Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[2.9] - 2025-03-05

Added

• TRDP (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• Geofencing : Adds option to specify a valid time period for a geofence
• CAN-Bus : added restart-ms setup paramter
• System Infos : allow wwan interface name usb (Quectel NCM devices)
• optiCLOUD : add option to trace every shared attribute change (for debugging)
• Generic MQTT : add option to suppress null values
• Generic MQTT : add support for timestamp token to generate ISO 8601 timestamp
• CAN-Bus : added check if GPIOs are enabled in CMake settings
• CAN-Bus : added option to record rtr and error frames

Changed

• Core : update valijson to version 1.0.4
• Dosto2 : renaming shared attribute name
• Dosto2 : added two new shared attributes for duration in manual state
• Dosto2 : changes in shift logic 1. and 2. scenario
• Math (PREVIEW) : update libmathexpressions to latest version
• optiCLOUD : Report all relevant connection state
• optiCLOUD : shared attribute tracing: mark InitialValue entries
• Generic MQTT : ignore retained message
• CAN-Bus : renamed config parameters and removed unneeded code
• CAN-Bus : Documentation updated

Fixed

• Core : remove unneeded thread move on stopping thread
• Core : SmartModuleThreaded: Fix dead lock
• Core : remove unneeded thread move on stopping thread
• Core : fixed apparent memory leak
• Core : moving modules to destructing thread before destruction
• Geofencing : Fix when checking gps-channels during init process
• Geofencing : Removed unused min satcount channel
• Geofencing : Removed unused satcount channel
• Math (PREVIEW) : latest fix for #timeless operation in math
• System Infos : do not overwrite the old / existing ICCID with n.a. if no iccid is transmitted
• optiCLOUD : FIX: gps location not translated in snapshot data
• optiCLOUD : remove warning when shared attribute message does not contain every channel
• optiCLOUD : fixed threading related memory leak
• Generic MQTT : fixed threading related memory leak
• SSH Client (PREVIEW) : FIX: copy file with invalid destination path to server (now checking isNull(), isValid() and [0] == '\0') MOD: extended warning messages with more information about paths and files

[2.8.1] - 2024-09-12

Added

• microstrain (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• performancereport (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• fmproducer : improved configuration robustness by allowing for case-insensitive enum value selection where applicable

Fixed

• fmproducer : extracting MVB BIPOLAR typed data
• Remote (PREVIEW) : wildcard handling in channel name specification
• Remote (PREVIEW) : streaming restart on subsequent ReadSamplesBegin requests
• Remote (PREVIEW) : module cleanup
• System Infos : improved MD documentation
• Uptime : uptime estimation now using the monotonic clock fixing date and time adjustment related issues

[2.8] - 2024-08-05

Added

• batMON : NEW alarms for low and critical power states and for terminal 15
• CSV Writer (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• Math (PREVIEW) : added MD documentation (PREVIEW)
• ModBus : NEW transport parameter deviceTimeoutInMilliseconds
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : support for node IDs instead of browsepath
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : parameter for signal node ID
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : alias parameter to set channel name
• optiCLOUD : NEW channel config option useTrueTimestamps
• OSF Writer : NEW config parameter ignore for ignoring channels to be recorded
• OSF Writer : NEW CAN-Bus frame support
• Remote (PREVIEW) : NEW plugin for inter-process-communication (PREVIEW)
• SMS Alarms (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• SSH Client (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• ZEDAS (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)

Changed

• Math (PREVIEW) : using new logging mechanism
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : using new log message type

Fixed

• Geofencing : added MD documentation
• GPS : filtering out locations containing zero coordinates
• Math (PREVIEW) : fixed channel consumption issues wrt delayed samples
• ModBus : allowing for slave IDs up to 255
• ModBus : improved logging behavior
• ModBus : fixed response timeout issues
• ModBus : reading register blocks now grouped by slaves
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : added German MD documentation
• System Infos : improved logging behavior
• SCPI : NEW config parameter within omScpi.ini for restricting remote access

Removed

• notifier : REMOVED PLUGIN
• MVB : REMOVED D017M (TCN) support completely

[2.7.1] - 2024-04-29

Added

• Generic MQTT : NEW string data subscription
• Generic MQTT : NEW topic config option processOnChangeOnly
• Generic MQTT : NEW publish channel config option publishLastValue
• Generic MQTT : NEW payloadHint json-iterator
• Generic MQTT : NEW facilities for advanced timestamp extraction from subscribed data

Fixed

• HTTP : corrupt data transmissions
• SMS : error handling and process value formatting
• SMS : event queueing issues

