Firmware greetings fantastic forum fans.
EPIC 3.5.0 has landed in your manage.groov.com portal, so let’s take a look at what is waiting to be installed at your convenience.
groov EPIC 3.5
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Update Node-RED to 3.0.2. Be sure and check out Terry’s blog next week with what’s new in this version
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Update nodeJS to 14.20.0. This is going to be very welcome by our Node-RED users. A wide range of nodes have v14 as their minimum supported version.
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Allow a user to specify what version of a Node-RED package to install via groov Manage Node-RED menu. The need to install different versions of nodes has come up more than a few times in these forums, so this will be a really helpful tool should you ever need to roll things back a version or two for any reason.
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Add UI for “npm rebuild” command in Node-RED menu.
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Sparkplug 3.0 compliance. Opto22 is one of the few PLC / IPCs to have this compliance.
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Add I/O batch operation (set all I/O to public for example)
For any of you that have had to ‘Make Public’ the 64 channels on the power module, we are feeling your ~300 mouse click pain. This new batch operation option will make it a lot less time consuming and way less ‘mouse miles’ to do bulk actions going forward.
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Add a new page in the I/O services menu for MMP Streaming.
Streaming is one of those very powerful but rather hidden features of the Opto controllers for decades. Nice to see a more visible way to use this feature on the groov EPIC.
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Add a page like the MMP Calculator page, but for all the Modbus details that pertain to EPIC in Chapter 3 of the Modbus/TCP Protocol Guide (Form 1678).
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Add Data Service status visibility in groov Manage for connected devices, CPU etc. This will be very helpful for heavy users of OPCUA and or MQTT/Sparkplug to be able to see the process details.
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On EPIC, from within PAC Control, you can now retrieve the extra strategy information: Strategy Name, Compile Date, Compile Time and CRC
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Add a “Enable/Disable” button to the groov View management page in groov Manage. This brings groov View process in line with the other optional processes (like Node-RED for example).
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Update Ignition Edge 7 to 7.9.21
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Update Ignition Edge 8 to 8.1.21 & Modules 4.0.16
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Add the ability to disable one of the phases of the groov Power Module. (For quick and accurate two phase measurements)
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Add support to PAC Project for groov EPIC system digital output On and Off totalization features
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Disable TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1 & Medium strength SSL Ciphers
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Upgrade CODESYS Controller to 3.5.18.40
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Add support for the Get Counter command to read 32-bit counters on analog channels (primarily for the groov EPIC power module)
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Show the chassis type in groov Manage (Help → About)
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GRV-ITR-12, Raise the DegC limit from 150C to 450C for “Thermistor:Custom Curve” Channel Type.
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Update Java JDK To 8.0.372
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There are many bug fixes, one that jumps out at me is that large Node-RED projects cant be uploaded, well now they can.
groov View
- Add OPCUA authentication (user/pass or cert). This will allow your groov View project to connect with another OPCUA server that has authentication enabled.
- Add option for human readable timestamp on trend download (vs Epoch time). A lot of users are pulling CSV trend data from groov View and this will help the process go a lot smoother when importing or opening the data in another application
- Allow users to assign a default page per project, user or group
- Add ability to hide the title / navigation bar totally. Kiosk users will find this really helpful
- Show file size and use count in image library
- Bug fixes… Many, including remove : from vertical range indicator, pages drop from page menu in view mode, select No Tag fixed and the bug where deleting a gadget may cause the desktop and handheld views to get out of sync