Chapter . Release Notes

Start Logic Controller after upgrade (broken in 2.3.15).

Source CSV files can be sent to AmmonitOR and per email.

Fix incomplete CSV files occasionally generated with very large number of RS-485 sensors.

Fix some irradiance summary values missing in CSV footer and SCADA server.

New Kipp & Zonen CNR 4 Net Radiometer (Pyrgeometers)

Fix Logic Controller clean up deleted rule.

Add Wet Bulb Temperature formula in Evaluation Helper.

Add quality control filter for ZX 300 LiDAR wind speed and wind direction values.

New Biral SWS-100 weather station implementation including Self-test codes.

RS-485 sensors status Live values are now available over SCADA.

Fix Source Data Evaluated data only skipping some RS-485 channels.

New Kipp & Zonen RaZON+ solar tracker (Solar Trackers).

New Hydreon RG-15 rain gauge, Low and High Resolution variants (Rain Gauge).

New EKO MS-80SH Plus+ rotating shadowband solar monitoring station (Rotating Shadowband Irradiometer).

New Kipp & Zonen SMP11 pyranometer (Pyranometers).

New Schilling SB10 barometric pressure sensor (Barometric Pressure Sensors).

New Thies Wind Vane TMR RS-485 with Modbus RTU output (Wind Vanes).

New Kipp & Zonen SMP10x pyranometer (Pyranometers).

Improve CECS file system's resilience.

Prevent the clock from losing time when the supply voltage is unstable.

Use NTP as default time synchronisation method for newly produced devices (see Date and Time, Location).

Ignore maximum offset for automatic time adjustments for the NTP time synchronisation method. The threshold only applies for GPS method.

Keep CECS on as long as the high voltage is present, for digital channels previously configured to start the CECS. Available at the Logic Controller or at the CECS Power Mode menu.

Fix keep selected switches on despite CECS shutdown (see Section 4.7, “Configuring Switches”).

Fix selecting a voltage source for the Wind Vane Generic Voltage sensor.

Enhanced SCADA Server Modbus Register Map autofill logic (see Section 8.2, “Meteo-42 Modbus Server”).

Fix Clear Modbus Register Map button.

Remove superfluous sections from CSV files footer.

All statistic types are now available for evaluations of type Other (see statistics selection menu).

Add Irradiance clip formula in Evaluation Helper, with Minimum Irradiance Threshold parameter (MIT).

Add MIT clip parameter for newly configured RS-485 pyranometers (defaults to 0 W/m²).

RS-485 Serial Interface usability enhancements.

Fix write single coil ON over the RS-485 Serial Interface.

Fix Evaluation Helper form clean-up.

Add substraction formula to the Evaluation Helper.

Add differential wind direction angle formula to the Evaluation Helper.

New Source Data CSV files (see Section 6.5, “Source Data Files”).

Do not request calibration table for Thies Anemometer FCA X - Modbus implementation (see Section 10.6.1, “Thies First Class Advanced X”).

New sensor Ice Condition Monitoring System Icetek IC-1 (see Weather Stations).

New sensor EKO MS-57S.

Fix delay on Logic Controller actions start.

Preserve Logic Controller rules state across CECS reboot.

Sensor's digital channels can now be used to start the CECS from Logic Controller or CECS Power Mode menus.

Fix copy source data to USB flash drive.

Fix CSV files time stamp if only 'Val' statistics are included in the files.

Increased robustness against the effects of an ungraceful shutdown on the availability of measurement data.

Request actual values instead of normalized for power Meter Iskra MT540 extended (see Table 10.30, “Multifunction Transducer, Power Meters and other Electrical Measurement Devices”).

New sensor Precipitation Analyzer Thies.

Fix send SMS over Logic Controller.

New Ammonit Soiling Monitor in Sensor Helper.

A switch can be associated to an Analog Voltage sensor in order to control its power supply.

Tilt angle can be configured for soiling measurement devices as documentation.

