Officially released per today, Venus OS Large v3.34 updates its Signal K server version to the latest available release.

Note that the latest normal Venus OS version remains at v3.33, announced here.

Changes:

Signal K Server v2.7.1 -> v2.8.3:

• Improve App store user friendliness
• Various security updates
• Various other bugfixes and improvements
• Allow users without a password
• signalk-venus-plugin update from v1.34.1 -> v1.37.0

For details, see the full Signal K Server change log.

What are Venus OS Large and Signal K Server?

Venus OS Large is an extended version of the common software, adding Node-RED and Signal K server.

Signal K server is an open source and community driven software project, which features make a GX device to become a data hub for all marine electronics on a yacht. For example to share navigation and AIS data from the NMEA2000 wired CAN-bus network onto WiFi, for use in many of the popular navigation apps for phones and tables.

For further details, see the Venus OS Large manual.

Full change log

For the full change log, see the Venus OS entry in the firmware section on Victron Professional.

How to install this update?

For systems connected to the internet, there are two different methods:

• On the VRM Portal, go to Device List and there use the Update firmware button at the bottom.
• On the GX Device, or Remote Console go to Settings -> Firmware.

And for systems not connected to the internet:

• Use a SD-card or USB stick. The so called "off line update method".

More details in the GX Device manuals. Quick links to the relevant pages: Ekrano GX, Cerbo GX, Color Control GX and for the Venus GX.