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Other graphs disappear after activating Dyn ESS #9

Closed LecramRed closed 9 months ago

LecramRed commented 1 year ago

When I activate the Dynamic ESS flow, other graphs in the Node Red dashboard disappear. And reverse: after disabling the Dyn ESS, the graphs appear again. What does the Dyn Ess flow do that other graphs disappear?

dirkjanfaber commented 1 year ago

In order to generate the complex graphs, we use the ui_template node. Unfortunately this does bite with the original charts and so far we were unable to find a working way around this. As this node is a temporary solution (until the functionality moves to VRM) finding a way around this is not the highest priority.

I did look into it and in theory it should be possible by moving away from the ui_template and putting all options in a msg.ui_control field (as shortly described here). But that does not seem to work with adding plugins (which is used for graying out the past hours). Also putting text vertically on the y axis does not seem to be an option. If I look at the github repository of node-red-dashboard, it seems that under the hood a patched version 1.1.1 of chart.js is used. And that version is rather old. Our arbitraryLine plugin node includes and uses version 4.3.0 instead.

So unfortunately there is no quick solution to get this sorted. I'll leave this issue open for a few more days in case someone comes along with a working solution.

dirkjanfaber commented 9 months ago

We've just published a new release, that is more incorporated into the Venus OS and follows the target SOC instead of setting a setpoint and a less than ideal way of idling the battery. This release is no longer dependent on the node-red-dashboard, so that also fixes this issue.

In order to use the new version, you will need to:

More information can be found in the release notes and README.md

LecramRed commented 9 months ago

We've just published a new release, that is more incorporated into the Venus OS and follows the target SOC instead of setting a setpoint and a less than ideal way of idling the battery. This release is no longer dependent on the node-red-dashboard, so that also fixes this issue.

In order to use the new version, you will need to:

  • update Venus OS (to 3.10 or above)
  • update the victron-dynamic-ess node to version 0.1.1
  • update the example flow
  • reconfigure the Dynamic ESS node

More information can be found in the release notes and README.md

That is great, but the version in Node Red is still 0.0.43. Or am I too fast? https://flows.nodered.org/node/victron-dynamic-ess

dirkjanfaber commented 9 months ago

Yes, you are a bit too fast. It is already here. Node-RED usually takes a few hours to synchronize.