Venus OS v2.65~4 available for testing

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This question was closed Mar 18, 2021 at 07:37 PM by mvader (Victron Energy) for the following reason: See latest v2.65 beta series instead

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mvader (Victron Energy) asked Mar 6, '21

Venus OS v2.65~4 available for testing

Good evening,

After the first v2.65 public test version announced yesterday, today a follow-up. v2.65~4 is now available for testing.

See change log below.

As said my last post, the target timeline for this release is to finish and release before April.

This post is intended for all people participating in the Venus OS Beta test program.

Change log v2.65~4

Add support for the new GX Tank 140 USB accessory. (more info for that later; there is a link somewhere on community with details as well).
Add user-configurable filtering (1 to 60 seconds).
More improvements for the Inverter RS when connected via VE.Can
Stability improvements on the VE.Bus firmware updates, as well as better flow in case a VE.Bus BMS is connected (the application asks the user to arrange someone local to the system to disconnect the VE.Bus BMS; giving him/her 10 minutes for that).

Important: when upgrading to this version, all tank- and temperature configuration settings are migrated to a different format. In case you revert to a prior version, all related configuration will be reset to defaults.

All the best, Matthijs

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Answer 1 · 2021-03-06T23:34:50Z

n-dee answered · Mar 06, 2021 at 11:34 PM

Hi,

This one crashes my VE Can MPPTs
Not connected (is flickering) in Cerbo.

Back to ~3 and everything ok again.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 06:47 AM

Hi thank you. We’ll look into this

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 02:02 PM

there is definitively some issue with those types of mppts; I've received several reports now; we'll be looking at that next week.

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Answer 2 · 2021-03-07T05:10:14Z

dunnp answered · Mar 07, 2021 at 05:10 AM

As mentioned, the tank and temperature inputs are affected in this version and need a bit of work to get back to where they were. But the analog input page is really messed up!

This is how they look in v2.64 and earlier...

Now they look like...

This is much less intuitive and took a bit of trial and error to work out which were temperature and which were tank inputs. I hope this can be improved in a future version.

Is it possible to pickup the input types from dbus-adc.conf?

Some great enhancements in v2.65-x - eg being able to remove disconnected devices (tested and works a treat); adjustable averaging of tank levels (untested but a real pain point previously) and of course the VE.Bus firmware upgrade (about to test). Nice work.

Cheers

Phil

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 06:42 AM

Hi Phil,

Yes, here is an example:

device	adc/builtin0
vref	2.0625
scale	4095

product	0xa161

label	"Tank Level input 1"
tank	4

label	"Tank Level input 2"
tank	3

label	"Tank Level input 3"
tank	2

label	"Tank Level input 4"
tank	1

product	0xa162

label	"Temperature input 1"
temp	8

label	"Temperature input 2"
temp	7

label	"Temperature input 3"
temp	6

label	"Temperature input 4"
temp	5

thats the file we now have on the cerbo

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 06:43 AM

Ps for my own notes: you’re on a rpi

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 06:54 AM

Ps2: more info here: https://github.com/victronenergy/dbus-adc/blob/master/README.md. Also the sources are there, and commit log.

Success!

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Answer 3 · 2021-03-07T07:01:59Z

dunnp answered · Mar 07, 2021 at 07:01 AM

Just tried the VE.Bus f/ware update feature. No joy unfortunately. I got the following error twice and could go no further.

Multi is a 24/800/16 (model 2666) currently on v469. Venus is on a RPi on v2.65~4. I did a Venus reboot between attempts.

Phil

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 10:19 AM

Thank you for the report. Could be that it doesnt work with an MK3-USB. Most likely we didnt test for that. I’ll come back to this with most likely either that its fixed or confirmation that its not supported

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Warwick Bruce Chapman mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 11:02 AM

Holding thumbs for fixed!

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ Warwick Bruce Chapman commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 06:14 PM

Looks like your thumbs worked!

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dunnp mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 11:08 PM

Not sure what has changed but it still doesn't work for me :-(. I tried several more times but still get the same error. I even tried turning Docker off in case it was conflicting. The only other thing I can think of is a reboot of the Multi - but reluctant to do that.

Maybe I wait for v2.65~5??

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ dunnp commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 04:52 AM

Hi, Nothing changed yet. The news was that we’ll fix it

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dunnp mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 05:47 AM

Sorry Matthijs - misinterpreted your words and jumped the gun, thinking it was fixed. Phil

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ dunnp commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 05:56 AM

Haha well I was rather cryptic

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 18, 2021 at 07:36 PM

Remote vebus fw updates now also works when using a usb-mk3, such as when on a rpi.

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Answer 4 · 2021-03-07T09:50:29Z

kris answered · Mar 07, 2021 at 09:50 AM

There is no communication with Garmin GpsMap 8412 in v2.65 ~ 4.

