VRM Portal Changelog

• Installations Overview: when “Detailed mode” is enabled, values between -0.5 and 0 are now shown as 0, not as -0.
• Preferences: Fixed an issue where e-mail address could not be changed.
• Teams: Add invitation link to the team.

• General: Fixed an issue where the 2FA banner linked to an incorrect URL for the Security settings.

• Replace GX: Fix allowing to select an installation already added to VRM.
• Dashboard: Fix incorrect forecast values.

• Homepage: Introducing a new homepage for VRM for users with more than 10 installations.
• Replace GX: Reboot GX devices and clear old data after replacing GX device.
• Settings: 'Replace GX Device' and 'Reset Tokens' buttons now follow the same style as other action buttons.
• Alarm Rules: Alarms are now sorted by the type of device to more easily find alarm rules.
• Alarm Rules: You can now set only a high or only a low alarm without needing to fill all four alarm fields.
• Advanced: Fix graphs using UTC instead of local time.
• Advanced: 'Widget settings' are now displayed in a modal.
• Report Templates: When creating a new template, added error if name is shorter than 2 characters.

• Dynamic ESS: Fix “Leave” button not working when prompted on unsaved changes in the Dynamic ESS settings

• Fleet Monitor: Add icons to each widget, so they are easier to identify.
• Preferences: Sort languages alphabetically.
• API: Fix `users/{id}/diagnostics` endpoint.
• Advanced: Fall back to regular datapoints when user selects `show min/max values` when that data is not available.
• User groups: Ensure user group page doesn't allow site permission changes if user doesn't have the right privileges.
• Login: Added user feedback after opening a wrong invite.

• Device list: Fix showing the VRM Portal Model row in the table even if no value is reported.

• Command K: Show enhanced search in all the pages that are not part of an installation.
• Economic Results: Fix alignment of buttons in economic report results.
• Advanced Widgets: Make the solar irradiance widget take the date picker values into account.
• Installation overview: Show favorite installations in the installation overview on mobile.
• Settings: Show the Replace GX device section faster and consistently.
• Controls: Use 1% increments for the Mininum SOC.
• AI Assistant: Allow users to directly edit the widget manually, without needing to go to the edit custom widget menu first.
• AI Assistant: Allow users to delete a chat.
• AI Assistant: Allow users to rename a chat, so it is more clear what the chat is about.
• API: Include access level in the response of the `/users/me` endpoint.

• Languages: Add support for Romanian.

• Advanced: Search mode is considered active only when search query is entered.
• Device List: Fix bug when loading remote support details without relevant data.
• Invites: Improve validation when inviting users to installations and fix setting the locale of the invited user.
• Remote console in VictronConnect: Allow users to see remote console in full screen.
• Remote console in VictronConnect: Allow users to choose which version of the remote console to see in full screen.
• Date picker: Fix date picker ignoring URL parameters when going to Advanced from an Alarm.
• Installation data: Add widget for the Grid meter to Installation data section of the Dashboard for specific systems with a Grid meter (i.e. with Grid Meter, no Inverter/Charger/Inverter+Charger).
• Advanced: Added scrollbar when there are too many custom widgets.
• Advanced: Enabled scrolling on the advanced page for newly added custom widgets.
• Teams: Allow only the invited user to accept the invite link.
• Teams & Installation groups: Set page title for single team and installation group pages.
• Fleet monitor: Added 'Command+K' search bar to to the page.
• Add installation: Show a message if the user already has an existing invite for the site.
• Enhanced search: Fix error caused by by using quotation marks in the search query.
• AI Assistant: Change the internal architecture and introduce the suggestions and feedback capabilities.

• Dashboard: Fix Sync with OS display preference not working as intended on the Dashboard.
• Firmware file upload: Improve file extension validation and filtering for .vup, .dup, and .xup.
• Fleet monitor: Fixed a bug that prevented fleet-monitor from fetching data in parallel on production.

• Alarm rules: Allow adding alarm rules for multiple installation, in batch.
• Teams/Installation groups: Redirect user to team/installation group page after they accept an invite.
• Login: Added a 'x' icon to the email and password fields to allow users to reset the inputs with a single click.
• Login: Added an 'eye' icon to the password field to hide/show it.
• Dashboard: Added translation to “Now” label.
• Add installation: Made 'Replace GX Device' button translatable.
• Fleet monitor: Improve the page load time by fetching data in parallel more.
• Venus OS Large: The links to external services like Node-RED and Signal K now open in a new browser tab.
• Dashboard: Fix “Now” indicator not updating when the hour changes.

