Good morning!
There is a new beta version available for public testing, v3.60~4
Change log below, first please make yourself aware with the beta testing instructions:
Instructions 1 of 3: Venus OS beta testing & how to join/install
In case you don’t know what this message is about, please start with reading this link, which explains the Venus OS beta program. Venus OS is the software running on all our GX devices, such as the Cerbo GX.
Instructions 2 of 3: How to report an issue?
Before posting, please check if your issue already exists, in which case please contribute by replying to that issue or up-voting it.
Only once you are sure its a new possible issue, start a new topic.
Lastly, before posting, preferably first revert to the latest official release, to double check if the issue you’re seeing was present there as well. Regressions require a different treatment than other issues and bugs. And let us know if you did that, and what the difference is. A perfect report contains:
- How its expected to work
- How it doesn’t work as expected
- Details on the system
- What you’ve already tried to make sure its not a setting or other issue.
Please take note that that this works quite differently than it used to do on the old version of Community:
- For a new issue, open a new topic. Instead of adding a new reply at the bottom.
- To add to an already open issue, aka topic, reply to that. Or just upvote it if you have the same issue. This will help us a lot in determining its importance and manage our priorities.
Instructions 3 of 3: using Node-RED, Kevin’s GuiMods or other add-ons?
In case you are running Node-RED or SignalK, then please at least say so in your bug report.
Kevin’s GuiMods and other 3rd party add-ons: don’t report your gui issues here. Please do it elsewhere instead; and make sure to check out the related issue tracker first.
Changes made by us can cause a compatibility issue with the GuiMods; and these betas report pages are for official firmware only.
Change log
v3.60~8
- Fix Cerbo GX MK2 VE.Can 2 port failing after some time on a certain percentage of units, especially when running the New UI (gui-v2)
- Fix genset start/stop not working always, bug was introduced earlier during v3.60 development
- Fix Multi RS grid lost alarm; that alarm mechanism is now configured with the common Settings → System setup → Monitor for grid failure setting.
gui-v2
- Respect access level in various device list controls
- Fix generator start/stop conditions battery monitor selection menu
- Add control card for EV Charger
- Add support for Utilization reporting for Alternator (visible for those alternator controllers that transmit that data)
- Use Slider control for RS ESS min-soc setting
- Show active SOC limit on ESS subpage
- Move ESS menu to Inverter/Charger page
- Fix listing of PV inverters on the system
- Increase tank sensor value limits precision (when full and empty) to 3 decimal places
and the step size to 0.005 - Add connectivity icons for WiFi and GSM
NMEA2000-out
- N2K-out: add VREGs for AC in/out current to VE.Bus sender
v3.60~5, 6 and 7
New UI aka gui-v2:
- Fix the max gauge range setting for AC input 2 current gauge
- Fix bug wrt input current limit control for External transfer switch type systems; the controls page showed a second input current limit setting while there is only one.
ModbusTCP:
- Add 32-bit registers for a number of services that have outgrown their 16-bit values
- Battery DC power, register 256. Used to be limited to 32kW.
- Solar charger PV power, register 792. Used to be limited to 6553.5kW.
- Generator power, registers [3230-3235]. Used to be limited to 32kW per phase.
- AC load power, registers [3924-3929]. Used to be limited to 32kW per phase.
Venus OS Large - Node-RED
- Victron pallette, node-red-contrib-victron v1.6.3
- Update enum of inverter mode
- Bump in underlying libraries
- Update documentation
All changes between latest official version (v3.52) and v3.60~4
General:
- VE.Bus inverter/chargers: add kWh counter mechanism for external transfer switch based systems.
- Fix EVCS firmware update not working via VRM now and then showing error 1302
PV Inverter integration:
- Re-add the new setting and feature that was also tested in the v3.50 beta series for a while: PV Limiting support for PV-inverters other than Fronius and ABB/Fimer, who were always supported.
- Note that the setting is only available in gui-v1 at the moment, it will be added to gui-v2 shortly.
- Details:
- This setting shows only for PV Inverters other than Fronius and ABB/Fimer. For Fronius and ABB/Fimer nothing changes: PV limiting remains always enabled as in the past.
- The setting shows up for any PV-inverter that advertises the limiting ability through the SunSpec protocol.
- The setting also shows up for some SolarEdge inverters. SolarEdge use their own proprietary limiting protocol.
- This feature will interfere with proper operation in a SolarEdge/SMA system with an energy meter. Leave it disabled in such systems.
- This setting defaults to Off. The objective is to avoid silently/unexpectedly enable the limiter on a running system when Venus OS is updated.
- Note that enabling this setting only makes the GX “limiting aware” for the said PV Inverter. Thereafter, to actually enable limiting, either Disable the feed-in of excess AC-coupled PV in Settings → ESS, or use Dynamic ESS.
- For Fronius and ABB/Fimer, nothing changes. PV-limiting support remains enabled and there is no setting for it.
- Compared to the version last in v3.50 (v3.50-42):
- Fix bug that caused support for limiting to not be indicated (introduced in venus 3.50~40)
- Fix bug that required a reboot after disabling the limiter
New UI aka gui-v2:
- Show multi-phase solar inverter output in watts not amps
- Fix bug in Bluetooth sensor configuration menu that could cause sensors to no longer show in a webbrowser until restarting the browser.
- Update translations.
Multi RS:
- Fix grid-lost alarm showing even though disabling in Settings → System
- Fix various
Modbus-TCP:
- Add register for Multi RS ESS Active SocLimit
- This is the actual minimum SOC the system is using, it can be different from the Minimum SOC setting if BatteryLife is active
- register 4926, uint16
- Add registers for AC input current limits for RS-systems
- Register 4940: AC input current limit for AC-in-1
- Register 4941: AC input current limit for AC-in-2 (for future models)
- Register 4942: AC input current limit at the meter
Managed batteries:
- Reword high battery voltage alarm into High cell voltage alarm since that better indicates the issue. In 99.999% of situations this indicates an imbalance issue in a battery/bms combination that apparently doesn’t automatically handle this in way while preventing high cell voltage alarms/situations, consult your battery documentation on how to restore cell balance.
Venus OS Large - Node-RED:
- update victron node pallette to v1.6.2
- update vrm node
- update Node-RED from v3.1.10 to v3.1.13
Venus OS Large - Signal K Server:
- update signal k server from v2.11.0 to v2.12.0. Change log.
- update venus-signalk-plugin from v1.41.0 to v1.42.0. Change log.