[2.7] - 2024-04-04

Added

• Ecowitt : NEW support for selecting between Ecowitt WS2910 display with WN67 sensor and Ecowitt GW200A gateway with WH65 sensor in simulation
• Geofencing : timeout check for GPS data
• Generic MQTT : NEW support for authentication via Azure SAS Token
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• System Infos : NEW diskstatistics estimation

Changed

• REMOVED Debian 11 (bullseye) support
• batMON : running on current flash configuration parameters when JSON configuration is invalid
• Ecowitt : NEW user configurable measurement data channels
• Geofencing : cleaned up logging

Fixed

• Diagnostics (PREVIEW) : fixed missing alarms
• Diagnostics (PREVIEW) : improved documentation
• GPS : improved documentation
• Math (PREVIEW) : fixed input timeout handling
• Math (PREVIEW) : fixed persistent storage handling
• ModBus : allowing for slave address 247
• Generic MQTT : NEW MQTT client fixing various issues
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : fixed missing data after reconnect
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : removed connecting attempts from module initialization phase
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : checking for configuration type mismatch
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : module destruction and memory issues
• optiCLOUD : NEW MQTT client fixing various issues
• SCPI : identification query response

[2.6] - 2023-12-19

Added

• CAN-Bus : changed configuration parameter interface additionally allowing for arbitrary selection
• Diagnostics (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• GPS : NEW config parameter speedLimit
• GPS : NEW config parameter forwardToPort allowing for GPSD port forwarding
• GPS : NEW config parameter rebootIntervalMs for reboot on broken GPSD connection
• Math (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• Generic MQTT : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : Floating-point support
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : config parameter acceptAllCertificates
• optiCLOUD : NEW alarm message transmission mechanism (PREVIEW) when config parameter alarmsEnabled is set to true
• optiCLOUD : implemented status channels
• optiCLOUD : transmitting device serial number
• ruuvi : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• System Infos : NEW channels for monthly and total monthly WWAN traffic amount

Changed

• Accelerometer : updated sensor setup to configure high resolution mode
• Accelerometer : updated default scale value to 2g
• HTTP : updated to latest cURL library
• optiCLOUD : adjusted log file categories
• optiCLOUD : augmented log messages by module instance index
• optiCLOUD : increased minimum polling cycle interval to one second
• System Infos : optiMEAS device detection
• SCPI : integrated SCPI module into smartCORE application
• SCPI : made start, stop and restart actions synchronous

Fixed

• Accelerometer : calculation for axes
• Accelerometer : removed debug logging
• batMON : writing historical data to temporary file
• batMON : processing recently recorded historical data only
• DBC : fixed automatic signal data type selection
• GPS : blocking in GPSD reconnect mechanism
• GPS : no direct reboot on broken GPSD connection
• ModBus : skipping RS485 configuration on generic serial port
• ModBus : fixed crash on RS485 configuration
• ModBus : fixed LSB address calculation
• ModBus : fixed crash upon invalid channel configuration
• ModBus : allowing for bitOffsets greater or equal 8
• ModBus : fixed return schema for probeChanel call interface
• ModBus : allowing for multi channel configurations based upon a single register
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : node and timestamp handling
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : crash on module destruction
• optiCLOUD : fixed naming issues within GPS location channel splitting
• optiCLOUD : fixed issues with invalid NaN and Inf representations within JSON payloads
• optiCLOUD : fixed invalid timestamp formatting leading up to connection losses
• optiCLOUD : fixed value to string conversion
• optiCLOUD : removed totally enqueued message size limit
• playback : allowing for empty string production
• smartIO MVB : fixed MVB port filtering wrt message data, single events and group events
• smartIO MVB : ignoring slave timeouts for single, group and general events
• smartIO MVB : interface to MVB messages module
• SCPI : missing error reporting on failed restart

[2.5] - 2023-06-29

Added

• Accelerometer : NEW module
• CAN-Bus : support for up to four CAN-Bus interfaces
• Event Counter : NEW module
• GPS : NEW config parameter posFixModeStabilizationTimeMs
• HTTP : NEW module
• OPC/UA Client (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• OPC/UA Server (PREVIEW) : NEW module (PREVIEW)
• optiCLOUD : NEW MQTT client timing and message amount config parameters
• optiCLOUD : NEW typical config examples
• optiCLOUD : NEW configuration option trustStore
• OSF Writer : NEW support for equidistant channels
• playback : NEW simulation module
• rawplayback : NEW simulation module
• smartIO HP : NEW module
• SMS : NEW module