• Fleet monitor: Significantly improve page responsiveness after a lot of data is loaded.
• Venus OS Large: Explain that 'VRM Portal Mode' should be set to 'Full' to access Node-RED and Signal-K.

• General: Added a backup font in case the browser cannot render special characters (Russian, Ukrainian, etc).
• General: The default time that notifications are shown was increased to 20 seconds.
• Advanced: Fixed a bug that allowed editing multiple widgets via 'Enable/Disable All Widgets' even when widgets were locked.
• Advanced: Added a 'Create with AI' button next to the 'Create Custom Widget' button to highlight the possibility of creating a custom widget using AI.
• Fleet monitor: Decrease the time it takes for the page to load with data.

• Validation: Fix TypeError in validators
• Dynamic ESS Report: Improve code quality & make sure the report is generated in the user's preferred language.

• Infrastructure: Upgrade backend API framework to newer version
• Site groups: Make the alarm toggle changeable for your own account even if you are not group owner/admin.

• Users: Add mailto link to teams, groups & installation user management pages to simplify contacting users in case of issues.
• Installation overview: Your favourite installations will now show on top of your installation overview.
• Device List: Show local IP address again.
• Reporting: Fix Dynamic ESS report not showing at all if DESS was off for a portion of the selected period.
• Preferences: Redesigned the preferences pages.

• Navbar: Fix `Dynamic ESS` settings not being shown in the navbar on pages in the new frontend framework.
• VictronConnect: Add route to support future remote console feature.
• Groups: Fix bug where a team as site-group administrators are not able to add a site they have full access to.

• Dashboard: Show different banner for opportunistic battery balancing.
• Settings: Allow user to reset his consumption forecast.
• General: Animate VRM AI Assistant button icon.

• Login: Remove `***` placeholder from the password field to prevent confusion.

• Installation overview: Make all filters apply immediately for consistent behaviour.
• Installation group: Fix styling of 'Link user' modal inputs on smaller devices.
• Fleet monitor: Added relative difference column to the solar widget.

• Dashboard: Fix Demo mode banner not showing for certain modes.

• Dashboard: Fix turning DESS off in the controls also causing DESS to be turned off in the site's settings.

• Device Overview: Add icon for Energy Solutions Smart Switch
• Dashboard: Add new data attribute 'apt' and hide Passthrough from Controls based on it
• Alarms: Fix error caused by missing data attribute for Tank and Temperature Sensor alarms

• Firmware update: Updating a GX device now properly waits with rescanning until the GX device is done rebooting

• Diagnostics: Migrate page to new frontend framework

• Fleet Monitor: Add enhanced search functionality triggered by the Command/Ctrl + K shortcut
• Venus OS Large: Add support for connecting to Node-Red/Signal-K over IPv6

• Device Registration: Added spinner to login page when you open it after clicking device registration from remote console

• Add Installations: Add new page where sites can be added in bulk with the option of giving a name to the site and tags
• Teams: Add the permission for admins/owner of the team to unlink it from a site to which the team has read-only right
• Dashboard: Display AC Meter cards per instance for installations with energy meters and without certain devices
• VRM AI Assistant: Introducing the AI Assistant, which is capable of helping users with adding custom widgets to the Advanced page

• Device list: Add GX IO Extender support
• Dashboard: Display PV inverter cards per instance when using dashboard layout for installations with energy meters and without certain devices

• Navigation: Implement 'identifier search' in the new navigation bar.
• Dashboard: Add new layout for installations with energy meters and without certain devices
• Dashboard : Add EV card on dashboard to view EV information.
• Register: Dealers can now share a link to new users to automatically link them to their dealer account after registering.
• Register: Make go to login button smaller.

• Controls: Fix ESS controls not working for users with a non-Enligh language.

