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greenMonitor™ Version 2.04 Roadmap
The 2.04 release includes additional support for wind turbines, environmental sensing devices and enhanced database access.
Product Change Notice
The following product-level changes are due to be made with Version 3.01, which is scheduled for the first quarter of 2012.
Command Line Interfaces
Commands which have been integrated into gmServer or gmConsole will be removed from the product. Commands whose functionality is better handled through the web interface may be removed if the advantage of using the web interface is significantly greater than using the command line interface.
The commands which have been identified for removal include:
| Name | Description | Reason for Removal |
|---|---|---|
| gmForecast | Create a day-ahead forecast for system load and production | The "Forecast" tab on the web interface creates an easily viewable spreadsheet containing the same information. |
| gmMerge | Combine multiple Mate data streams into a single stream | The gmMerge command has been obsoleted by the ability to monitor multiple systems directly. |
| gmRemote | Create files compatible with the "remote files" feature of WattPlot | The large number of devices and capabilities which are not present in WattPlot from Intallact has reduced the usefulness of this command. |
| gmStatistics | Track statistical load and production data. | The functionality of gmStatistics has been integrated into the gmServer command and gmServer is better suited to tracking that data. |
MySQL Database
The simplified MySQL database interface which was added for Version 1.00.9 has been replaced with a new MySQL database.
System Passwords
greenMonitor software versions prior to 2.01 supported a 4 digit "PIN" for use as a password. This was replaced with a user name and password mechanism in Version 2.01. Effective with Version 3.01, the 4 digit "PIN" will only be available on the "Basic" license levels, but will eventually be removed from all license levels.
| Version 2.04.00 General Release | ||
|---|---|---|
| System setting commands | Enable TPS Mate setting changes in preparation for the Mate 3. | Deferred - late Mate 3 firmware. |
| Add time-of-day selling and charging to gmManage. | Add code which can manage selling and charging to specific times of day. Customer requirement. | Deferred to future release. |
| Add support for wind power curves for turbines. | Add code which calculates the statistical power output for a turbine based on wind speed as well as time of day. Time of day is included for those turbines which include some amount of PV production, such as the Bergey turbine controllers. | Shipped. |
| Add user-configured preferences / web server skins. | Further work on browser customization and skins editing. | Shipped. |
| Add long-term historical wind speed data. | Add additional code so that the average wind speed information associated with a charge controller can be determined from gmReport and other sources. The average wind speed data must include the ability to calculate daily, monthly and yearly average speeds. | Shipped. |
| Modify gmInitFile to be more adaptive | Add code so that gmInitFile will switch from network to direct file mode if a named system is local and the server port cannot be opened. | Shipped. |
| Add Modbus option to gmServer connection type menu | Add an option to the "Type" menu for gmServer so that a user can specifiy a Modbus connection for all of the devices. | Moved to 2.04.01 |
| Add "Save" menu option to gmLink. | Add an option to gmLink allowing it to create a new Systems/ directory entry for a named system. | Shipped. |
| Add support for greenSensor box. | Add device driver support for the new greenSensor residential system sensor product. Initial support will be for greenMonitor Lite products as an optional daughter board. | Shipped. |
| Add "Cc" option to "From" address for notifications. | Add an option to the notifications information so that the "From" address can be included as a carbon copy for all e-mail alerts. This will not apply to SMS / pager messages. | Moved to 2.04.01 |
| Add MySQL enablement. | Add a loadable database driver with MySQL support. This is a Version 3.01 requirement for full LAMP support. | Shipped. |
| Add option to hide device from "Viewer" users | Add an option so that a device can be hidden from display by a user with "Viewer" level authority. | Moved to 2.04.01 |
| Support listening to multiple Mate 3 ports | Allow the gmConsole command to listen on more than one UDP port for OutBack Power Technologies Mate 3 data streams. This is required so that devices which share an IP address through a NAT'ing router can be supported. | Shipped. |
| Add "Notification" enablement on "Notification" page | Add the ability to enable or disable notifications from the notifications web page. This is required to continue phase-out of gmConfigure command. | Shipped. |
| Version 2.04 Update 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Add examples to all commands. | Update the HTML documentation for all of the commands which can be executed from the "Host" pulldown menu in gmServer. These examples should show, at a minimum, the parameters which are used by gmServer. | Plan committed. |
| Add option to hide device from "Viewer" users | Add an option to each device which specifies the lowest authority level which can view a device via the web interface. The default will be "Viewer", which will allow "Viewer" level users to see the device. This is required for Kiosk product support. | Plan committed. |
| Add code to display, then reset, inverter lifetime maximum values. | Add display fields, with buttons associated with them, for resetting the "lifetime" maximum inverter values. System serviceability requirement. | Plan committed. |
| Add per-command parameters to INI file. | Add the ability for commands to query the INI file to find their per-command default parameters. This will be enablement for future 2.04 and 3.01 releases, which will further expand their use. | Plan committed. |
| Daily report generation | Add an option which runs gmReport on a daily basis, and stores the files in the /user folder. | Plan committed. |
| System setting commands | Enable TPS Mate setting changes in preparation for the Mate 3 supporting some manner of remote programming. This is an enabling item and will only cover those settings which the TPS Mate supports and the commands methods needed for them. | Plan committed. |
| WattPlot Migration | Improve documentation to enable WattPlot users to migrate to the greenMonitor product, or to run parallel operations, with greenMonitor providing Mate access. | Plan committed. |