Allow RS-485 sensor ID reuse for Thies and Gill protocols.

Discard Lufft WS 60x wind speed and wind direction overflowing values.

New Ultrasonic Snow Depth Sensor ULM30/N CAE 0-5V.

Increase default value of maximum offset for automatic time adjustments to 10 minutes (see Date and Time, Location).

Show error note if the data logger time differs more than five minutes from the browser time.

Improve reliability of the CSV columns sorting algorithm.

New extended implementation of Power Meter Iskra MT540 (UMT540 / iMT540) (Table 10.30, “Multifunction Transducer, Power Meters and other Electrical Measurement Devices”).

Fix sine and cosine formulae implementation.

New global tilted irradiance (GTI) evaluation type.

Tilt angle can be added to pyranometer sensors configuration.

Add wind direction sine and cosine formulas to the Evaluation Helper.

Remove long wave solar irradiance evaluation from Kipp & Zonen SMP10 sensor (RS-485 pyranometer).

	Warning
	SMP10 sensors configured with a former version must be newly edited and saved, without changing any setting. Previous measurement values will be correctly parsed.

Include switches status summary in statistics CSV files footer and optional 'Sum' statistic (see statistics selection menu).

Avoid duplicated lines for overlapping gusts in Gust CSV files contents.

Consistently ignore incomplete source data written by consecutive brown-outs.

Include more peripheral device drivers.

Handle configuration changes more reliably in the source data.

Do not show outdated values in livedata and snapshots.

Only attempt to sync the time with NTP when currently online.

Do not incorrectly claim that port 4041 is blocked on the AmmonitOR page.

Ascent can now be configured over the Evaluation Helper.

Add deletion controls and file type information to the inconsistent statistics files page.

Fix resource leaks in statistics and gust file generation.

Add checkbox to enable peripheral device driver upgrades. This can then be immediately used to upgrade the firmware for Wi-Fi access point dongles.

RS485_TIMEOUT errors do not turn on red LED light any more, see Section 9.2, “LED Lights”.

Add "+20 minutes" button to the status box to increase the remaining time by 20 minutes.

New Hexadecimal mode to send any hexadecimal string over the RS-485 Serial Interface.

Fix telegram validation for Thies Anemometer FCA X - ASCII with firmware version V5.01.

Fix Wind Vane Kintech Geovane RS-485 ORN status byte parsing.

Support PTH Thies Compact - RS-485 ASCII with sensor's firmware version V3.09 and later.

	Note
	Only for newly configured sensors, see Section 10.9.2, “Temperature Humidity Sensors connected to RS-485 client”.

New Temperature Sensor for Solar Module IMT Technology Tm-RS485-MB over RS-485.

New Temperature Sensor for Solar Module IMT Technology Tm-Pt1000-box with Connection Box

Add API endpoints to access primary files converted to JSON, see Section 7.10.2, “Avaliable API calls”.

New SCADA Modbus diagnose tool.

New Ammonit I-U Conversion Box with any evaluation type, slope and offset in Sensor Helper.

Allow selection of non-consecutive channels in sensor helper. Add a "Select consecutive channels" button to provide the old behaviour.

Add pagination controls to the statistics file list pages.

Automatically deactivate internal RS-485 biasing for CL1 and CL2 if no sensor configured for the bus.

Add a new "Save and synchronize time" button to the administration page.

Shift internal voltage measurement to match power supply. The internal voltage (V) column will show a shift of around +0.5 V compared to before. This change does not affect voltage channel measurements, only the internal voltage measurement. No sensors or evaluations are affected.

Fix configure set switch state Off in Logic Controller Rule.

Fix Biral SWS-100 checksum verification.

New Biral SWS-100 analog connection in Sensor Helper.

New SMP10 0-1 V in Sensor Helper.

Add "Minimum offset for automatic location adjustments" field to discard location changes due to GPS accuracy error with default 0.001°.

Fix PTH Thies Compact - RS-485 Modbus (S59000A) sensor status value.

