Good evening!
Per just now, v3.65~3 is available for public beta testing. Which means a short break in the v3.70 series.
Venus OS v3.65 contains various stability improvements, detailed change log below.
Note that during this time, v3.70 beta versions are not available for download.
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, dbus-serialbattery or other add-ons?
Node-RED or Signal K
In case you are running Node-RED or SignalK, then please at least say so in your bug report.
SetupHelper, GuiMods, dbus-serialbattery
Modifications such as the popular GuiMods, SetupHelper, dbus-serialbattery and other 3rd party add-ons: do not report your issues here. Please do it elsewhere instead; and make sure to check out the related issue tracker first.
These topics and beta testing and bug reports are only for clean systems.
Change log
v3.64 → v3.65~3
General
- RV-C-out: various improvements & features (apologies for still not detailing those! will do asap)
- Fix issue that (sometimes) caused login information to get lost, thus requiring to login again, when accessing Remote Console on LAN, or for example in the GX Android Wifi Display App; when having the “Local network security profile” setting set to Secure or Weak.
- Fix MQTT certificate generation; thank you @P_e_t_e_r for the report & details that helped getting this fixed.
Venus OS Large / Node-RED
- Various stability improvements and fixes:
- Fix grid meter frequency not being updated for EM540 grid meters as well as a few other grid meters.
- Fix “Not connected to D-Bus” error happing on certain nodes after doing a (re-)deploy from the Node-RED editor. The connection would restore after 20 to 60 seconds. Now the error doesn’t happen at all anymore.
A few more stability related improvements. - Prevent crash of Node-RED when sending null or undefined for “text” when setting the status of a node.
- Improve first time use of Node-RED on Venus OS: it is now no longer necessary to deploy once to be able to start configuring nodes. This fix was done by installing a flows.json that includes the required Config node; if there is no flows.json yet.