April 12th, 2023
Venus OS v2.94 - CAN-Bus battery and NMEA2000 fluid instances

Today a new version of Venus OS was released, v2.94. It has two fixes:

  1. DVCC: Fix bug where data from a CAN-bus connected battery could get stuck/freeze until GX devices was rebooted. We've seen this happen in a handful of support cases; and it related to certain timing in the canbus me…
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March 3rd, 2023
Generator, shore and grid energy history on the VRM dashboard

The system will read the AC input type that is selected on the GX device, and/or in VictronConnect (as for the Multi RS), and then tell you where that AC input energy went;

  1. direct to loads
  2. charging the battery
  3. total kWh

This VRM feature reveals data that previously only available …

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February 23rd, 2023
Energy meter EM24 RS485 replaced by the EM540

The Carlo Gavazzi 3-phase EM24 RS485 is now replaced by the EM540 RS485.

EM540 Victron Energy Part N° is REL200100100

The new EM540 meter will be in stock as the EM24 was.

For the installers there is no difference as the communication to our GX devices is integrated since Venus OS …

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February 20th, 2023
New: protection covers for GX Touch

New: plastic covers for the GX Touch 50 and 70 display accessories.

These covers protect the GX Touch display from water, dust as well as UV light.

Part numbers:

  • BPP900462050 GX Touch 50 Protection Cover
  • BPP900462070 GX Touch 70 Protection Cover

More information in the Cerbo, Cerbo-S …

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February 15th, 2023
VictronConnect v5.82 - various fixes
Today we released VictronConnect v5.82 to all app stores. It brings various fixes and mostly updates the firmware included in the app.
 
These are the included changes:
 
 
MultiPlus, Quattro, Easysolar and other VE.Bus products:
  • Update included firmware from v501 to v502. …
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February 15th, 2023
VE.Bus firmware v502 - small varia

Yesterday we released VE.Bus firmware v502. A small update with two changes:

 

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February 13th, 2023
Venus OS v2.93 - Remote Console and more fixes

This new version of Venus OS further builds onto release v2.90. And contains various fixes:

  • 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.
  • Add the new Scheduled m…
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February 10th, 2023
MPPT sizing calculator - new features

Recently a couple of new interesting features have been added to the MPPT sizing calculator.

When calculating (bottom right in the picture) you can now:

  • Filter the results on MPPT features like 'Bluetooth', 'VE.Can', integrated 'inverter' or 'AC charger'.
  • Connection type 'terminals' or 'M…
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January 30th, 2023
EV Charging station fw v1.24 - VictronConnect integration and Scheduled Charging

Hi all,

Long awaited and finally finished; EV Charging Station firmware v1.24 has been officially released.

New features like the scheduler and Bluetooth support (thus VictronConnect integration) have been implemented, along with some other improvements and bug fixes.

See the chan…

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January 18th, 2023
VictronConnect v5.81 - Instant read-out for Smart Orion and more

Change log:

  • Add "Keep SOC on reset" feature to SmartShunt & BMV-712: until now, the state of charger percentage in our BMVs and SmartShunts would be lost when losing power. Now that is finally solved, with the new setting a unit will -finally!- remember its last SOC. For newly manufactured …
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January 17th, 2023
VE.Bus firmware v501 - fix issue with backup generators in an ESS system

Good day,

Today we released a new firmware version for our inverter/chargers such as the MultiPlus-II and Quattro series, VE.Bus firmware v501.

It fixes a long standing issue where our Quattros, when configured with a grid-code for ESS, would - sometimes - not accept an AC generator on its input.…

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December 14th, 2022
RS firmware v1.11 - generator support and more

Today we released firmware version v1.11 for all RS products, being the Multi RS, Inverter RS as well as both MPPT RS models.

The most important changes all concern the Multi RS, and are:

  • Add support for using a generator as AC source: the inverter has an increased tolerance for irreg…
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