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Venus OS v3.40~29 available for testing

Good evening!

Here is a new fresh thread for the v3.40 beta tests.

We're coming closer and closer to an official release for gui-v2. Aside from the usual smaller improvements, this one has two slightly larger ones:

  1. Networking (WiFi, LAN) can now be set-up via gui-v2
  2. Multi RS is better supported

Any comments on those are appreciated! And also hereby a big thank you for all input and comments. Its really a herculean task to re-implement the UI of Venus OS, and without all your input it would have never been possible to get it to todays state.

The rest of this post is similar to the old one, except for small updates and ofcourse a completed change log.

All the best, Matthijs


Main highlight: our new UI, gui-v2 beta

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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.
    • 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, Kevinā€™s 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: donā€™t 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

v3.40~27, 28 and 29

  • gui-v2 beta
    • Add Modbus TCP/UDP device settings
    • Add AC charger settings
    • UI changes for genset settings
    • Show DC flow for Multi RS and Inverter RS
    • CAN Profiles: add the High Voltage CAN bus as an option
    • Hide controlling BMS setting if BMS is unavailable
    • Calculate tank average level from capacities, not levels
    • Avoid duplicate multi devices on the Control cards page
    • MQTT: ensure the portal id parameter is set before connecting
    • Disable SD/USB card eject button during firmware installation
    • Flicking improvements to the Control card page
    • Fixes to device firmware version labels, e.g. non-Victron Can Bus BMS
    • Fix broken password character on GX devices
    • Fix firmware update toasts on launch
    • Fix AC export current switch label
    • Fix wrong unit on EVCS energy label on the Overview page
    • Allow setting ESS scheduled charging level to 100%
    • Updated translations
  • gui: improvements to genset menu (DSE, ComAp), (also released as v3.33)


ESS

  • Fix bug in peak shaving / AC export current limit feature:
    • PV feedin was not limited optionally in case the peak shaving option was set to "Above minimum SOC only", instead of "Always".


ModbusTCP

  • Add settings for UPS, boost factor and Inverter voltage. This replaces the same registers added earlier, since they didn't work properly. In the new implementation, the registers control these settings for all devices in the VE.Bus system.
    • 106: Boostfactor
    • 107: Inverter output voltage
    • 108: PowerAssist enabled yes/no
    • 109: UPS function enabled yes/no


Venus OS Large - Node-RED


Internal / under the hood:

  • Lynx Smart BMS & Lynx Smart BMS NG: parallel feature: fix not being able to manually select the Lynx parallel BMS in the DVCC menu. This relates to a new feature coming in a future firmware version of these BMSes.
  • Further preparations on Multi RS related functionality for a future RS firmware version (ESS / Dynamic ESS)
  • EVCS: prepare for remote access via VRM to the EVCS settings pages
  • Linux kernel: add various netfilter modules needed for Tailscale when using its subnet routing feature.


v3.40~26

  • gui-v2 v0.3.4
    • Add support for RS system
    • Add passthrough support for Inverter/Charger mode dialogs
    • Improvements to solar tracker history and dialog
    • Performance improvements to the Brief and Overview pages
    • Ethernet and Wi-Fi network settings can now be accessed from the browser
    • Usability improvements to Wi-Fi settings
    • Avoid Android keyboard opening repeatedly after text input
    • Use 5" inch layout when opening gui-v2 on a mobile browser (tablets and desktop still use 7" layout)
    • Show total capacity and number of connected BMSes for Lynx parallel BMS
    • Show absolute value on bar gauges when feeding power to the grid
    • MQTT: Require portal id for VRM connections
    • Close side panel when detecting high CPU usage
    • Fix battery charging animation

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 ā€œhammeredā€ as a result of bugs in third party / diy code bases that connect to our MQTT brokers in VRM.
  • MQTT: donā€™t send data to VRM brokers in case its requested from local LAN, reduces unnecessary internet traffic & load.

Known issue: gui-v2 doesnā€™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

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:

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

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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:


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


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

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·

Good morning! Just now we've released Venus OS v3.33 officially. Announcement here: https://professional.victronenergy.com/news/detail/250/.

Meanwhile, v3.40~26 remains available for download as a beta version.

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
Good day! per just now, Venus OS v3.40~29 available for testing. Details added in the main change log.
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Hey, great, now the length of the gauges matches.
I would prefer the battery to be displayed in W instead of voltage and current in the "brief" view. Maybe with an green/blue arrow to show charge/discharge or simply +/- .

Brief view seems to be a kind of rough overview that should be readable even by laypeople. Or am I wrong?

