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Venus GX - FzSonick battery disconnecting and reconnecting after FW 2.72

After the firmware upgrade to version 2.72 of the Venues GX it no longer has a stable connection to the RS485-USB serial cable. The Serial cable is connected to the battery and the external smart meter. As a result the ESS stops and starts. No changes have been made to the cable or serial devices. The only change was firmware. If you log into the cat /data/log/dbus-fzsonick-48tl.ttyUSB0/current you can see the unit open the port connect and get data, then disconnect and start the process again.

Error

@40000000610ca1860d8186f4 changes['Text'] = self.GetText()
@40000000610ca1860d9950cc File "/opt/victronenergy/dbus-fzsonick-48tl/ext/velib_python/vedbus.py", line 474, in GetText
@40000000610ca1860da270bc return self._gettextcallback(self.__dbus_object_path__, self._value)
@40000000610ca1860dd730a4 File "/opt/victronenergy/dbus-fzsonick-48tl/dbus-fzsonick-48tl.py", line 169, in <lambda>
@40000000610ca1860df1e0ac gettextcallback=lambda _, v: sig.get_text(v))
@40000000610ca1860e1a8ad4 File "/opt/victronenergy/dbus-fzsonick-48tl/convert.py", line 86, in get_text
@40000000610ca1860e1e9dcc return "{0}{1}".format(str(v), unit)
@40000000610ca1860e21e98c UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
@40000000610ca18c052a6534 INFO:root:watchdog_task: killing main loop because update_task is no longer alive
@40000000610ca18c05460f3c INFO:root:gobject.MainLoop was shut down


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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

Hi @imac , this is now fixed - in a beta version. Please do test that if you have a chance. And thank you for reporting the issue - sorry nobody noticed this; this took too long.


More info here: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/116831/rs485-usb-not-working-with-fw-273.html?childToView=116870#answer-116870

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