• Controls: Fix EVCS manual charge toggle on mobile.
• General: Fix a language issue when entering demo mode
• Installation data: Improve the logic for showing and hiding the dropdown items Solar and EV Charger.
• Login: Fix redirecting users with one installation to their dashboard.
• Controls: Fix unable to change EVCS mode

• Dashboard: New UI for the controls section on mobile to prevent accidental changes.
• Dashboard: Fix VRM freezing under specific conditions when DESS is enabled.
• Admin Device search: Allow searching by VE.Bus serial number.
• Login: Improve performance & prevent showing the login page when already logged in.

• Login: Fix incorrect language being set when initially visiting the login page

• Login: Fix account language being overwritten by login

• Login/Register: Polyfill the new form items to work on iOS 15, until we stop support it completely.

• Login/Register: Decrease image size to improve page loading time

• Navbar: Fixed background not staying blurry when navigating between sites on a mobile device
• Login/Register: Improve design for the login and register page

• Advanced: Added new widgets: EV Location, EV SOC, EV State

• Alarm Rules: Fixed issue where Automatic Alarm Monitoring would not update properly when moving to a different page

• DESS: fixed the DESS configuration page sometimes not loading

• Site Unlinking: Improve UX of API when unlinking a user from a site that wasn't bound in the first place
• Alarms: Allow filling in decimals and negative numbers on mobile devices
• DESS: Add support for ENTSOE multiple pricing options

• Dashboard: Fix incorrect magnitudes for large numbers, e.g. 20560W should be 20,56kW

• Recurring Reports: Make sure users get their report & let them know that their report template may need a correction (e.g. missing kWh sell price)

• Data Download: Fix corrupt Excel file when the selected timerange does not data available
• Alarms: Validate basic info when adding or editing alarm rules
• Widgets: Fix issue where timeseries could not be properly merged together

• Device list: Add icon for Motor drive.

• Teams: Fixed an issue where buttons in some modals couldn't be clicked on mobile
• Device list: Add event log when a user opens Victron Connect
• Command K: Add CommandK modal functionality in the context of an installation to navigate between installation pages
• Mail Templates: Fix a couple missing variables & add monitoring
• DESS: Remove `error_codes` for a successful DELETE call
• Fleet Monitor: Fixed widgets sometimes not loading for users with >1500 sites

• Fleet Monitor: Removed the “Today's Alarms” card from the page to avoid confusion
• Dashboard: Added support for new attributes to control tracker availability and conditionally hide trackers based on their values
• Avatar: Added role-specific icons to user avatars for admins and technicians
• Installation Overview: Remove unnecessary loop, slightly increasing performance when getting the minigraphs
• Global Banner: Reduce the amount of times the banner is fetched to once per minute
• Device list: Added “Open in Victron Connect” buttons

• Dashboard: Fix DESS cost and savings graph to show correct savings
• Notifications: Fix email notifications toggle bug

• Advanced: Fix .xlsx downloads to not have corrupt headers
• Event logs: Fix bug where event logs timestamps were shown based on location timezone instead of timezone set in GX device
• Menu: Fixed bug where the Admin section was not visible in the menu on the Event Logs and Fleet Monitor pages.

• Alarm notifications: Fix bug where users would get their alarm notifications randomly muted

• Fleet monitor: Introduce fleet monitor page with alarms overview chart and stats widgets

• Alarms: Stop showing an error after an alarm was successfully deleted.
• Dynamic ESS: Fix energy prices graph when a site is in an earlier timezone than the user.

• Invite Emails: Fix templating mistake in invite e-mails where personal message sender was not properly filled.
• Two-factor Authentication: Add a `Recommended` badge on the more secure Authenticator App option to decrease reliance on vulnerable SMS 2FA.

• Eventlogs: First page to have been rebuilt in a new frontend framework, functionality stays the same.

• Installation dashboard: Fix the “DESS prices missing” alert banner showing when prices are not missing.
• Installation dashboard: Show forecasts as a range.
• Installation groups: Display admins of installation groups.
• Reporting: Improve UX/UI of sliders when inserting values manually.

• Infrastructure: Upgrade PHP & improve server performance.
• Dynamic ESS: Remove unnecessary labels for math tokens in the formula builder.

• Dashboard: Fixed an issue where the “This week” date range would select the incorrect start date.
• Profile: When changing your account email, also send an email to the old email address to notify of this change.
• General: Created a new banner which is displayed on all pages to urge non admin users to turn on two factor authentication.
• Add installation: Adjusted GX device replacement dropdown height to keep search bar visible.
• Enhanced search: Improved navigation and search consistency, keeping the input focused while navigating.

