UPDATE 2023-02-24: v3.00~20 is now available. Fixes the issue that was introduced in ~19.
UPDATE 2023-02-24: v3.00~19 has been made available for testing. Note that it has an issue related to MQTT and also the HTML5-App and possibly VRM real time controls. A new version, v3.00~20 is expected later today.
UPDATE 2023-02-20: v3.00~18 has been made available for testing. Fixes Node-RED related issue, see below.
Hello!
After releasing v2.93 earlier this week, its time to resume v3.00 beta testing. The new available version is v3.00~17.
What is new in v3.00?
- Peak shaving for ESS
- Disable the touch feature on a GX Touch: great for rental and other systems where the whish is to display system status while not allowing any other user interaction.
- Improved ESS control speed
- RV-C canbus protocol for (mostly USA-built) motorhomes: lots of improvements
The first two bullets are new per v3.00~17.
Introduction to Venus OS beta testing
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.
How to post an issue?
By posting an answer below. Do please keep all findings organised: one answer issue per issue. So first check the existing threads if your issue has already been seen. And if it does, add a comment saying "me too". And preferably some more details. And in case its not listed yet, add a new Answer.
Note that Answers and Comments are two different things on this portal.
Lastly, before posting issues, preferably first revert to the latest official release (v2.93), 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 include information about the results/differences in behaviour in your report.
Changes v3.00~19 -> v3.00~20
- Fix the issue that was introduced in ~19.
Changes v3.00~18 -> v3.00~19
- Internal changes only
- Has known issue related to MQTT and also the HTML5-App and possibly VRM real time controls. A new version, v3.00~20 is expected later today.
Changes v3.00~17 -> v3.00~18
- Node-RED: fix the Node-RED Victron control nodes. The previous version (v3.00~17) broke all control nodes.
Changes v3.00~15 -> v3.00~17
General
- ESS: Add peak shaving option (by observing the AC input current limit using PowerAssist)
- Peak shaving already worked in Keep batteries charged mode; no changes there, other than making it more obvious by adding in the Peak shaving menu entry.
- Peak shaving did not work will in the Optimised modes. It did work as long as battery SOC was above the configured ESS Minimum SOC level, but once discharged there the system would not assist the loads. This is now solved: use the new peak shaving option in the ESS menu, to let the system keep PowerAssisting when needed. And as soon as the peak is over, it will recharge the battery using power from the grid, while prioritising solar. Note that there is a 5% hysteresis on that: lets say Minimum SOC is set to 80%, it will then start recharging back to that 80% once (by peak shaving) the battery dropped to 75%.
- The default setting, when using the Optimised mode, is off. To not change behaviour of running systems.
- Warning: this works for the critical loads only. Not by energy meter.
- For further details, see screenshots below.
- GX Touch: add option to disable the touch input. See settings -> I/O -> Digital inputs for the new feature. This is intended for systems where the GX Touch is wanted to show the users what the system is doing; but nothing else. The status of the touch (enabled/disabled) is toggled by pulling the gpio down to ground. More information about locking a system down is here; that text was recently updated, amongst other things a "Hardening a GX device" chapter was added.
- EV Charging Station: show progress indication during a firmware update.
- GUI, in the Multi & Quattro advanced menu, reword Reset to Restart. Less ambiguous in relation to a factory reset.
- VRMLogger: add various new fields to be sent to VRM to improve the dashboard and dashboard controls.
- Support the Fronius Tauro via SolarAPI: This is a rare edge case. Customers should use Sunspec instead of SolarAPI whenever possible, as per documentation. This change allows using SolarAPI in cases where Sunspec cannot be used. For example where modbus-RTU is in use on the DataManager and modbus-TCP cannot be used.
- Energy meters:
- Fix issue with EM24 reported values being more erratic since earlier v3.00 releases. Now the behaviour is back to how it was pre v3.00
- Fix issue with EM540 phase sequence check for three phase systems. It reported the phase sequence as being incorrect while it wasn't.
Few changes that were also made available in v2.93:
- Fix a problem where Remote Console wouldn't work, and required a factory reset to be repaired. Any systems now having the issues will be fixed automatically once updated to v2.93 or v3.00~16.
- Fix timezone bug related to ESS Scheduled Charging: after changing the time zone, a reboot was required to make that use the new time zone. Bug was introduced in v2.80. Thank you Patrick M. for your help on this!
- Add the new Scheduled mode and more for the EV Charging Station. Fixes "unknown" showing when the EV Charging Station is configured for that mode. For more information on that, read here.
Developer related
- RaspberryPis: fix bluetooth connection to VictronConnect using the rpi-built-in bluetooth radio. This was broken during v3.00 development.
- Node-RED, update node-red-contrib-victron from v1.4.26 to v1.4.27:
- Added option to input nodes to only broadcast changed values (see issue #147)
- Added missing input-vebus paths: /Bms/PreAlarm and /VebusChargeState
- Update documentation
- Update the uPnP data (see this commit)
- Update PHP from v7.4.28 to v7.4.33; next step is no longer using PHP at all.
Internals
- Update MK3 firmware from v215 to v216. If already on v215, this update will happen automatically. If running an earlier version, the update will need to be triggered manually, as explained below.
- Prepare VE.Bus firmware updater for some internal changes.