Improve tolerance of corrupt source data.

Fix Sineax DM5S implementation.

Fix Gust CSV files contents.

	Note
	Existing files can be re-generated as long as the original source data are still available.

Include Secondary, Tertiary and Gusts files in the Maintenance CSV check.

New Evaluation Helper Wind direction true-north formula to combine a wind direction evaluation with Geovane true-north direction.

Add "Publish logbook to server" field for the live data publisher.

Automatically fix Logic Controller condition duration.

New anemometer NRG S1.

New air pressure sensor NRG BP65.

New precipitation sensor NRG tipping bucket rain gauge.

Fix Logic Controller toggle switch failing for certain configurations.

Add text search field to the sensor helper.

Add API for downloading files in bulk.

Improve resilience to electromagnetic noise on the CECS to MARS connection.

Avoid arbitrary CECS time shifts when the MARS is unreachable.

Proceed with the software upgrade even if the MARS fails to upgrade.

Show sensor serial number in the statistics file configuration footer section.

Limit unit names to 20 characters for AmmonitOR compatibility.

Add Logic Controller Rule option to power on CECS with digital channel.

Add "Start date" field for primary statistics files.

New power meter Sineax DM5S.

Fix active power evaluations order for Sineax CAM.

New autofill option for the SCADA Modbus register map.

Fix logic controller "Turn switch off on CECS shutdown" checkbox default value

Allow introducing more than one IP in SCADA allowed client IP.

Speed up saving Logic Controller rules.

New Logic Controller.

Add "Maximum offset for date time adjustments" field to discard erroneous timestamps from NTP servers and GPS devices with default one minute.

Add "Start date" field for secondary and tertiary statistics and gust files.

Fix channels order in Ammonit Soiling Kit SD2100 implementation.

Calibration values can be introduced for Thies PTH ASCII and Modbus implementations.

Fix SYCBA Monitor units and add configurable slope for current loads (see Section 10.19, “Other RS-485 Sensors”).

Switches may be configured to remain on when CECS shuts down.

Fix minor UI problems in scheduler and AmmonitOR configuration pages.

Solar irradiance temperature correction formula for pyranometer Hukseflux SR20-T1.

From now on, all new source data is automatically encrypted with AES-256.

Show sensor installation height on evaluation list.

Download the exact amount of source data, not one second too many.

Fix allowed statistics for RS-485 sensors status.

Add Pyranometer Hukseflux SR15-D1, digital first class pyranometer over Modbus RTU.

Add Pyranometer Hukseflux SR300-D1 over Modbus RTU.

New pyranometer MS-80S 0-10 mA.

Add button to configure the browser date and time on the administration page.

Wait longer for the network when sending files if the online action is running.

The CECS Power Mode settings are on the Communication/Schedule page now, instead of System/Administration.

Typical scheduler settings on Communication/Schedule can be set from various templates now.

The web-UI users are no longer modified when uploading configuration files.

Check statistics files for more errors related to ambiguity (see Section 6.3, “Statistics Data Files”).

Revert "Consistently use vector statistics for angular evaluations" change from 2.2.6.

If encryption is enabled, source data copied to a USB flash drive will be encrypted.

Fix Weather Station Lufft WS200-UMB implementation.

Add Pyranometer Rika RK200-03 and Hygro-Thermo-Baro Rika RK330-01 - RS-485.

Add air pressure sensor MSTK-BI-811a by MKS.

Add fields to edit the display contrast to the web UI and LCD menu.

Fix SYCBA Monitor implementation units.

Ammonit Measurement Soiling Kit SD2100 now available in the sensor helper.

Calculation of SR I_SC index normalized according to IEC 61724-1:2021 implemented.

Calculation of SLI normalized implemented.

Fix not-normalized SLI formula. The corrected formula will be used for newly generated CSV files. Older files can be manually deleted and regenerated after the update.

Include all columns when downloading source and evaluated data over the web interface.