• Internal: Only save images in S3 and remove image from S3 on delete.
• API: Fix users being able to set any minute value in price schedule

• Installation overview: Allow users to filter installations using alarm tags

• General settings: Redirect users to the `add-installation` page when transferring a GX device.

• DESS: Always write the DESS settings to Venus, even when DESS is turned off.

• Users: enable linking user to a site individually, even though they are already linked through a team or a group
• Advanced: Added a “scroll to top” button to make it easier to navigate the advanced page
• Advanced: Added a “scroll to widget” button allowing users to easily scroll to a specific widget

• Location: Fix timezone not updating when changing the location.

• Advanced: Save the latest 5 widget searches.
• Event logs: Do not show consecutive advanced page changes.
• Internal: retry transactions 3 times in case of deadlock.
• Advanced: Fix issue with chart where certain data points were filtered out when the value was zero

• Site share: Hide the exact location by default (Dashboard: Weather card, Advanced: GPS widget)
• Remote Console: Update the proxy URL for custom gui-v2 WASM binaries to non-deprecated /gui-v2
• Enhanced search: Show Command+K icon on the text input of the Enhanced Search and update the modal design
• Dashboard: Restructure the formatting of the generator runtime to make it more readable and fix the alignments of the piecharts

• Victron Connect: Improve performance of retrieving installations when using replica database
• Dynamic ESS: Synchronise configuration with Venus OS
• Add Installation: Allow selecting the correct device type of the form using a productId URL parameter instead of the device type

• Site permissions: Fix losing access to site when deleting team regardless of site membership

• Recurring Reports: Fix recurring reports not being sent due to an error

• Advanced: Connect the data points of custom graphs that display prices or total energy
• Add Installation: Improve GX device replacement flow
• Device List: Remove 'unlink sites' button from a site's device list
• Installation users: Add modal confirmation before deleting user, team or installation group
• Installation overview: Fix installation name overflowing its container

• Navbar: For users with more than 10 sites, make the 'All installations' button show in the navbar on site-level
• Installation graph: Show installation data for the last year in the installation graph on the dashboard

• General Settings: Fix GX replacement error caused by database changes
• Alarms: Add proper validation on 'noDataAlarmTimeout' after seeing errors

• API: Return the id of the Access Token used in the `/me` endpoint.

• Event Log: Display the name of the user that changed the general settings of the site
• Event Log: Display the name of the user that added / removed a tag and display the tag name
• Event Log: Add new event descriptions when installation settings are updated to be more descriptive
• Device List: Add reboot button for GX device
• Remote VEConfigure: Add site name to VE.config download file
• Teams: Improved management of team member roles and updated UI
• Devices: Added icon for heatpump
• Navbar: Clicking on an installation on the navbar while holding the command (on Mac) button or control (on Windows) will open the site in a new tab
• Installation Overview: In the grid view, now you can see the battery to grid and the PV to grid values
• Installation Overview: On mobile, made the 'add installation' button less prominent, as it isn't a typical mobile user flow
• Installation Overview: Fix incorrect columns on the 'Active Alarms' pane

• Navigation Bar: Fix showing “Teams & Groups” for users with more than 1 installation

• Dashboard: Fix tank sensor values being displayed as “-” even though they are not outdated

• Advanced: Display the custom name of the MPPT tracker for that tracker's widget.
• Dashboard: Allow users to set site avatar in a popup window.
• Dynamic ESS Report: Dynamic ESS Report provides insight of energy bought, sold, and prices over a selected period.
• Enhanced search: Add support for partial search for the names of the sites.
• Installation overview: Allow a user to include all their sites in the production report if they have filters enabled.
• General: Improve message formatting for api request validation errors.
• Reporting: Fix reports not downloading for larger timeranges.
• Installation overview: Add monitoring to minigraphs to investigate potential empty graphs.
• Dynamic ESS: Quickly go back to overview after changing one step.
• Dashboard: While on a day view, using the arrows now always takes you to the following day.
• Installation overview: Added a battery icon to display battery percentages similar to how it is done for tanks.

• Admin: Store data attribute filters in the URL

• Advanced: Fix Generator State widget not showing values.

For earlier changelogs, see https://www.victronenergy.com/live/vrm_portal:change_log_2015-2024.