Powervision Version 8 Release Notes

PowerVision 8.9 is a major release intended to introduce new functionality and architecture improvements to support further iterations of the platform. Most of the changes are related to the Powervision IDE, the embedded code remains relatively unchanged with the exception of new applications. The following is an overview of the changes in the PowerVision 8.9 release and bug fixes.  

Major Changes

• Software Upgrade to .NET 8 – With this latest release, we’ve migrated to .NET 8, which brings a host of improvements and enhancements, and we’ve seamlessly integrated .NET 8, so there’s no need for manual installations of the .NET runtime.
• Streamlined Spark Downloads – The Spark installation process has been simplified, and the PowerVision Display Firmware is now downloaded on-demand in PowerVision Studio.
• Enhanced Offline Experience – Working with PowerVision Studio offline was disabled in PowerVision 7.0. This has been re-enabled and enhanced in 8.9 ensuring that you can work seamlessly even when Internet access isn’t an option.

Minor Changes

• Improved Speed of Application Firmware Generation – Generating application firmware from PowerVision Studio now takes less time and the process can more reliably be canceled.
• Added a Third Amp Output to Media in PowerVision – The Media Action, “OutputOn”, now has three output options, whereas previous versions only listed two.
• Support USB Load Shedding for P70 Display – Fail-safe that shuts down the USB circuitry when temperatures reach a higher threshold.
• Support Short Circuit Protection for P70 Display – Fail-safe that turns off the GPS Antenna in the event of a short circuit.
• Integrated MRC Technology in the HD Radio Tuner– Skyworks’ MRC technology is a channel diversity algorithm that provides superior sound quality and enhances signal coverage and reception by combining signals from two antennas to yield maximal performance. Available on the Powerview U120 and U150 displays.
• Removed limit on maximum number of Non-volatile memory variables that can be created starting in 8.14.2.

New Features

• High Current PDM Application – A new Application has been added to PowerVision Studio to configure the High Current Power Distribution Module. Setup is very similar to the IX3212
  • 8.10.0 Adds Loss of Communication and Power On Reset features.
  • 8.11.0 Adds High Side Output and Sensor Supply support
• Street Maps Application - A new GPS mapping application has been added that integrates with our GPS map data platform to display street maps.
• JPG image compression for logo images starting in version 8.12.
• Wifi Connectivity for OTA on P70, U120, and U150 starting in 8.10.0

New Hardware Support

• High Current PDM
• U35 Round Color Display

Bug Fixes 8.14.6

• Fixed List Import/Export script function where Double & Float data types were truncated to 4 decimal digits.
• Fixed crash issue in scripting when Windows language is set to Turkish or other languages with special character sets and those characters are typed in the scripting window.
• Removed unnecessary .core log files from being generated each power cycle.

Bug Fixes 8.14.4

• Fixed DAB Radio feature 

Bug Fixes 8.14.2

• Enabled internal GPS receiver on the P70 display hardware.
• Various Spark provisioning bug fixes and improvements to support MFA (multi factor authentication).
• Various fixes on High Current PDM app.
• Fixed touch issues on Maps app.

Bug Fixes 8.12.0

• Fixed Widgets disappearing when partially off screen.
• Added U35 ambient light sensor support.
• Fixed P70 GPS Antenna thermal shutdown issue.
• Fixed custom Keyboard crashing when the "small keyboard" is deleted, dependency was removed.
• Fixed crash when opening a newer version config than current version of Powervision.
• Fixed bootloader rotation issues.
• Fixed blackout mode issue where keypad backlight was on during booting when it should be off.

Fixed map pinch/zoom location and crashing when changing visibility of widgets.

Bug Fixes 8.10.2

• Fixed PDM App position override and Position Hysteresis lists
• Fixed PV crash when navigating the apps list using up/down arrows
• Fixed PV crash when using the spy glass to find references to a string variable then selecting the reference.

Bug Fixes 8.10.0

• Powervision various GUI fixes.
• U35 image widget rendering fix.
• Fixed HCPDM app crash when analog inputs not configured.
• Fixed HCPDM analog input settings, changing one channel affects the others.
• Added missing HCPDM soft start messages
• Various Wifi and Ethernet connectivity fixes.
• Fixed intermittent Bluetooth startup issues
• Fixed Rotary Gauge tick marks not showing
• Fixed bootloader OTA buttons not rotating

Bug Fixes 8.9.4

• Fixed USB connectivity on the Grey harness that stopped working in 8.x. 

Bug Fixes 8.9.3

• Corrected issue reading hardware profile file which may affect Audio functionality.
• Corrected Power Management IC initialization which may cause random display lockup on a small percentage of displays.

Bug Fixes 8.9.0

• Fixed Calculation Event Overrun at Power-up introduced in version 7.x. This was due to starting the CCM app before the NVmgr app fully loaded the non-volatile memory tables, as a result timer variables would have a value of 0 at startup which caused events to fire repeatedly until the memory tables were fully loaded. 
• Fixed Large Image Partially Off-Screen Not Displaying.
• Fixed Angel Script compiler issue not recognizing user name folders with special characters in the name for example when using the Turkish character set.
• Fixed Failure to Display Analog Camera Feed with Multiple Camera Streams.
• Fixed Rotary Gauge tick mark text when different language is selected.
• Fixed Modbus TCP/IP retry hang-up on missed messages.
• Fixed simulation issue with curved bar gauges.