UPDATE 2025-06-25: Venus OS v3.62 has been released officially. Public announcement will come here later today: News overview - Victron Professional.
Good day!
A short step back from the v3.70 series, as we want to beta test a few improvements that are best released as soon as possible: here is v3.62~1 as a public beta.
Note, if you haven’t seen them yet, make sure to go through the v3.60 release slides: public - Venus OS v3.60 Release - Google Slides.
Change log below, and 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 SetupHelper, 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.
Feedback wanted on:
- Specifically the new UI loading issues; which happen on a very few systems out there - As these issues have been impossible to reproduce on our end & are thus hard to fix: anyone having that issue please update to v3.62~2 and let us know below if that fixed it. More detailed description.
Change log
v3.62~2
- Fix Mopeka tank sensors configuration changes not being saved properly, which means . Bug was introduced per v3.60. Thank you @Kennykustom , @srv1054 , @Pgrv , @Tardis , @infobia for reporting!
v3.60 → v3.62~1
- Fix FzSonic salt batteries, support for them was completely broken in Venus 3.60. Thank you @smueff1970 for finding the problem and solution.
- Remove support for Shelly grid meters on the CCGX. To save a bit of CPU and memory resources. Shelly as a grid meter has never been supported officially, and supporting Shelly for a grid metering in an ESS system is also not planned at at the moment. (there are other plans for Shelly, more on that later).
- Fix NMEA2000 / VE.Can compatibility issue with products being configured with a label using UTF-8 characters. Thank you @MotoringMariah for the report!
- New UI aka gui-v2: fix issues that caused it to be stuck in the loading screen (display of the Ekrano GX / GX Touch - this fix is not related to the Remote Console variant, also there are no known issues there). Thank you @hoeken for the report.
- Fix alarm buzzer not working on CCGX, broken in v3.60
- Improve startup performance : increase startup performance aka reduce boot time. Especially when going from one major version to another where, sometimes, lots of new user parameters or under water settings are added.