Fix several sensor evaluation formulae:

If using an affected sensor, save it (unchanged) in Sensor Helper to apply the corrected formulae, and regenerate statistics if needed.

Show "Wind Vane Thies 8 Bits Parallel via ICP I7051" subchannel configuration in sensor helper.

Use the configured air pressure and humidity in the "Sensible heat flux" evaluation.

Support sending any Modbus RTU frame via RS-485 Serial Interface.

Add Silicon Irradiance Sensor M&T Si-V-10TC-T.

Add Weather Station Lufft WS200-UMB.

Add Visibility Sensor Biral SWS-100.

Include RS-485 measurements in USB source data copy.

Add USB Copy action to the schedule.

Fix gust CSV file generation when using RS-485 or high-frequency sensors.

Consistently allow only slightly negative voltage values for analog voltage wind vanes.

Reset variables such as slope and offset when changing model in sensor helper.

Ignore GPS time adjustments which are close to a multiple of 1024 weeks to work around a bug in the NaviLock GPS dongle.

Rename "Hygro-Thermo-Baro Thies" sensors to "PTH Thies Compact" (S59000A).

Rename "Anemometer Lambrecht wind Professional 14522".

Fix "PTH Thies Compact - Analog" implementation.

Wait longer for the modem to go online, and check the network before attempting to send files.

Add Precipitation Sensor Thies Intensity over Shunt.

Add PTH Thies Compact - RS-485 ASCII.

Fix RS-485 sensors current status not shown in UI (see Thies status byte and Geovane status byte).

Allow several statistics for RS-485 sensors status.

Indicate clock accuracy in web-UI status box.

PT100 and PT1000 sensors are now available.

Consistently use vector statistics for angular evaluations, e.g. "Wind Vane Kintech Geovane Analog" inclination angle.

Swap between "Temperature Humidity sensor Galltec active KPC T/H" and "H/T" correctly.

	Warning
	In version 2.2.5 and below, swapping these sensors would produce an incorrect temperature formula. Invalid statistics files are marked with the "Invalid evaluator variables" error. They must be manually deleted and regenerated after the update.

Prevent time synchronization issues following a factory reset.

Improvements related to internal production procedures.

Display analogue voltage channel overflow as "OF" and underflow as "UF" in the source data instead of "nan".

Run actions which are scheduled only once per week (previously these actions were erroneously skipped).

Allow source data which begins with repeated config changes to be indexed correctly.

Generate statistics files during sending actions even if the configuration is invalid.

Show incoming live data access requests in the web interface.

Rename POA irradiance to Effective irradiance evaluations, correct name for the formula applied.

Allow measurement data with invalid timestamps to be indexed again (not working since 2.2.2).

Output statistics with an appropriate number of decimal places for the measurement precision (in most cases 1 or 2 fewer).

Allow the time zone to be changed without duplicating timestamps or creating artifical gaps.

	Note
	After the upgrade, manually restart the recording once, generate statistics and wait 24 hours before changing the time zone.

Add Effective Irradiance calculation in Evaluation Helper.

Fix configuring 'Wind Vane Lambrecht wind Professional 14521'.

Show progress on the display when copying statistics files to a USB flash drive (missing since 2.2.0).

Fix wind direction calculation for upside down ultrasonic sensors.

Add "Disabled" Ethernet mode for reduced power consumption.

Include more measurements in statistics files either side of configuration changes.

Improved compatibility with GLONASS and Galileo GPS-like devices.

Add "Download sensor database" button on the sensors page.

Fix system instability when configuring ultrasonic anemometers.

Preserve user-submitted inputs when the Sensor Helper form is reloaded.

Fix 'Silicon Irradiance Sensor M&T 2 x 0-10 V' implementation.

Migrate average and standard deviation statistics for secondary and tertiary files.

This is the first public release of Meteo-42.

Wi-Fi stick TL-WN321G does not work

Chinese translation is still incomplete