The connection status remains in this position as shown in the picture

After reversing to 2.63 ~ 2, the communication works.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 10:19 AM

Hi, thanks. Thats an unexpected one - we’ll check next week!

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Answer 5 · 2021-03-07T12:03:54Z

roger-seibel answered · Mar 07, 2021 at 12:03 PM

With 265.v4 i am not able to login from ioBroker, 265.v3 works fine. No error messages or more infos available. Someting changed in this area?

EDIT: No login is a bit misleading, with v4 i get no data via mqtt or modbus.

Regards,
Roger

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 01:34 PM

Hi, I dont know what ioBroker is?

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Warwick Bruce Chapman commented · Mar 07, 2021 at 06:18 PM

Roger, what do you mean “log in” from ioBroker? Tell us more about what you’re doing with Venus from ioBroker?

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roger-seibel Warwick Bruce Chapman commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 01:16 PM

I am using ioBroker with Modbus-Adapter and Nod-RED with MQTT to connect to the Venus GX to read values, calculate some things and set for example the setpoint. For ioBroker and Node-RED you should find enough infos via google ;-)

As software engineer i am using these producst for my smarthome (deCONZ Zigbee for connecting my lights an switches, modules for fritzbox, lupusec alarm system, ..., homebridge for connection to apple homekit ...)

Some example pics for a first info:

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ roger-seibel commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 06:13 PM

Hi, sounds cool, but for me to find out whats wrong I do need more detailed information.

Do you have an issue connecting to modbustcp on the gx device?

Or mqtt?

You mention both in your email.

And in case of mqtt, you do it via our online brokers, or locally?

Both seem to work here: http://venus.local/app works, which uses the local mqtt. And VRM realtime works, which uses the online brokers.

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roger-seibel mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 11:51 AM

Everything is local. http://venus.local/app is working with v3, says endless connecting ... with V4, same problem as in next entry from kris. There is a short message (< one second), but the mentioned settings are ok an unchanged.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ roger-seibel commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 12:03 PM

hi, thank you; that helps. Can I login to your system to see whats wrong? Please then enable General -> Remote Support.

So far, on all systems I check on our lab they all work; so would be great to see whats different on yours.

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roger-seibel mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 03:10 PM

Done.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ roger-seibel commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 08:55 PM

Thank you, logged in and found something. More news (and most likely simply a new version with a fix) soon

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Answer 6 · 2021-03-09T04:12:47Z

djghosie answered · Mar 09, 2021 at 04:12 AM

I've tried the RC4 for a day so far and seems to be getting quite a lot of disconnect with the solar charger (SmartSolar Charger MPPT 100/20 48V ) for data reading.

I've now reverted back to the latest stable and everything went back to normal.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 05:43 AM

Hi, thank you for the report. Is it ok if we login to your system?

You’ll need to enable settings -> general -> remote support, disabled by default.

I did find the installation on VRM.

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djghosie mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 10, 2021 at 07:10 AM

OK, I'll try to install the RC again.

Yes, you are most welcomed to log into my system .

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djghosie djghosie commented · Mar 10, 2021 at 07:30 AM

Another thing I just noteiced. With the lastest RC installed, does it not provide "realtime" update anymore?

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n-dee djghosie commented · Mar 10, 2021 at 10:39 AM

Hi, it provides realtime data but it seems as there is some ongoing work @VRM portal as last actualisation shows 2 min ago although it is realtime.

Furthermore there are some translation-bugs. For exemple it shows %%KEY_NOT_FOUND%% in weather (at least in german version)

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ djghosie commented · Mar 10, 2021 at 12:24 PM

Thanks, realtime not working is being looked into, most likely the same issue as Roger and Kris reported. Fails in some systems, and others not. Will be fixed in next test version.

any %KEY-NOT-FOUND is something else. I’ll check that as aell.

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Answer 7 · 2021-03-09T06:01:18Z

alan-peng answered · Mar 09, 2021 at 06:01 AM

Hello,

It seems we got a issue when try to update the VE bus firmware. The confirm button was disabled. The GX device is Cerbo. We use Safari and Edge browser on Mac system.

Alan

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Teun Lassche ♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 06:24 AM

Hi Alan!

This is now fixed!

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alan-peng Teun Lassche ♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 07:26 AM

Yes, test update firmware successfully. Thanks for quick fixed.

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Answer 8 · 2021-03-09T09:57:07Z

harold answered · Mar 09, 2021 at 09:57 AM

Just to be shure, 2.64 will not be released? You go direct to 2.65?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 10:39 AM

Hi Harold, yes v2.64 has been released already; but only has some changes for the procedure in the factory: we didn't push it to the auto update system, since that would cause 10000s of systems to update themselves for nothing.

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harold mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 09, 2021 at 09:04 PM

Clear

Thanks

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