Good day all,
As of just now, a new Venus OS version is available to be field tested. Its v2.73~1. In case you're wondering: yes, until today we were field testing v2.80, and this is going back a bit from that.
v2.73~1 builds on our current official version, v2.72. And contains a few improvements that we want to make available now, rather than wait until v2.80 is complete finished.
What to test?
This version fixes the issues with installing v2.80 on certain Venus GXes. For those affected by that, please test this fix: first update to v2.73~1. And thereafter try installing v2.80 again. For now, you'll have to do that last step manually, ie using a USB stick or SD-card. The files are available here. Please confirm if it now does work by adding a message below if this is now fixed for you - thank you! For those looking for v2.80~14 files for other GX devices, I have to ask for your patience. I don't have them here at the moment.
Check that the GX Touch keeps working properly, and see rest of changes.
How to post an issue?
Preferably all issues are organised as answers to this question. One answer per issue. So first check the existing threads. If you have the same as someone else already reported, welcome to 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 here on community.
Lastly, if possible please revert to v2.72, 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 one of the first things that needs doing in triaging a report is distinguishing between the two.
The plan with v2.73
This is planned for official release next week.
Changes compared to v2.72:
- Fix issue causing Cerbo GX-es with a serialnumber below HQ2026 to be incompatible with newer GX Touches. In such case, the GX Touch display would flash at powerup and then remain off. Not anymore. Thank you Matthias for reporting & helping to fix this.
- Fix issue making it impossible to install v2.80 on certain production batches of the Venus GX.
- VRM: transmit power per tracker, right now needed for the VRM Dashboard, rather than current.
- Fix I/O settings not visible on a CCGX even though GX Tank 140 is installed.
- Fix GX device not being visible on other phones while already connected to one. Now it is visible in the 2nd phone, but then with an explanation that to connect, the other phone needs to actually disconnect first. This is now on par with how other Victron products work with Bluetooth.
RaspberryPi and other developer related:
- Venus OS image: Fix backlight issue
- Packages: drop support for Jessie. Building for Jessie broke on our system, and also Jessie is EOL.
And lastly, note that v2.73 does not include the recent changes in v2.80, such as the read-only rootfs as well as python 3.
Thank you and all the best, Matthijs
