Venus OS v2.65~5 available for testing

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mvader (Victron Energy) asked Mar 11, '21

Venus OS v2.65~5 available for testing

Good day!

A new beta version, v2.65~5 is now available to be field tested.

Changes are below. Thank you @Alan Peng, @Harold, @djghosie, @N-DEE, @Kris, @Roger Seibel, @warwick as well as @dunnp for the feedback. Much appreciated!

The current status & plan for v2.65 is that we're nearly done on the new Remote VE.Bus Firmware updates (more information about that), most if not all reported issues have been fixed, and a few other new features are on our list to test and complete. The goal remains to release and finish this version still this month.

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

Change log v2.65~5

Various improvements on the Remote VE.Bus firmware update feature, including that it now works on RaspberryPis.
Fix connection issue to Solar Chargers via VE.Can
Fix a few small formatting issue in the HTML5 App
Fix the connection issues in VRM Realtime and the HTML5 App. The problem was that the MQTT data stream got stuck on certain system configurations.

Earlier change logs:

All the best, Matthijs

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Answer 1 · 2021-03-11T20:11:24Z

roger-seibel answered · Mar 11, 2021 at 08:11 PM

everything works again, thanks!

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Answer 2 · 2021-03-12T02:31:50Z

dunnp answered · Mar 12, 2021 at 02:31 AM

I'd love to say the remote VE.Bus f/w upgrade worked, but I hit a snag. The actual f/w got upgraded to v481 but the reload of the config did not work and I had to resort to VE.Configure to get it working (ie charging, ignore AC etc) again.

I didn't grab any screenshots so am working from (imperfect) memory here... There was a message to the effect that the connection was lost; there were 3 attempts to reconnect then an error message to say it failed and try again later. I'm not sure if I did something wrong along the way, but I did get a strange message (in red) from the Mk3 saying 'Mk3 has bad firmware, do you want to fix it?' I hit Yes and was then able to load a previously saved config file and get everything working again.

My little test system is a Multi 24/800 now on v481 and RPi on v2.65~5 talking to Multi via Mk3-USB plus BMV and MPPT. I'm interested if anyone else has had success with a RPI-based setup?

Cheers

Phil

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 12, 2021 at 06:40 AM

We’ll check what happened, is it ok if we login to your gx device / rpi using the remote support feature?

And is your perhaps rpi powered on the ac out of the inverter?

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 12, 2021 at 06:42 AM

Or is your internet connection powered bu the inverter? Ie your modem?

and lastly, its your systems called “shed” I suppose?

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dunnp mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 12, 2021 at 07:01 AM

Yes it is called ‘shed’. RPi is powered from battery and unaffected by the inverter but there is a router powered from the inverter that would have dropped the network if the inverter stopped working.

You are most welcome to login.

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Answer 3 · 2021-03-12T06:18:17Z

n-dee answered · Mar 12, 2021 at 06:18 AM

VE-CAN MPPTs got notification "devices missing" @ bootup but were found again and are working now.
Unfortunately I'm on newest Multi-firmware so not able to test the upgrade procedure

VRM working for me. Realtime data ok, no more "invalid keys". One thing remains: in the overview of installations the one that has realtime still shows last actualisation a minute ago / two minute ago etc.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 18, 2021 at 07:41 PM

Thanks n-dee. That installation overview issue is not related to v2.65. Or is it?

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n-dee mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 19, 2021 at 07:59 AM

no - thats not specific to 2.65~5, I think thats website-related.

VE-CAN MPPTs missing notification will be displayed at each bootup now. so this might be related to firmwareupgrade. Have this also in ~7

regards,
Andy

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Answer 4 · 2021-03-15T19:57:11Z

philippe answered · Mar 15, 2021 at 07:57 PM

Just to say that the firmware update of the multiplus worked smoothly (bearbendum). No bugs found up to know. Good job done.

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mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented · Mar 18, 2021 at 07:38 PM

Thanks Philippe!

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Answer 5 · 2021-03-16T17:33:25Z

hummingbear answered · Mar 16, 2021 at 05:33 PM

With every update I always have to re-toggle "Has DC System" as my DC information disappears. I also have to re-select the battery monitor and shared temperature sensor. Slightly annoying but by now I know to do it :)

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