Venus OS v3.73~1 available for public testing

Beta testing Venus OS beta testing
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Good day!

A fresh new thread for v3.73 beta feedback. Temporarily suspending v3.80 betas.

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, 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.

Modifications such as the popular GuiMods, SetupHelper, dbus-serialbattery and other 3rd party add-ons: do not report new topics in Venus beta. 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.
See Settings → General → Modification checks in the New UI.

Popular bug report / discussion threads:

Change log

v3.73

  • has been released on the 16th of May

v3.73~1

  • New UI:

    • Fix a bug in status code display of the switches.
    • Fix floating point step size for Numeric Input switches.
    • Fix the audible alarm setting not working when the Classic UI has never been used.

  • Bluetooth:

    • Fix the Firmware Version for Gobius.
    • Add support for Pro-200B Mopeka sensor.
    • Add support for Garnet SeeLevel sensors.

  • VE.Can:

    • Add support for the VM-3P5A energy meter.
    • Add incoming power snapshots support for VM-3P5A.
    • Add support for the power message to the grid forward as sent by VM-3P5A.

  • Modbus client:

    • Add support for the new energy meter VM-3P5A.

  • E-drive:

    • Fix unwanted notifications on Oceanvolt systems during shutdown.
    • Add more Sevcon fault codes.
    • Support older versions of the Curtis E/SE controllers.

  • DESS:

    • Fix a bug causing the Multi RS throttling solar when charging from the grid.

  • Energy Meters:

    • Add support for the Carlo Gavazzi EM530-RG and EM530-MV meters. These are new additions to the EM500 family. The -RG model uses Rogowski coils, the -MV model uses 333mV current sensors.

  • Modbus TCP server:

    • Add registers for checking the individual relay test results of Multis/Quattros
      • Registers 110 t/m 121 for the first 12 units.
    • Add registers for VE.Bus Nominal inverter power.
      • Registers 130 thru 136, total value plus per phase values. UInt32.
    • Fix several small issues with overlapping registers
      • Register 871 potentially overlapped 870.
      • Add missing Lynx BMS alarms (BMS Cable, Contactor, High Current, registers 327 to 329).
    • Fix overlap on DESS strategy register (register 5430).

  • Node-RED:

    • Fix that users who previously installed victron-vrm-api manually would silently keep running that outdated (0.2.x) version even after a firmware update. Venus OS now automatically removes the stale local copy on startup, ensuring the firmware-bundled version is always used.
    • A new output is now available on the Three-state switch showing whether the GX device is controlling the switch automatically.
    • Remove the deprecated Switch type from the Virtual Device node. New setups should use the Virtual Switch node instead.
    • Add RS tracker enabled/disabled paths.
nickdb (Nick) 4

For software components in the large image, nodered, signalk etc, please post in their relevant sections - nodered and modifications.
There is a beta tag for both, please add that to the post.
There is no need to add cross links to those posts here, that is what the tag is for.
The core venus OS team is not responsible for those components and can’t help here, there are dedicated teams who will from time to time look for those tags.

Thanks for understanding.

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