EVCS options missing in nodered since 3.70

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Updated to 3.70 on friday and thought i would just check everything is ok with nodered.

Our EVCS is missing 90% of the options it had before.

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There were some regressions in 3.70 that are addressed in the beta and soon to be 3.71.

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Just reporting, that the problem mentioned by OP is still present in VenusOS 3.72.

It looks like the state of the configuration/EVCS nodes depend heavily on the state of the charger itself. My observation from the past 24 hours:

  • yesterday, all the EVCS Node-Red nodes reported that the device is disconnected, BUT, it was normally connected and displayed on the Cerbo (in VRM, I could access EVCS web interface, the “connection Check” in the EVCS settings was successful, etc.)
    • I restarted the Node-Red service (from SSH console), and it seems that helped. I have seen what was expected, the device was identified by its name (i.e., EVCS-HQ22…)
  • today, EVCS is charging, and when I open any Node-Red EVCS node, the device is identified by “com.victronenergy.evcharger/40” (see screenshot below), and some (sub-)options are missing:
    • 1 hour ago, I saw only “Start/Stop charging (manual mode)”
    • then I changed the “max charge current” settings via EVCS web interface, and now, I can see also “Set charge current (manual mode) (A)” and “Maximum charge current (A)” (see screenshot below)
  • also, in the “EV Charger node”, there seem to be only ‘Measurements’ that are somehow currently available on the device. I am charging EV via 2-phase charger, and I can see only L1 power and L2 power in the drop-down (not L3 power as I should also). See the Screenshot 2 below.

Soo, something is still “fishy” in Venus 3.72 (NodeRed v4.1.1, @victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron: 1.6.63 (and it can NOT be updated – the Update button is not wisible, see Screenshot 3 & 4)

I hope this report can help finding the “magic” bug and to resolve it soon.

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This happens when you originally installed some packages manually.
Most, if not all, of this is fixed in the current beta.

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I am not aware of installing any node-red packages “manually” :thinking: I have installed a few packages via “Manage palette”, as I believed this is expected way howto get additional plugins in. Also, I can remember that, for example, the @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard offered the “Update” button on the palette when there as an update in the repository.

So, what advice would you give to fix it?

  • is there any procedure I can do?
  • or shall I wait until Venus OS 3.8 is out, and that would fix the situation automatically?

Thanks a lot for any advice.

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The beta should automatically fix the issues. No idea when it is GA.

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When will this be fixed? 3.73 and the evcs is still constantly offline in node red.