OpenEMS/openems: 2022.4.0

• Add Fronius PV Inverter (via Modbus/SunSpec) (#1749)
• Add Kostal PV Inverter (via Modbus/SunSpec) (#1767)
• Code clean-up and modernization for Java 11 (#1757)
  • Modernize code for features of Java 11; this is mainly applied by using the "Clean up..." feature of Eclipse IDE. The configuration XML file for "Clean up" can be found at /cnf/clean-up.xml
• Add compatibility with InfluxCloud and InfluxDB 2.0 (#1581, #1768, #1769)
  • Update InfluxDB Query Language to new Flux Language
  • Improve 'round by resolution' behaviour
  • Update to latest InfluxDB Client Java library (https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-java)
  • be aware that the configuration properties for Backend and Edge InfluxDB components was changed to reflect InfluxDB 2.0 terms

• Modbus/TCP: Add GridMode to Sum (#204) (#1748)
  • GridMode can now be read via Modbus Address 417.
  • Additionally:
    • Add new type enum16
    • Show text of Channels in Description
    • Improve texts for Channels
    • Fix calculation of GridMode when there is no ESS.
• Improve tutorial "Implementing a Device" (#1507)
• Controller IO HeatingElement: add cumulated active time (#1760)
  • Add cummulated time channels & update them depending on the current level. Use these channels in the UI history.
• Add translation for Excel Export (#1778)
  • Sinexcel Battery-Inverter: add debounce for channels (#1779)
  • This fixes read problems with Sinexcel Battery Inverters.
  • Also: move debounce feature from StateChannel to all BooleanChannels

• Required change for Fronius PV Inverter (via Modbus/SunSpec) (#1749)
  • AbstractOpenemsSunSpecComponent readNextBlock() function change to complete when all expected blocks have already been read.
• Odoo: store and authenticate username/email in lower case (#1750)
• Update Gradle v7.4.2 56adc1529055285696d88230e205c7d119229204 74720da61ea31937cabb7163c4085024f6f3d448
• FENECON Home Battery: add Component deactivate (#1766)
• Bugfix isProducer() method (#1770)
  • Fixes a bug that had been introduced by #1749
  • Under certain circumstances this bug would cause Production meters to be not displayed.
  • Thanks danielco for pointing it out in the OpenEMS Community forum: https://community.openems.io/t/trying-to-simulate-pv-production/838
• Gitpod live demo: fix branch name for odoo-openems (#1771)
  • _Gitpod is unfortunately broken right now because of some Odoo module incompatibility
• Fix SDM 630 modbus addresses for Reactive Power (#1772)
• FEMS-Backports for 2022.04 (#1773)
  • Bugfix for InfluxDB v2 implementation:
    • add missing runtime dependencies
    • use ThreadPool for InfluxDB batch writes
    • improve exception handling
  • Add continuous debug output to Ui.Websocket and Edge.Websocket
  • Add fallback for Resolution and Timezone for older UI versions
  • Improvement on Generic.Ess ErrorHandler
• Update core UI libraries (#1774)
  • Angular v13
  • Ionic v6
  • ...
  • Fix CI path to ng
• Improvements for Time-Of-Use Tariffs (#1776)
  • Change TimeOfUseTariff to never return null
  • Introduce TimeOfUsePrices.empty() instead
  • Adjust Controller to handle the changed logic
  • Awattar, Tibber, Corrently: throw Exception if HTTP GET result is empty
  • Update JUnit tests to reflect new Exception handling
• UI: fix not displayed meters (#1780)
  • Fixed not displayed meters and wrong displaying of labels in history/consumptionchartOverview

Thanks @DerWahreKlinki, @huseyinsaht, @mlang97, @sebastianasen, @lukasrgr, @venu-sagar, Michael Grill, @janseidemann for contributing to this Release!