same as gui-1 it was better to spot a problem with the Fronius pv inverter separate. Our automatic transfer switch uses a digital input on the Cerbo and node red to change the PV inverters position during a grid failure.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 04:28 AM

Hey @Markus_001 , in gui-v2 we’re no longer splitting the solar up into multiple boxes.

All power input and generation is on the left, storage and conversion is in the middle column, and loads are in the column on the right.

are you saying that you also have an issue in gui-v1 ? And are you using guimods?

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markus-001 mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 05:37 AM

No guimods I just use node red to change the PV inverter position. Digital input open PV inverter on input

Digital input closed PV inverter on output

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markus-001 mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 05:57 AM

What would be the possibility of detailing the DC PV in a smaller print on a line below the total PV then populate the AC coupled PV on the next line if there is indeed AC PV in the system similar to the detailing of L1 L2 L3 in the Grid box

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beat commented · Jun 07 at 08:47 AM

> Our automatic transfer switch uses a digital input on the Cerbo and node red to change the PV inverters position during a grid failure.

That looks like a very interesting setup! I like the idea of the input to change Fornius side automatically! That would allow to abide to the Victron "1:1 rule" with more AC PV power than MP-II power in summer, but still having more AC PV power during power failures in winter.

But while I understand switching for winter during nighttime, I don't understand why aren't you keeping the PV AC inverters on output also when operating on grid ? The 1:1 rule is important in off-grid mode. Don't you have huge transients and Fronius restarts when transfering them on power failure ?

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Answer 23 · 2024-06-07T07:47:05Z

ojack answered · Jun 07 at 07:47 AM

v3.40~22

Gauge for L1 is missing

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ojack commented · Jun 07 at 08:08 AM

Now sometimes the gauge for L1 appears. I'm not sure if it represents the real value. I'll observe this and report.

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Answer 24 · 2024-06-07T07:50:45Z

ojack answered · Jun 07 at 07:50 AM

v3.40~22

Translation for "auto-ranging" to german "Autoreichweite" is not correct. "Autoreichweite" means the range of an electric vehicle.

Better translation would be "Automatische Skalierung".

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Answer 25 · 2024-06-07T07:54:27Z

ojack answered · Jun 07 at 07:54 AM

v3.40~22

The ratio of the gauges to each other looks better. But it is exactly the other way round. L1 is the smallest value with the longest gauge and vice versa.

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Answer 26 · 2024-06-07T08:00:28Z

ojack answered · Jun 07 at 08:00 AM

v3.40~22

After update to v3.40~22 the remote console is no longer accessible via beta-vrm and production-vrm.

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ojack commented · Jun 07 at 08:09 AM

Same issue via my android phone vrm beta and production app.

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hcgrande commented · Jun 07 at 10:54 AM

Same issue here.

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ojack commented · Jun 07 at 01:43 PM

Same at LAN.

And GX Touch showes only a green dot.

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ojack commented · Jun 07 at 01:46 PM

Triggered a reboot via GUI V2 and everything seems to work normal at first view.

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ojack commented · Jun 07 at 02:15 PM

Updated to new v3.40~23 without any problems.

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Jeremy Albrecht commented · Jun 07 at 06:09 PM

I’m having the same issue. No remote console on LAN or via VRM. Didn’t work on ~22 or ~23, even after multiple reboots.

The GX Touch interface is still functional though.

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jpetrell commented · Jun 10 at 08:13 AM

> After update to v3.40~22 the remote console is no longer accessible via beta-vrm and production-vrm.

Sorry for the regression. Patch release provided with a fix, please update to v3.40~25.

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Answer 27 · 2024-06-07T08:56:28Z

ojack answered · Jun 07 at 08:56 AM

Is this only a labeling issue or is the switch for input limit doubled?

If I set a limit 20A for export as shown in the screenshot it is ignored.

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jpetrell commented · Jun 10 at 08:20 AM

Thanks! We will have a look.

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Answer 28 · 2024-06-08T10:39:41Z

pau1phi11ips answered · Jun 08 at 10:39 AM

In GUI V2: (tried on ~17 and v~23)

You can't set ESS > Scheduled Charging to 100%. It stops at 95%

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Answer 29 · 2024-06-08T15:22:06Z

Tony answered · Jun 08 at 03:22 PM

I have updated my Cerbo GX firmware to Venus OS v3.40~24. When I load VRM on my Android tablet and attempt to load Gui-v2 I get the following error message.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 08 at 08:13 PM

Hey @Tony yes, its an issue that many or even all systems will run into. We're currently building a new version (Venus OS v3.40~25) which fixes this.

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Tony mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 08 at 08:30 PM

Many thanks for the update

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Tony mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 08 at 10:53 PM

I have updated my Cerbo GX to OS v3.40~25 and the Gui-v2 issue in VRM is now working correctly.

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Jeremy Albrecht mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 09 at 03:20 AM

I’m not having any issues via VRM, but the remote console will not load over the LAN on ~25.

I get the same “Disconnected” error.

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jpetrell commented · Jun 10 at 08:11 AM

> When I load VRM on my Android tablet and attempt to load Gui-v2 I get the following error message.

Thanks for the report, sorry for the regression! Fixed in the latest release, please update to v3.40~25.

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Answer 30 · 2024-06-09T09:48:28Z

Dušan Klofutar answered · Jun 09 at 09:48 AM

Hello @mvader (Victron Energy) I would like to ask you again when the new interface will start working on the Raspberry pi 3b+ with the original display. The new interface only works for me via the Internet on the computer. There is no option to enable the new gui-v2 interface in the display settings on the Raspberry Pi.

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Dušan Klofutar commented · Jun 09 at 02:05 PM

Is there really no one who can answer me? Raspberry users...

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ojack Dušan Klofutar commented · Jun 09 at 02:24 PM

Why should Victron take care of users who use Venus OS on third-party hardware so early? I think it's absolutely fine that they're finishing GUI V2 on the original hardware first.

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pwfarnell Dušan Klofutar commented · Jun 10 at 07:46 AM

Per community guidelines Victron will not answer "when will product or update X be available".

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pau1phi11ips commented · Jun 09 at 05:49 PM

They are not going to support problems on Raspberry Pi when the new UI isn't even part the beta release yet.

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Answer 31 · 2024-06-09T11:35:13Z

patxi-toller answered · Jun 09 at 11:35 AM

Hi @mvader (Victron Energy), great job with gui-v.2.

A few writing mistake on Italian version 3.40-25:

Impostazioni: Firmaware (instead of Firmware)

Servizio clienti > bms-can port: sato della rete (instead of Stato della rete)

Servizio clienti > VE.can port: sato della rete (instead of Stato della rete)

In general, I noticed a mistake on Italian manuals of the English "by default", frequently translated with "per difetto".

In Italian the expression "per difetto" means "by approximation".

I think the correct translation should be: "per impostazione predefinita".

greetings from Verona

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 09 at 08:57 PM

thank you @Patxi Toller ,noted!

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Dirk-Jan Faber (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 10 at 05:45 AM

I've adjusted these in our translations system. They will be part of the next release.

Do note that "Per impostazione predefinitia" is quite a lot longer than the original "Default". So I hope it will still fit in all used positions.

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patxi-toller Dirk-Jan Faber (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 10 at 07:35 AM

Hi Dirk-Jan, in Italian lots of English words are used in daily speaking.

"Default" is one of these. In this case, the English "by default" o "default" is used as "di default".

i.e. (from Italian Orion XS manual):

"L'uscita è attiva per difetto" is meaningless in italian.

Must be translated with "L'uscita è attiva per impostazione predefinita" or "L'uscita è attiva di default".

ciao

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Answer 32 · 2024-06-10T18:17:11Z

Jeremy Albrecht answered · Jun 10 at 06:17 PM

On ~26 (and ~25 and ~23) I get the disconnected message for remote console on LAN. It’s always seemed to work for me on VRM, even on the versions that others were saying it didn’t.

This happens on all 4 devices I have available, and any browser on those devices.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 10 at 09:53 PM

That sounds like something that needs looking into. I've not seen any similar issues being reported. I'll ask someone to look into it - thank you reporting @Jeremy Albrecht

And, is it ok if one of our team logs in using Remote Support?

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Jeremy Albrecht mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Jun 10 at 10:04 PM

Thanks, and absolutely.

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