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luka-renko avatar image luka-renko commented Ā·
I like that V and A are shown on battery, as it is clear if there is higher V due to charging. A are also useful, as always when I see 80-100A it is clear that my cables are under high load (I could get used to W though).


Maybe just adding also W to that display, could be below as on you mockup.
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ojack avatar image ojack luka-renko commented Ā·

I think it depends on who the brief view is for.

If it is intended for the layman without technical understanding, then V and A are rather confusing. W is something most people should understand.

Maybe it should be made configurable? There is already a menu to select what measurements you what to display in the middle of brief page. So just add there the three units with checkboxes to select what you want to have.

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ojack avatar image ojack commented Ā·

And something else I would change about the 'brief' view:

I would make the speed at which the gauges and values change much slower so that the view is smoother. Due to the lack of scales, the gauges are not exact measuring instruments anyway. So there is no need to display every little change immediately and frantically.

I would also reduce the frequency and speed of the rotating battery bar.

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Evgeniy Labunskiy answered Ā·

I've started to have this message from time to time I think from version 3.40/20. It's also hard to connect to cerbo using mobile app, stuck at 40% load. Using direct web access cerbo is responsive.

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The font size for voltage, current and power of the battery in the overview display changes depending on the values displayed.
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There is a check whether the labels fit comfortably, if not a smaller font size is used. But if that causes oscillation that is not good.
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Yesterday I tried v3.40~26 GUI V2 on my GX Touch 50.

Everything is going well so far.
The only thing is that the little dots that symbolize the flow of energy on the 'overview' page are not moving smoothly. They sometimes stop for a few seconds.

Via VRM GUI V2 the dots move smoothly. And at GUI V1 on GX Touch 50 as well.

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jpetrell avatar image jpetrell commented Ā·

> little dots that symbolize the flow of energy on the 'overview' page are not moving smoothly. They sometimes stop for a few seconds.

Are the pauses something that started now or something you have also seen earlier? The performance optimizations in v3.40~26 might have cause this. The animation is played in lower frame rate in GX device compared to VRM build to save CPU.

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ojack avatar image ojack jpetrell commented Ā·

I had already observed this in v3.40~17 and posted on May 25th. I have not tried it in versions 18-25.

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freher answered Ā·

My system no longer shows the battery temperature in the overview, although it is apparently available (see pictures). A reboot etc. did not bring any change. I can't say whether this is due to the recent change from the ā€œnormalā€ SmartShunt to the SmartShunt IP65 - I definitely didn't notice the absence before.


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jpetrell avatar image jpetrell commented Ā·
Thanks! Reported.
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A few issues for gui-v2 provided with v3.40~26:

Drilldown for AC input leads to the inverter/charger page. This should lead to a page specific to the AC input and if the input type is generator provide controls for start/stop and autostart.

There is no drill down for the AC output. This could show details for critical and non-critical loads.

Generator portion of control page shows "The Generator will start and stop based on autostart conditions" when autostart is turned off.

The warning dialog regarding turning off autostart appears when turning autostart ON.

I would move the ac input current limit to the AC input drill down. It is more closely associated with the AC input than it does with the inverter/charger.

Is the control page necessary at all? If the AC input drill down includes generator start/stop and the inverter/charger drill down includes the inverter mode then the control page is redundant.

The tabs at the bottom (Brief, Overview, etc) don't appear when in a Settings submenu. You need to back out to the top level of this menu to select another display and this could be many clicks of the < button.

The solar gauge is drawn top to bottom but the DC loads gauge is drawn bottom to top.

Accessing the drill downs requires a first tap to access the tabs at the bottom of the screen. A single tap should call up the drill down.

I find that the tabs disappear just about the time I go to tap on one of them or the control or side view buttons.

On the tanks page, the level changes while the tabs appar and disappear. Say a tank is at 50%. When you tap on the screen to expose the tab, the level dips down to about 47% then grows back to 50%. When the tabs disappear, the level grows about 52-43% then reduces to 50%. This shift does not occur for temps or humidity.

The levels shown below the percentage are confusing (6/30, 0/30, 2/4, 4/4...). I don't think it is necessary to show the tank capacity, just what is currently in the tank.

The fluid type is not shown on a tanks gauge. All that's shown is "Tank sensor". The icon seems to be drawn correctly but we really need what the fluid is as text. Custom names for the tanks that support them (Mopeka LP tank sensors) DO appear. Custom names for all tanks is really needed even if the sensor system does not support names. But he fluid type needs to be displayed if there is no custom name entered by the installer.

As someone else mentioned, the system name is not shown anywhere on gui-v2's pages. It is shown on Settings / System setup but really needs to appear on the top line. This is especially true for VRM where a system installer may be managing many systems.

