Nymea 1.2 release notes

Hello folks. 1.2 is out now!

This release focused mostly on plugins to extend the range of supported devices. Of course the usual amount of fixes across the entire platform is included too.

The generic ZigBee plugin now supports fire/smoke, temperature, water, humidity and light/illuminance sensors. That means, all such sensors of these type out there following the ZigBee Cluster specificiation will be supported now. In addition to that, we’ve also added vendor specific tweaks for those made by Develco. Develco produces high quality ZigBee devices but doesn’t directly sell them to end user, but instead they are white labelled and sold with different names, such as frient or Gewiss. While they do follow the ZigBee specification and would work with the generic plugin already, they often have additional features (or pack multiple functions on one device) which are also supported by the zigbee-develco plugin. Also, the Ikea shortcut button was added.

There is a new plugin named bimmer_connected. This allows adding Bimmers (BMW cars) to nymea by using an unofficial library to connect to the BMW connect API.

The Keba plugin now also properly supports the “German edition” of their wallbox.

The Somfy Tahoma plugin was reworked entirely to not use their cloud API any more but instead connect to the Tahoma gateway locally. This improves the overall feel of the plugin a lot and gets away with hitting polling rate limits on their API servers. Thanks to Somfy for introducing this new offline API on their gateways! (Note that this API is currently available as a developer preview and needs to explicitly enabled by the user.)

In good news for guerilla solar plant users, nymea now supports the first Micro Inverter, the Bosswerk MI-300/600. This device seems to run the same software as the Omnik, Ginlong and Hosola inverters and thus this plugin may also work with them. However, we didn’t have any chance to test that. If you own one of those devices we’d appreciate any feedback whether it’s working with them too or not.

Here’s a screenshot of the energy dashboard with a Shelly 3EM as root meter and the Bosswerk MI-300 installed on the balcony:

Another energy related addition is the new Stiebel-Eltron plugin for heat pumps.

In other news, mainly for developers, nymea-mqtt now supports WebSocket transports, on both, server and client ends, as well as the standalone nymea-mqtt-server and nymea-mqtt-client programs have been extended to feature completeness. In combination with nymea:app’s sigv4utils, this can now be used to connect to the AWS IoT core broker over WebSockets too (previously only certificated based MQTT-TCP connections were supported).

nymea:core received one noticeable feature: The debug interface was extended to not only allow enabling/disabling certain debug categories, but instead allow a fine grained control (debug/info/warning/critical) for each category.

Enjoy the release!

The full changelog:

  • nymea-app (1.2.0)

    • Allow more customization of the main menu in overlays
    • Hide user settings on system with push button auth
    • Automatically turn lights on/off when brightness moves from/to 0
    • Fix for some light controls being invisible after entering details view
    • Hide battery stats when there are no energy storages installed
    • Fix power balance stats tooltops sometimes not being initialized properly
  • nymea (1.2.0)

    • Fix filters generating wrong data types
    • Allow configuring warning/info/debug logging levels
    • Fix allowedValues for battery interface
    • Explicitly destroy experiences
    • Add alarm and firesensor interfaces
    • Fix Things filter by param method
    • Print a better warning when setStateValue() is called with a wrong
    • Properly use pkgconfig to find nymea-mqtt
    • Provide access to the network device discovery cache
  • nymea-plugins (1.2.0)

    • TcpCommander: Add TCP server broadcast functionality
    • NetworkDetector: Make use of the internal network device monitor
    • New Plugin: Bimmer connected
    • Fix dpkg Priority field
    • Kodi: Use nymea icon for notifications and make notifications
    • System monitor: Disable unneeded caching of monitor states
    • Keba : Add support for wallboxes without energy meter (German edition)
    • somfytahoma: Use local connection “Somfy Developer Mode”
    • Keba: Use network device monitor as IP source
    • Tado: Fix encoding in login url
    • New Plugin: Bosswerk micro inverters
    • MyStrom: Fix a memory leak
    • Sunposition: Bump numpy from 1.19.1 to 1.21.0
  • nymea-plugins-zigbee (1.2.0)

    • Don’t use withOnOff when setting brightness
    • New Plugin: Gewiss
    • Generic: Add fire sensor support
    • Generic: Add support for temperature sensors
    • Develco: Add smoke, water, motion and door sensor device support
    • Generic: Add support for Water, humidity and illuminance sensors
    • Tradfri: Add shortcut button
    • Tuya: Fix handleNode grabbing too much
  • nymea-zigbee (1.2.0)

    • Add Battery Alarm State support to PowerConfiguration cluster
    • Add IAS WD cluster
    • Fix a typo in the illuminancemeasurement cluster
    • Fix a debug message
    • Explicitly stop the ZCL timeout timer
    • Make NXP update provider independent from the chip module type
  • nymea-mqtt (1.2.0)

    • Add support for websocket connections
  • nymea-remoteproxy (1.2.0)

    • Add support for local socket connetions
  • nymea-plugins-simulation (1.2.0)

    • Fingerprint simulation: Fix a crash when username is empty
  • nymea-plugins-modbus (1.2.0)

    • Huawei: Update state cache behaviour
    • New plugin: Stiebel Eltron heatpumps
    • Restructure modbus connection tool
    • Introduce libnymea-modbus
    • Update plugins to new libnymea-modbus and autogenerate connection
    • Update overall modbus reply handling in generated classes and source
  • nymea-experience-plugin-energy (1.2.0)

    • Fix energy logs sometimes resetting to 0 on reboots
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according to Nymea 1.2.0 documentation Bosswerk MI600 Micro Inverter ist supported. I’m running Nymea Version 1.3.0, but can’t find it, when I try to add new things. It’s not showing up in the list of supported devices.

Hey. The plugin may not be installed by default. Go to system settings, software updates and then on add/remove software. Then search for Bosswerk and install it.

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Hello Michael,
first of all: Wow, that was a fast response, thank you I found both Bosswerk plugins and installed it. Now it can be selected to search for new things. But my MI-600 ist not found, though it is in the same network. Is there any documentation available how to connect? Additionally it would bei probably more useful for the users, if they get a list of all possible things to connect, even if the plugin ist not installed.

Hmm. So far I could only test the plugin with my MI-300. While it should also work with the MI-600, there may be a bug in the discovery.

Can you please enable the Bosswerk debug output (system settings, developer options, debug interface. Then in the logs tab on the web interface).
Once enabled, try to add it again and then grab the debug output and send it to me. I’ll look into it.

For the plugin installation, yes, we’re aware that it’s not really great as it is right now to find additional plugins and will improve the situation eventually. probably via an initial setup wizard that will guide the user through the additional plugins repository somehow

Actually, please also enable the NetworkDiscovery debug logs. My guess is that the hostname resolution doesn’t work properly in your network…