Changed

• NEW combined data reduction filter
• ModBus : ModBus RTU reconnect on read error
• optiCLOUD : requesting initial shared attribute values by default
• optiCLOUD : creating shared attribute channels in a persistent way allowing for multi-cloud support
• optiCLOUD : renamed configuration parameter pollingIntervalMs (ensuring compatibility)
• optiCLOUD : adjusted default broker address
• optiCLOUD : allowing for simple plain channel name specification

Fixed

• improved documentation
• batMON : flash parameter reproduction
• batMON : inoperative state upon failed firmware version query
• fmproducer : measurement restart crashes
• GPS : module shutdown issues
• ModBus : improved stability
• MVB : measurement restart crashes
• optiCLOUD : MQTT client construction
• optiCLOUD : shared attribute request mechanism
• optiCLOUD : error message on failed RPC topic subscription
• System Infos : reading combined CPU usage for all CPUs
• System Infos : CAN port naming issues

[2.4.1] - 2023-04-13

Added

• GPS : simple plausibility check of GPS speed over ground
• Odometer : NEW offset parameter

Changed

• GPS : GPSD reconnect tries and GPSD waiting timeout cycles
• GPS : Reporting first received GPS sentence
• GPS : Rebooting upon unsuccessful GPSD restart retry

Fixed

• GPS : GPSD waiting timeout upon reconnect
• Odometer : checksum calculation
• Odometer : issues with channel buffer size
• Odometer : cleaned up logging

[2.4] - 2023-03-16

Added

• CAN-Bus : call-interface function write for sending CAN messages
• DBC : NEW CAN multiplex support
• Geofencing : MD documentation
• Geofencing : polygon support
• GPS : location and status notifications (in case of a GPSD connection)
• Odometer : MD documentation
• optiCLOUD : logging MQTT build and runtime library information
• optiCLOUD : channel-specific parameter minimumSendIntervalMs
• optiCLOUD : channel for MQTT upstream traffic amount estimation
• optiCLOUD : logging first MQTT message transmission on reconnect and error
• OSF Writer : NEW refreshIntervalMs configuration parameter for consumer-based sample rewrite
• OSF Writer : channel for OSF data volume amount estimation
• SCPI : Added UPTIME:SET action
• smartIO MVB : configuration parameter programFileString for including base64 encoded FPGA programs
• smartIO MVB : configuration parameter logEnabled
• smartIO MVB : logging first MVB frame arrival upon connection and reconnection
• smartIO MVB : dispatching MVB function codes MVB MASTERSHIP (0x08), MVB GENERAL EVENT (0x09) and MVB DEVICE STATUS (0x0F)
• System Infos : channel for CPU load per thread information
• System Infos : channels for WWAN upstream and downstream traffic amount estimation
• Uptime : NEW call-interface function setCounter (used e.g. via SCPI action UPTIME:SET)

Changed

• batMON : running upon current flash parameters if invalid JSON configuration parameters are specified
• DBC : combined handling of channelPrefix and NEW namespace parameters
• fmproducer : combined handling of channelPrefix and NEW namespace parameters
• Geofencing : default location id value
• MVB : combined handling of channelPrefix and NEW namespace parameters
• Odometer : adjusted default channel names and naming parameters
• optiCLOUD : sending additional last consumed sample before value change when needed
• optiCLOUD : renamed configuration parameter reproductionTimeoutMs to refreshIntervalMs (ensuring compatibility)
• optiCLOUD : removed configuration parameter brokerClientId
• optiCLOUD : augmenting default clientId by instance index when multiple modules are instantiated
• OSF Writer : writing additional trusted sample before value change when needed
• SCPI : writing multi-sample OSF data blocks within SCPI Live View (reducing data amount)
• smartIO MVB : NEW enabling MVB port and message filtering when in dispatching mode
• smartIO MVB : deactivated via configuration options portFilterDisabled and messageFilterDisabled
• smartIO MVB : disabled additional module-specific MVB frame and error log, removing ancient log files
• Uptime : renamed configuration parameter counterChannel to outputChannel
• Uptime : removed configuration parameter counterVariable (now set to outputChannel name)