Changes v3.00~14 -> v3.00~15
General
- add logging of generator runtime to VRM Portal (actual visualisation might still need work)
- ESS: add support for all EM300 meters
- ESS: add option to scheduled charging to allow discharging the battery (if SOC is below the configured minimum) while in the window; and more.
- EV Charger: various features and fixes
- Add support for Pylontech batteires having 16 cells in series (rather than usual 15 cells). Thank you Brian Finley!
- Force good settings for Hubble batteries (DVCC on, STS off, SVS recommended off)
Protocols
- Lots of improvements concerning RV-C; to be detailed
- Modbus-TCP: fix issue related to inverter/charger state vs “ext control”.
Changes v3.00~8 -> v3.00~14
General
- Fix Zigbee (DRF2685C) detection. (also available in Venus OS v2.93)
- VE.Bus BMS v2: Improvements to remote firmware update feature
- VE.Bus BMS v2: Add sending the pre-alarm status to VRM.
- Bluetooth improvements (I'll elaborate on this later)
- Fix bugs in the GUI that could cause it to show glitches and/or get stuck.
- Add Thai language
Modbus-TCP
- Fix register 31, the /State path for the VE.Bus inverter/chargers. Since v2.89 it returned value 252, Ext Control, for systems where the Inverter/charger is externally controlled. Instead of 3 (Bulk), 4 (Absorption) and so forth. Breaking customer integrations. (also available in Venus OS v2.93)
Venus OS Large
- Update signalk-server from 1.44 to 1.46.2
Changes v3.00~4 -> v3.00~8
General
- Multi/Quattro: Fix issue causing a repetitive low battery alarm in case the battery is disconnected
- ESS: Fix bug introduced in v3.00~2 related to external control mode.
- Add progress indicator (0 to 100%) to Venus OS firmware download.
- Fix tank temperature unit (Fahrenheit)
- Add new VE.Bus product ids (2681, 2723, 2766, 2776)
- Add diagnostic fields for Multis/Quattros (uptime counter per unit, terminal voltage, Vsense voltage for L1 master and DC ripple)
Modbus-TCP
- com.victronenergy.battery: Add /Dc/0/Power and /Mode, add missing fields to /State enum
- com.victronenergy.digitalinput: Add "Generator" to /Type enum
- com.victronenergy.multi (applies to RS products): fix in enum /State
Venus OS Large
- Major change in node identification. Now using /DeviceInstance to find the correct node on the dbus instead of using the full service path. Full changelog and description here: https://github.com/victronenergy/node-red-contrib-victron/releases/tag/v1.4.25
Changes v2.92 -> v3.00~4
- For systems having multiple BMSes connected, allow selecting which one should be used for DVCC. It also allows the use of a BMV for SOC tracking -- by selecting BMV as battery monitor -- while still using the BMS for DVCC. A bit of a niche issue for special systems, more technical background here: https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/issues/901 (but please don't start posting on our github - thanks).
- Detect Hubble batteries, untested as of yet.
- Add Polish translations, thank you Jakub T for helping with that!
- ESS: increase control speed of systems using todays supported meters (ET112, ET330, EM24, and also the ABB ones) a little. But, for faster meters, such as the EM540 which is not available yet, increase it very significantly. Requires updating the built-in MK3-chip, see next bullet.
- Include a newer version of onboard MK3-chip firmware, v215. Updating that has a 1 to 10% chance of a short system outage (Multi/Quattro shuts down in VE.Bus Error 14, restarts after 30 seconds). And therefore the update needs to be initiated manually from within the menu. Note that this is a reversible action, no need to worry about being unable to roll back. After updating, and then rolling Venus OS back to v2.92 or some other earlier version, the MK3 will automatically (and silently) be downgraded to the for that version of Venus OS required MK3-firmware version.
- Improve text for tank sensor name in pump configuration.
- ESS: Fix bug where PV is not used for loads when scheduled charging to 100% during daytime
- Fix bug where a PV-inverter on AC-in-2 would not be shown in the ESS overview. The workaround was to configure the PV inverter as being on AC-in-1. Not needed anymore.
Venus OS Large
- Fix issue sometimes causing certain values to update slower than necessary.
- Add client_max_body_size to nginx config for larger flows.
- Update nodejs to v14.17.6, which is the latest v14.17.* LTS. Change log here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V14.md#14.17.6
Under water / developer
- Various small under the hood changes, mostly resulting in small reductions of CPU load
- Replace Hiawatha webserver with nginx; which is better kept up to date (security)
- Include various OE Dunfell fixes
- DVCC: simplify transmission of the charge voltage setpoint by sending it always, rather than only if devices that work with it are detected. This won't make a difference to any commonly known system type.
MK3 firmware update related screenshots
On systems not updated yet, you'll see this (after going to the Device list, and then into the MultiPlus, Quattro or EasySolar listing):
And for anyone wanting to make sure its updated, in that same menu, scrolling all the way down to the Device submenu, and going in there, and scrolling down again, you'll find this listing:
Wherein the 212 digits are the version number, and thats the old one. And here is what you see after the update:
Note that this is necessary only for this one update. Hereafter, updates will be silent again, like they used to be; since there is no longer a risk of a short system outage.
Prior threads:
