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VenusOS GUI enhancements and modifications
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PV Charger W text "shades" red bar #20

Closed virtuvas closed 2 years ago

virtuvas commented 2 years ago

hi, really splitting hair comment, feel free to ignore :-) note the following pic:

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7W text is blocking the bottom pixel of the red bar. Text becomes longer (say three digit) block becomes proportionally longer. Guess one solution is move red bar 1pixel up, or wonder how text rendering works on the screen. System is r-pi 3B+ with the 7in official touchscreen. Running Venus OS 2.80 11 large 20

cheers

V.

PS. thanks for all your work makes a great difference to running VenusOS on a rpi touchscreen !

kwindrem commented 2 years ago

Not sure what the red bar is. My gauge should have a light colored green and red bar wider than the actual power bar. Plus the entire gauge fits between the tile title and the total power number. Like this:

Screen Shot 2021-10-09 at 8 45 06 AM

That's not the position of the red bar in your screen shot.

Does this red bar go away if you turn off power gauges in the GuiMods menu? Have you set the power limit for the PV charger properly?

Maybe reinstall the package?

virtuvas commented 2 years ago

oops! looks like I took the pic before I setup limits for the PV. Looking at it now over remote console it is indeed similar to the pic you posted. Will visit the boat tomorrow and check, but mostlikely i'd not set the limits. apologies!

kwindrem commented 2 years ago

You can set the limits at Settings / Display & Language / GuiMods / Power Gauge.

I tried to reproduce your single red bar but could not.

virtuvas commented 2 years ago

thanks yes, set the limits from remote console the evening after I took the photo onboard... BTW, one thing I've noticed is that after an auto update (went to 3.13 around 40mins ago) signalk stops broadcasting everything but the venus.com.victronenergy.* data. Have to reboot the rpi to get it working fully again. Any ideas? have you come across that? Obvs running Large.

kwindrem commented 2 years ago

I'm not running the large version of Venus so these are just guesses:

After an update I restart the gui process. I know the CANbus stuff is started by the "gui" and maybe other things as well.

Try a killall gui and see if that messes with signalk. There's probably nothing I can do about this but at least you'll know. If that is what's happening, you might want to post to the Victron community forum and ask if anyone knows why and possibly what to do about it.

kwindrem commented 2 years ago

I'd disable automatic package updates until you can get a handle on signalk getting messed up.

virtuvas commented 2 years ago

hm, rebooted remotely, all worked fine, then sshed in and did a killall gui (tbh, didn't even remember the killall but anyway) everything still working fine (signalk I mean) Tried to check what processes are running with gui in them and did another couple of killall gui. I have: supervise gui multilog t s 25000 n4 /var/log/gui /opt/victronenergy/gui/gui -nomouse -display Multi:

only the last one changes PID, dunno if that means something to you.

V.

virtuvas commented 2 years ago

Kevin, image

image is indeed fine. killall doesn't mess with signalk et al. Any other idea what you're doing and may affect signalk?

cheers V.

kwindrem commented 2 years ago

The GuiMods setup script replaces some of the GUI's QML files and adds some setting parameters if they are missing. After all the changes, I do a killall gui. That's it. I can't think of what could be upsetting Signal K.

virtuvas commented 2 years ago

thanks, I'll close this and ask at Victron Modifications as suggested.

V.