2024.8.0

Release Highlights

• Backend performance improvements
• Controller and UI for "dimming" of an energy storage system according to German law §14a EnWG
• Lots of code quality improvements in UI
• Not yet in this release, but in the final review: Long short term memory (LSTM) prediction models for Time series Data by @Bishalghimire1997 and @pooran-c

Details

Common/General

• Correct references to build.adoc by @HarmOtten in #1150
• Update build actions by @da-Kai in #2697
• FEMS Backports 2024-07 in #2727
  • Gradle: automate version update for android build.gradle
  • Controller.Ess.Limiter14a: Edge Controller and UI visualization for "dimming" according to German law §14a EnWG

OpenEMS Backend

• FEMS Backports 2024-07 in #2727
  • Performance optimizations
    • Drop PerMessageDeflate because it has bad effects on performance with a high number of connected Edges
    • Add a copy of Draft6455 which does not throw an exception internally
    • Reduce Exceptions
    • OnOpen: no unnecessary parsing of handshake + do not throw Exception
    • Parse JsonrpcMessage inside Executor Thread
    • sendMessage by default never throws Exception
    • use StringBuilders where feasible
    • throw the same Exception for all disposed requests in WsData
  • InfluxDB: remove filter for sunspec channels
  • Metadata: add handling of "ems type"
  • Aggregated Influx: add channels for ctrlEssLimiter14a0
  • Cleanup logs:
    • "No measurement provided for zoneId"
    • "Channels missing in Current-Data "
  • WsData:
    • handle failed send message
    • set WsData.WebSocket via constructor
  • Change debugLog interval to 5 seconds
  • Replace run() with standard method names
  • Add internal WebsocketPerformanceTestApp
  • Drop now unused Websocket DebugMode
• Backend Metadata: reuse getPageDevice method for MetadataFile and MetadataDummy by @sfeilmeier in #2728

OpenEMS Edge

• Unit Tests: Add test case for alphabetical scheduler by @parapluplu in #2698
• SimulatorApp: fix bug related to creation of Ess.Power component by @parapluplu in #2722
• Fix documentation for allowed charge power of managed symmetric ess by @parapluplu in #2714
• FEMS Backports 2024-07 in #2727
  • Home Battery:
    • fix calculation of number of towers
    • handle tower exceptionally not 0/null for some bms versions
    • downgrade uncritical states to INFO
  • Battery-Protection: add SoC-to-Percent characteristics & implement for FENECON Home Battery
  • KACO Battery-Inverter: optimize state machine handling
  • MR Gridcon: move obsolete bundle to archive
    • See https://github.com/fenecon/openems-archive/tree/main/io.openems.edge.ess.mr.gridcon
  • Translation keys for timedata category

OpenEMS UI

• fix: resolve ts-strict and angular compatibility by @miettal in #2687
• fix: decrease using type of any to get typing benefit by @miettal in #2704
• fix: add type to test code by @miettal in #2702
• fix: add null type to null initialization variables by @miettal in #2701
• fix: add types to edgeconfig.ts by @miettal in #2699
• FEMS Backports 2024-07 in #2727
  • Fix Nullpointer thrown through chart.js after failed query.
    • Apparently chartjs not having completely rendered datasets and property borderColor was missing
  • Extend vscode extensions with 18n ally
    • add i18n ally to vscode extensions
  • Fix ChartJs yAxis scaling for only 0 values in data series
    • Chartjs y-axis Scaling for only null or/and 0 values in data series results in doing negative and positive scaling
  • Add missing redirect after token expired
    • Token expired, old route got reloaded, no redirection to /login
  • Add Power-Assistant
    • Add Power-Assistant to UI Settings
    • Show relevant channels for power constraints; sorted by Scheduler
    • Cleanup Settings + separate ADMIN widgets
  • Add subnavigation to consumption history
    • restructured overdue shared folder
    • added current and voltage chart (only visible for Role.INSTALLER to consumption and production history
    • added subnavigation to consumption history
  • Add missing module for angular date picker
    • Add missing import for pickdatepopovercomponent, unittest will follow soon
  • Fix live modal visualization of meters
  • Add Unittest for angular-my-date-picker
    • Testing if button click is opening calendar or rather if this component exists in the DOM after button click
  • Move Helpbutton to its right module
  • Prepare platform check to login page
  • Fix other consumption calculation
    • Adding unittest for calculation of other consumption
    • Fixing wrong calculation of other consumption for multiple evcs and consumptionMeters
  • Refactor gridOptimizedCharge history
  • Replace global role with edge role check
    • /settings: replacing check for global Role with edge Role
    • Add unittest for role in /settings
  • Live-EnergyMonitor: use new sum Max/Min ESS DischargePower channels
  • refactor variables and methods in right order
    • Refactors every variable and method to member-ordering rule.
    • See: [https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/member-ordering/]

Version Upgrades

• Bump peaceiris/actions-gh-pages from 3 to 4 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot in #2690
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 5 to 6 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot in #2689
• Build(deps): Bump org.apache.felix:org.apache.felix.webconsole from 5.0.4 to 5.0.6 in /cnf by @dependabot in #2713
• Build(deps): Bump de.bytefish:pgbulkinsert from 8.1.3 to 8.1.4 in /cnf by @dependabot in #2712
• Build(deps): Bump org.jsoup:jsoup from 1.17.2 to 1.18.1 in /cnf by @dependabot in #2711
• Build(deps): Bump org.apache.felix:org.apache.felix.http.jetty from 5.1.22 to 5.1.24 in /cnf by @dependabot in #2710
• Build(deps): Bump swiper from 11.1.4 to 11.1.5 in /ui by @dependabot in #2709
• Build(deps): Bump @ngx-formly/ionic from 6.3.5 to 6.3.6 in /ui by @dependabot in #2708
• Build(deps): Bump capacitor-blob-writer from 1.1.16 to 1.1.17 in /ui by @dependabot in #2707
• Build(deps): Bump @capacitor/core from 5.2.3 to 5.7.6 in /ui by @dependabot in #2695
• Build(deps-dev): Bump @capacitor/cli from 5.2.3 to 6.1.0 in /ui by @dependabot in #2696
• Build(deps-dev): Bump @capacitor/cli from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1 in /ui by @dependabot in #2720
• Build(deps): Bump @capacitor/ios from 5.2.3 to 5.7.7 in /ui by @dependabot in #2719
• Build(deps): Bump compare-versions from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1 in /ui by @dependabot in #2718
• Build(deps): Bump @capacitor/core from 5.7.6 to 5.7.7 in /ui by @dependabot in #2716
• Build(deps): Bump swiper from 11.1.5 to 11.1.8 in /ui by @dependabot in #2726
• Update Gradle to 8.9 by @sfeilmeier in #2706
• Build(deps-dev): Bump @stylistic/eslint-plugin from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 in /ui by @dependabot in #2725
• Build(deps): Bump org.dhatim:fastexcel from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 in /cnf by @dependabot in #2724
• Build(deps): Bump @capacitor/android from 5.2.3 to 5.7.7 in /ui by @dependabot in #2717

New Contributors

• @HarmOtten made their first contribution in #1150
• @JonasE99 made their first contribution in #2727
• @johannk24 made their first contribution in #2727
• @fabian94533 made their first contribution in #2727

Full Changelog: 2024.7.0...2024.8.0