Fixed

• CAN-Bus : removed unneeded reproduction parameter from demo configurations
• DBC : improved performance
• Geofencing : checking for valid geofence id
• Geofencing : cleaned up logging
• GPS : GPSD server reconnect mechanism
• ModBus : Added slaveId parameter for readWriteSequence call-interface function
• Odometer : issues with channel namespace separator
• Odometer : module destruction issues
• Odometer : added missing data reduction
• optiCLOUD : fixed reconnect and connection loss detection issues
• optiCLOUD : refactored and simplified consumption mechanism internals
• optiCLOUD : refactored and simplified MQTT message transmission mechanism internals
• optiCLOUD : removed unneeded samplesPerConsume configuration parameter
• optiCLOUD : fixed send-on-change-only behavior
• optiCLOUD : renamed MQTT client logging category for easier identification
• optiCLOUD : fixed SSL server verification issues when RTC was unsynchronized initially
• optiCLOUD : fixed blocking issues within SSL verification
• optiCLOUD : improved robustness in subscribing shared attributes and RPC request topics
• OSF Writer : refactored and simplified consumption mechanism internals
• OSF Writer : fixed writing empty multi-sample OSF data blocks
• SCPI : interface unblocking upon unsuccessful statemachine transition
• SCPI : fixed SYSTEM:VERSION:MINOR query for patched versions
• smartIO MVB : NEW smartIO restarting behavior upon MVB End-Of-Stream
• smartIO MVB : NEW configuration parameter eosRestartTimeoutMs (default 60s)
• smartIO MVB : NEW restarting on connection loss ONLY
• smartIO MVB : improved smartIO MVB library logging behavior upon restart
• smartIO MVB : fixed log file splitting within module-specific logging mechanism
• smartIO MVB : fixed default log file prefix within module-specific logging mechanism
• smartIO MVB : removed artifical restriction on log file count within module-specific logging mechanism
• System Infos : fixed stability issues
• Uptime : refactored and simplified consumption mechanism internals
• Uptime : now using trigger channel timestampes for counter channel samples
• Uptime : ensuring compatibility with configuration parameter counterChannel

[2.3.1] - 2022-12-10

Added

• batMON : NEW support for firmwares sending delayed ACK CAN frames
• batMON : NEW voltageDropDelayTime config parameter (for FW>=2 and PIC FW>=2)
• batMON : NEW batMON status channel
• batMON : NEW call-interface for shutdown-locking (used e.g. with the SMS module)

Changed

• batMON : NEW shutdown procedure SYSTEM:POWER:HALT (for smartMINI and smartRAIL systems with DeviceManager >= 20.2)
• batMON : writing firmware versions to omVersions INI file
• batMON : setting smartIO batMON RTC only once (and optionally to 0ns since epoch when not synced)
• batMON : integrated shutdown extension mechanism into new shutdown-locking mechanis

Fixed

• batMON : behavior on short voltage drops
• batMON : using CAN timestamps for diagnostics channels
• batMON : shutdown time configuration now wrt the internal offset
• batMON : initialization of diagnostics channels
• batMON : CAN frame data formatting within diagnostics output (now HEX encoded)
• batMON : removed redundant shutdown intialization via CAN command

[2.3] - 2022-08-11

Added

• batMON : configuration error status channel
• CAN-Bus : sample config for writing raw CAN data byte arrays to OSF file
• Ecowitt : NEW module
• Geofencing : channel representing the geofencing config JSON object
• Geofencing : config attributes for radius scaling and offsetting
• GPS : NEW seemless migration mechanism from serail (aka legacy) GPS modules to gpsd backend based
• ModBus : option enableInternalDataReduction (default==false)
• ModBus : Workload channel
• OSF Writer : tag and namespacesep attributes within OSF header
• OSF Writer : shifting the last (aka ancient) sample for channels with no production and setting its timestamp as a channel attribute
• SCPI : Added version queries
• SCPI : Added TIMEOUT and TIMEOUT? actions and queries for the execution timeout
• SCPI : Added migration mechanism for internal and external device specific configurations
• SCPI : Added CONFIG:GET? and CONFIG:SET queries for the persistent configuration
• System Infos : NEW module for obtaining system information
• System Infos : Added Board temperature
• System Infos : Added Mobile network traffic information

Changed

• general : introduced standardized default channel names
• general : added English MD documentation files
• general : added configuration examples
• general : improved logging messages
• batMON : NEW aynchronous configuration mechanism
• fmproducer : simplified channel configuration utilizing default values
• fmproducer : Filter chain based data reduction
• Geofencing : checking for valid GPS signal
• Geofencing : adjusted default channel names and naming parameters
• MVB : simplified channel configuration utilizing default values
• MVB : Filter chain based data reduction
• optiCLOUD : timestamping of telemetry when clock is synced
• optiCLOUD : auto-splitting of GPS location channels
• optiCLOUD : case-insensitive channel name specification
• optiCLOUD : added ignore config option for excluding channels
• OSF Writer : implemented zero-parameter configuration
• OSF Writer : case-insensitive channel name specification
• System Infos : Filter chain based data reduction
• System Infos : using NTP UDP communication for checking the clock synchronization state (Yocto 4 only)
• System Infos : improved configuration examples within MD documentation files

