Due to side effects it is possible that the inverter receives the request but the DTU does not receive the answer. In this case the DTU would resend the request but the inverter would generate a event log entry (DTU command failed) because it received the message twice.
* VE.Direct: reset state machine on timeout
there will never be a large gap between two bytes of the same frame.
if such a large gap is observed, reset the state machine so it tries
to decode a new frame once more data arrives.
this is helpful in case of corrupted data that prevents the state
machine of transitioning to the final state even though the VE.Direct
data producer is done sending bytes that belong to the same frame.
* VE.Direct: print problems to MessageOutput
this includes the web console in particular, where many users have
access to while the serial console is not attached or monitored.
* VE.Direct: collect serial input into buffer and print
should help debug issues for users.
* VE.Direct: implement and use verbose logging switch
It can sometimes occour that the DevInfo request returns invalid data. Currently this is identified if the firmware build year is < 2016. In this case the package will be re-requested now.
* DPL: implement verbose logging switch
* MQTT: implement verbose logging switch
* power meter: implement verbose logging switch
* Hoymiles lib: implement verbose logging switch
* cpp linting: "final" makes "virtual" and "override" redundant
... however, using only "final" is not as verbose.
This is required to successfull move the inverter to another frequency and then polling it. Without this command its not even possible to poll a inverter.
Fixes#1127
* VE.Direct: remove polling interval
the polling interval was meant to limit the amount of MQTT updates.
however, that is already controlled by the global MQTT publish interval.
the removed interval was instead used to limit polling of the VE.Direct
UART for incoming data.
the Victron device sends data unsolicited. the VeDirectFrameHandler does
not implement any polling mechanism. no data is ever sent to the Victron
device.
what the removed polling interval did was cause a buffer overrun of the
HardwareSerial class, since the incoming data was not processed in time.
so every five seconds, we read a whole valid VE.Direct frame, plus some
old data, which was not a whole frame, leading to VE.Direct error
messages to pop up.
with the polling interval removed, no framing errors are reported, and
instead we gain new data from the charge controller approximately ever
two seconds -- for free.
* VE.Direct: change texts to correct VE.Direct capital letters
* VE.Direct: improve "UpdatesOnly" switch labels
especially since the publish interval setting is gone, the label makes
it hard to comprehend what the switch does. update the texts to better
explain what the switch is used for.
use the same text on the VE.Direct info view.
* VE.Direct: use StatusBadge on info view
there were custom badges to indicate the VE.Direct settings. replace
those by the common StatusBadge to make then look the same as the other
badged on the info views.
* add calculated values to VE.Direct data
solar current, battery output power, and the charger's efficiency can be
calculated from the values reported by the charger. the efficiency must
be taken with a grain of salt. it seems that the solar power value and
the battery output voltage/current are not always in sync. for that
reason a moving average is used to smooth out the calculated efficiency
value.
* show calculated VE.Direct values in web live view
order the values and translations similarly for the input and output,
starting with power at the top, then voltage, then current as the last
of these three.
* VE.Direct live view: use 'd' as unit for days
'd' is the SI unit symbol for days and does not need translation, which
is desirable as units are not translated throughout the project.
* refactor VE.Direct live view
* move Dynamic Power Limiter data into its own type.
* split VE.Direct data into three types: "device", "input", and
"output". hence all input and output values are now ValueObject, which
allows to iterate over them using a loop without typing issues.
* generate the tables with input and output values using a loop, rather
than defining each row individually.
* localize numbers using $n (vue method), which fixes switching the
number format (dot vs. comma) when switching the language.
* use no decimal point for power values (they are integers), three
decimal points for kWh values (charger only reports two decimal
places, but three are easier to read since the unit is *kilo* Wh), one
decimal point for the efficiency, and two for voltage and current.
* update language tokens to avoid mapping JSON keys to language keys
(use the JSON keys to access the language tokens).
* re-structure language tokes so the brief keys took over from
VeDirectFrameHandler always make sense (nest into "input" and
"output").
* order values similarly from top to bottom: power, then voltage, then
current. this is following the order of the inverters' details.
* group values by type/unit (yield and max. power) and order them
"newest" to "oldest" from top to bottom.
* increase the DynamicJsonDocument as it was too small to hold the newly
added data.
* update webapp_dist to include VE.Direct live view refactoring
