Don’t Update! Victron VenusOS 3.30

Don’t update until you watched this! Victron did Release a new version of their VenusOS 3.30. We will upgrade together to the latest version on my Raspberry Pi 4B and Raspberry Pi 3B+.
Change Log:
v3.30 - March 19th 2024
Changes:
Highlights
• Add current limiting, aka peak shaving, for ESS systems with an energy meter. Requires ESS Assistant version 018C to be installed. Note that when that Assistant is not up to date, the new current limit settings are not visible in the UI).
• Marine MFD App: reduce load time, fix Fahrenheit support, fix tank gauges flickering bug, fix sensors not visible in certain circumstances, improve tank gauges responsiveness and alignment and icon shrinking, improved battery gauges responsiveness.
General
• Ruuvi wireless temperature sensors: add low battery warning. This is for the small coin battery inside the Ruuvi tag. When temperature is below 20 °C, the threshold is 2V. When temperature between -20 and 0 °C, the threshold is 2.3V, and otherwise its 2.5V.
• MPPT RS: Fix spurious low and high battery voltage alarms. This bug was introduced per Venus OS v3.20, and affected MPPT RSes connected over VE.Can.
• Lynx Smart BMS: Fix spurious low and high voltage alarms active on VRM, typically happened after restarting the GX.
• Cerbo GX: add option to disable the LEDs, see Settings - General - Enable status LEDs.
• Cerbo GX: fix missing restart of the UI after hotplugging a GX Touch. This was broken in v3.20 or earlier.
Generator start/stop controller integration
• DSE: Add support for the DSE 8620-MKII and the DSE 6120.
• ComAp: Fix coolant temperature and oil pressure register decimals
Modbus-TCP Registers
• Add register 105 for redetecting the VE.Bus system
• Add registers 142, 143 and 144 for enabling/disabling UPS function on Multis/Quattros
• Add Orion XS registers
Venus OS Large - Node-RED
• Node-RED updated from v3.1.3 to v3.1.5 - github.com/node-red/node-red/...
• Victron nodes: output enumerated value as msg.textvalue: For input nodes that use an enumerated value as data, also output the textual value as msg.textvalue. For these nodes also show this textual value in the status text.
• Victron nodes: add read-out + control of the Cerbo GX status LEDs via the settings nodes.
Venus OS Large - Signal K Server
• Fix N2K VE.Can port not being configured out of the box for the Ekrano GX.
Touchscreen Calibration Command:
ts_calibrate
Turn On GUI:
mv /etc/venus/headless /etc/venus/headless.off
Reboot
OR
Turn off GUI:
mv /etc/venus/headless.off /etc/venus/headless
Reboot
Victron VRM Portal: vrm.victronenergy.com/
Victron Professional: professional.victronenergy.com/
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Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
01:14 - Change Log
03:44 - Update Raspberry Pi 4
11:01 - Troubleshooting
14:14 - Summary
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[@user-ross-99]

Thanks for the info, Tobi. I updated my live system on my boat (RPi4) just as this video came out and it all went fine, fortunately, so didn't expect any problems when I updated what I thought was a nearly identical version I have on an SD card at home. (It's another RPi4 I use for various things.) I was wrong! Not a huge problem as I just uninstalled RPiGpioSetup and GuiMods and reinstalled them. I'll be more wary in the future as I guess I was just lucky this time with the live system. (Reminder to self: Backup!)

[@jamesk97]

I had no issues updating to 3.30 large and all my 97 nodes in nodered stayed and is all working great.

[@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi]

Thanks for your feedback! I'll give it another try as well after reimaging today

[@rklauco]

Happy birthday :)

[@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi]

Thank you ;-)

[@rklauco]

I wonder how many people will find this video AFTER they did the update :( Thanks for the effort!

[@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi]

Good question... I was a little late as well ... Follow up video is out now!

[@BakedInMyCar]

Guilty! Here I was thinking that updating was the right thing to do 😅

[@Califahrer67]

With my installations on a CerboGX and a Pi3 I had to reinstall SetupHelper as it did not came up automatically. Beside this I did not have any issues, but I do not have an additional display. In 3.14 and 3.20 the dbus-i2c module (on Pi3) was not working and my DC-load-monitoring failed. You do not have a backup firmware for the large image as the last software installed before was a normal version - for that you will see the stored firmware. My devices both show as last version 3.21 with a large image (seems I missed the 3.22). Greetings from Germany

[@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi]

Thanks for watching! Grüße zurück!

[@jyclin]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@gerflacl246]

I updated to 3.30 and now the Communication via MQTT/SSH/Remote Console crashes like every 2 hours . Most of the time the Cerbo catches up again ,but seldomly i have to do a manual reboot to get it working. Really annoying!

[@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi]

Sorry to hear! I guess they might come out with some big fishing soon

[@YvesWinkel]

Very strange. Try to use the "real" stuff. Use a Cerbo. No problems at all here with the update.

[@tobisreallifeskillswithtobi]

Thanks for watching. Working on an update now ;-) RPi is the alternativ for the people who want to work on it themselves. The "real stuff" is great, too no question asked ;-)