Fixed

• general : configuration schemas
• fmproducer : Fixed LONG INT data extraction
• fmproducer : Support for key-independent messages
• Geofencing : added missing data reduction
• Geofencing : cleaned up metadata
• Geofencing : fixed spelling issues
• Geofencing : removed invalid trip types from ipd list
• Geofencing : cleaned up logging
• GPS : simplified GPS NMEA device configuration
• ModBus : Advanced ModBus Auto-Address improvements
• MVB : Fixed LONG INT data extraction
• optiCLOUD : Removed additional data reduction, fixing missing data transmission
• optiCLOUD : Fixed crash on invalid broker address
• optiCLOUD : Removed internal message queueing
• optiCLOUD : Fixed consumption mechanism on overflow
• OSF Writer : Fixed trusted sample consumption
• OSF Writer : Fixed process value (PV) handling
• OSF Writer : Fixed consumption mechanism on overflow
• OSF Writer : Renamed ancient utc parameter
• SCPI : Fixed compound statement execution behavior
• SCPI : Fixed start, stop and restart transitions (esp. on external configuration change)
• SCPI : Fixed CONFIG:SET behavior (esp. wrt. configuration overlays)
• Uptime : moved persisten file backup to external partition
• Uptime : Migrated counter channels to timeserieses

Deprecated

• notifier : DEPRECATED module
• candbc : DEPRECATED module (use canbus and dbc instead)

[2.2] - 2022-03-25

Added

• Module Change Logs
• NEW Versioning scheme : distinguishing between STABLE, UNSTABLE and EXPERIMENTAL releases
• batMON : Spike filter for Supply Voltage, Current and MOSFET Temperature
• SysInfos : NEW System Info module providing device specific information
• Module specific Change Logs
• SCPI : Queries for Documentation and Change Log retrieval

Fixed

• SCPI : IDN? query
• SCPI : enabled restart within Ready state
• calc, CAN DBC, DBC, smartCALC : potential memory leaks on data reduction filter destruction
• GPS : checking for valid altitude
• ModBus : module shutdown
• OSF writer : disabled writing invalid samples

Changed

• SCPI : disabled schema validation within CONFIG:SET action

[2.1] - 2022-03-10

Added

• Module documentation files (MD)
• OSF writer : including latest sample within every newly generated OSF file
• GPS : NMEA parser error reporting

Fixed

• smartmvb : default log file settings
• GPS : configuration and communication mechanisms
• GPS, optiCLOUD : lat/lon/alt precision within optiCLOUD dashboard transmission
• uptime counter : fixed crash on non-existing trigger channel
• optiCLOUD : Byte Array data transmission

Changed

• SCPI : Revision of SCPI interface (??? TODO: describe what is changed !!!)
• optiCLOUD : non-string data transmission to JSON standard

[0.174] - 2022-02-09

Changed

• SCPI : Revision of SCPI interface

[0.172] - 2022-02-03

Changed

• (classic) MVB : duagon D017M driver removed

[0.171] - 2022-02-01

Added

• Robust reading of configuration and DBC content (autom. removal of '\r')

Fixed:

• Bug fixes data reduction filter

[0.167] - 2022-01-31

Added

• candbc, dbc : advanced data reduction
• smartcalc : new calculation module

Changed:

ModBus : removal BEKO Log specific HW Init

[0.165] - 2022-01-07

Added

• batMON : Data
• gpsd : New gpsd client module
• Completion of Cmake support

[0.164] - 2021-12-17

Added

• GPS/SCPI: New diagnostic functions Location/Date and log outputs
• Geofencing: additional parameters

Changed:

• Serialbus: cleanup

Fixed:

• smartIO MVB module: Error corrections
• OSF_UDP_Streamer: bugfix
• Odometer: fixed parameter handling

[0.161] - 2021-12-15

Added

• Improvements in smartCORE log output
• Provision of GPS information
  • in the header section of OSF files
  • via the SCPI interface
  • via the smartCORE call interface

Fixed:

• opticloud plugin:
  • Bugfix regarding empty credentials for the dashboard

[0.157] - 2021-12-14

Added

• Provision SIM card number / mobile signal strength
• opticloud plugin:
  • Ability to use device specific credentials for dashboard
  • Use of device serial number as default credentials for dashboard

Changed:

• scpi plugin:
  • Rework

Fixed:

• opticloud plugin:

  • Reconnect mechanism
  • SSL server verification

• smartmvb plugin:

  • Bug fixing

[0.139] - 2021-10-21

Changed:

• smartmvb plugin:
  • Rework