Good evening & day all!
After a bit of a pause following the v2.60 release, its time to start field testing a new version. The now included changes are mostly fixes.
This post is intended for all people participating in the Venus OS Beta test program.
Changes (compared to v2.60)
- MPPT RS: Show data of both MPPT RS trackers in the GUI. Note that this is for now only when connected via VE.Direct, VE.Can is still in the works. Same for sending this data to VRM: also that is still in progress.
- Inverter RS:
- Add option to use the battery monitor in the Inverter RS.
- Fix remotely firmware updating an Inverter RS when connected via VE.Direct (by increasing the baudrate and thereby avoiding a timeout).
- Add reading out its battery temperature sensor.
- Various other minor and hard to explain fixes.
- Conclusion: everything should work well now, when connected through its VE.Direct communication port. If you see any issue still, please report. With regards to the VE.Can connection, that is still in progress I'm afraid.
- Add VE.Bus high DC voltage & high DC current alarms (to the gui for readout, to the gui for notifications, as well as sending them to VRM).
- Add status/control page for EV charging station (this is a future product, nothing to be expected soon - pls don't ask for details or delivery dates: its all too early, and asking us questions about it will only delay the final product since then we're answering things rather than working on it! :-) ).
- Add Inverter RS temperature sender readout to the GUI.
- Fix some issues with regards to setting the TCP/IP address manually.
- Fix IP address type (DHCP vs Manual) showing "Unknown" when DHCP failed. Even when requesting an IP address had failed, it should still show thats its configured for DHCP, which it now does.
- Fix Dutch translation (change 'gewoon' into 'aangepast')
- Fix bug in the Grid alarm: it worked well when the AC input was configured to be "Grid", but not when configured to be "Shore power". Now it does.
- GX GSM: Fix issues seen on Vodafone UK and EE UK (multiple PDP contexts)
- Fix issue where limiting feed-in of excess AC-coupled PV did not work when the PV Inverter indicated an error condition.
- Improve EM24 ethernet read-out stability and add support for EV Charger
- VE.Bus: add more overload diagnostics logging
- VE.Bus: fix very rare cause of VE.Bus error 14 & Error 17 when Cerbo GX is powered from unreliable power supply.
- Modbus TCP: add registers for generator start/stop functionality
- State: Stopped, Running or Error
- FisherPanda remote error: No Error, remote disabled, remote error
- No AC at inverter input alarm
Next steps for v2.62
I still have a few fixes on the list to include, so a v2.62~3 is expected shortly. Then we'll field test this for a while.
Have a good night and best regards,
Matthijs
ps. in case you wonder what happened to v2.61: thats a version used to fix something we needed in the manufacturing lines of GX products; and therefore not made public through the online updating system for GX Devices.