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jpetrell avatar image jpetrell commented Ā·

Thanks, a lot of great feedback! We are currently focusing on bugs and maturisation to get 1.0 out, but improvement ideas are of course welcome too. For some reason could not reproduce "the warning dialog regarding turning off autostart appears when turning autostart ON" on Ekrano. What kind of system do you have?

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> Accessing the drill downs requires a first tap to access the tabs at the bottom of the screen. A single tap should call up the drill down

I second this one. I noticed the same today and it is quite frustrating and unnecessary.

Really fantastic UI overall though, total game changer for the industry.

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Why not just have left and right swipe to go from brief <> overview <> tanks <> temperature <> brief rather than having to tap on the screen and then selecting an icon at the bottom so you can quickly just cycle right through your system displays without needing several button presses, it the the most missed thing and the first thing my wife complained about when I put gui 2 on our boat.

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luka-renko avatar image luka-renko commented Ā·
Very good suggestion, particularly as buttons for pages get hidden.
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ojack avatar image ojack commented Ā·
I tried it. Swiping works. But unfortunately only after tapping once before.
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Lukas Ronge answered Ā·

Hello, EVCS tile in Overview tab has wrong units in charged energy, in detail (after click on tile) is everything Ok.

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jpetrell avatar image jpetrell commented Ā·

> EVCS tile in Overview tab has wrong units in charged energy

Yikes! Thanks for the report, we will fix in the next release.

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After upgrading from 3.10 to 3.40~26 I do not get some MQTT messages. After booting the backup image 3.10 I do get the MQTT messages again.


At least following are missing but not sure if there are more missing

  • battery pylontech Soc
  • battery pylontech Dc/0/Temperature

Further I get additional 'system' messages I didn't subscribe.


Were there any changes?


This is my keepalive script (Python). Run every 30 seconds.

from paho.mqtt import client as mqtt
from json import dumps
from time import sleep

victron_ip ="<VenusOS IP>"
victron_id = "<Cerbo ID>"
client_id = "mqttbridge"

client = mqtt.Client(
    #mqtt.CallbackAPIVersion.VERSION2, # for newer mqtt lib, Debian Trixie
    client_id                          # identify client
                     )
client.connect(victron_ip)

subscriptions: list = [
    'solarcharger/+/CustomName',
    'solarcharger/+/Dc/0/Voltage',
    'solarcharger/+/Dc/0/Current',
    'solarcharger/+/Pv/V',
    'solarcharger/+/Yield/Power',
    'vebus/+/CustomName',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/+/V',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/+/I',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/+/F',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/+/P',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/+/S',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/P',
    'vebus/+/Ac/Out/S',
    'pvinverter/+/CustomName',
    'pvinverter/+/Ac/Power',
    'pvinverter/+/Ac/+/Current',
    'pvinverter/+/Ac/+/Power',
    'battery/+/CustomName',
    'battery/+/Dc/0/Current',
    'battery/+/Dc/0/Power',
    'battery/+/Dc/0/Voltage',
    'battery/+/Dc/0/Temperature',
    'battery/+/Soc',
    'battery/+/Soh',
    ]

def keepaliveVenus():
    client.publish(f"R/{victron_id}/keepalive", dumps(subscriptions))

keepaliveVenus()
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Christian Lindermann avatar image Christian Lindermann commented Ā·

Hi. As far as I can remember, it is no longer possible to subscribe to individual devices with the new MQTT server.

Try using an empty payload in the keep alive script.

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ Christian Lindermann commented Ā·

indeed, see here: https://github.com/victronenergy/dbus-flashmq?tab=readme-ov-file#migrating-from-previous-versions-and-backwards-compatability

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runout answered Ā·

As this is a release with lots of new stuff, please add a setting for defining a (local) NTP server. This is crucial for remote sites without outside connectivity.

https://community.victronenergy.com/idea-comment/293405/view.html

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·

not anytime soon I'm afraid, focus is elsewhere now. And what you're asking is really a niche feature / however nice. I'll drop a comment in that thread.

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alan-peng answered Ā·

There are quite a few untranslated(Chinese) items in UI devices for recent beta versions. No such issue at earlier beta version.

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jpetrell avatar image jpetrell commented Ā·
Thanks! Reported, we will have a look.
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I have a problem with 3 quatroā€™s not not keeping to the maximum inverter power. I had to limit the grid import ampā€™s to reduce the maximum current feed back and overloading the Pylontech batteries. This is an intermittent problem and it seems it has something to do with Peak Shaving as this only happened when I changed peak shaving values. If I switch the maximum inverter limit on and off a few times then suddenly the system fixes its self and no issues until I change peak shaving values again and then as I said sometimes changing the value does not affect the system.

I also see there is a firmware update

xxxx551

June 11, 2024

ā€¢ Adjusted some regulation constants for the standard MultiPlus/Quattroā€™s (non Multiplus-II devices) to solve the issue that in some installations the requested power setpoint was not followed for no apparent reason.

Is this possibly related.

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
Hey @Markus_001 sorry to hear that

Yes could be related, quite hard to say.

I suggest updating to v551 first. And if that doesnā€™t solve it, contact your distributor for further official support

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gregoryx answered Ā·

Not seeing this reported... but if running GUIv2 on CerboGX (last few versions including 3.40~26), the screen / display timeouts don't seem to work. If I move back to the standard GUI, they work as expected.

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
Hi, what display are you using?


On my Cerbo + GX Touch, the timeout works perfectly - after 10 seconds the GX touch turns off.

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Venus OS v3.40~26

BMS Communication Lost RS 450/100

After the update to the lastest Beta firmware, like 1 day later started getting BMS commuincation lose,

MPPT 150/35 was working perfectly, cerbo gx was reporting that and the screen of the RS.

Vrm lost the connection to RS 450/100 aand later disappeared from the cerbo gx device list. it was remote installation from Africa, sent somebody to turn of the RS450/100 same result.

Gear was: Multiplus II 2x in Parallel, RS 450/100, MPPT 150/35 and Pylontech batterries

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
thanks for reporting, we'll look at that.
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rickc answered Ā·

US split phase configuration with ESS.

Shouldnā€™t the total watts be shown in the grid box?

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Thanks


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Just installed 3.40~29.

I no longer see Critical Loads and AC Loads boxes in the old GUI, or with VRM.

EDIT: Disregard, the Inverter AC Output in Use was magically or accidentally disabled.
I assume 3.40~29 would not just turn it off.

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
@rickc - thanks you, also for the update.


Weā€™ll keep an eye on it, but I donā€™t expect any of the changes made recently to cause that setting to turn off by itself.

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The system consists of a Fronius Symo (three phase) at the input and a Fronius Primo (one phase) at the output of a Quattro. Firmware v3.40~26

The solar yield on the overview page is sometimes displayed in a large frame (which remains mostly empty - the outputs of the three phases are not displayed when the Primo is in operation) and sometimes with a small frame. This reducing the space in the grid frame. The display appears random and cannot be changed.
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@mvader (Victron Energy) Fronius control is working again. If I have ac coupled feed in switched on and set the DVCC down to 10amp the Fronius starts limiting again to honor the maximum charge current set in DVCC

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Evgeniy Labunskiy answered Ā·

Folks, is it ok that I have this message after installing .29 update on MultiRS system: "Gateway - Dynamic ESS error code: ESS functionality not available"?

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
Hi @Evgeniy Labunskiy , no - that sounds like a bug. We'll look into that - thanks!
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Thank you! I suppress error for now. But I have Dynamic ESS menu now, will it make effect if I try to configure it?
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andrii-podanenko avatar image andrii-podanenko mvader (Victron Energy) ā™¦ā™¦ commented Ā·
Same was on my setup @mvader (Victron Energy) - related to chat in Slack

It's a same bug/"too soon" feature tagged

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markus-001 answered Ā·

gui-v2 beta, ESS -> Maximum inverter power setting goes down to -1 watt instead of ā€œzeroā€ wich then automatically switches off the slide bar ā€œ Limit inverter powerā€ when you press the button set. Now you have maximum inverter power when you actually wanted zero.

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Hi. I'm not sure if it's already been addressed, but with the current beta I'm having problems with the connection to the ruuvi sensors. I moved from stable to beta and everything was very stable before, but now the sensors completely disappear from time to time.

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andrii-podanenko answered Ā·

Installed v3.40~29 on my MultiRS setup

Thanks for having MultiRS DC on VRM dash

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Dynamic ESS VRM config menu appeared, reported in Slack. Not functional yet

No issues spotted, feels stable on my setup, thanks


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luka-renko answered Ā·

I have ~29 and have turned MultiPlus Off, but I still get Hz reading on AC Out?
How can this be, since inverter is off and shore power is not connected?

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Kevin Windrem avatar image Kevin Windrem commented Ā·
I noticed this also and did some testing. If the Multi is turned off via the GX device both AC in and out show valid frequency. If AC input is disconnected then the output still shows frequency.

If the Multi is turned off via it's front panel switch and the AC input is disconnected, the AC output frequency is no longer valid.

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