D-Bus Custom Name dynamic change

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Hi,
I am using a Cerbo GX running firmware v3.80-13 (or your version) with the new GUI-v2 enabled. I’ve encountered a limitation regarding the CustomName of Digital Inputs.
My Setup is:
Digital Input 1 is set to “User defined”.
I am updating com.victronenergy.settings /Settings/DigitalInput/1/CustomName via Node-RED or D-Bus.
The Issue:
Even though the D-Bus value updates instantly (confirmed via dbus-send), the GUI-v2 interface does not reflect the change. The UI only shows the new name after a full hardware reboot of the Cerbo GX.
Steps taken that DID NOT work:
Restarting the gui service: svc -t /service/start-gui.
Killing the UI process: killall -9 venus-gui-v2 or killall -9 qmlscene.
Restarting localsettings service.

It appears that GUI-v2 caches the input labels at boot and doesn’t update them dynamically. In the old GUI, these labels were dynamic.
Is there a specific D-Bus signal or a different path (like an Alias) that we should use to trigger a label refresh in GUI-v2 without a reboot? Dynamic labeling is essential for my setup to distinguish between different alarm states on the same input.

Thank you!

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Hi. The main sections are for production code.
You are running a beta.
It’s best to confirm if the issue is unique to a beta by rolling back to a GA version. If it is beta specific, we have categories dedicated to that.

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Hello, I need to test on GA as well, I’ll get back…

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Hi, I tested on v3.70 and it has the same behavior, you have to restart GX to refresh CUSTOM NAME and that only once after restart, as if it only reads this property at start. I will test on v3.72 and get back.

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The same result on v3.72

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Hi ,

I’m looking for some clarification on dynamic custom name changes. Are they supposed to propagate in real-time? I want to understand if the current behavior is a bug, an incomplete feature, or if I’m missing something about how it works.

Thanks for any technical insights!