A minor but useful change. From now on, links to configuration help for NAM will appear. Currently, this is represented by a compass symbol, which leads to pages with a brief description. For example, like this one.
Why a compass? Because the icons used by NAMF are based on symbols available in Unicode. And somehow, I couldn’t find a better one. There’s a nice question mark, but white on white is not great, and red doesn’t quite fit.
Help is based on a system of pages that are generated along with the code on GitHub. The advantage is the simplicity of the whole system, and the structure allows for maintaining different language versions. For now, it’s just the structure; I still need to work on the translations (and expanding the list of topics) 🙂
The downside is that since the help files are on GitHub, internet access is required. When configuring NAM for the first time and connected to the AP in NAM, there usually isn’t network access, but this depends on the phone’s settings.
And yes, there will soon be an rc8 version, because I was convinced that rc7 included all the necessary translations/labels for languages, but it didn’t, so rc8 is coming soon. Based on this, there will likely be a stable version.
Other changes – the implementation of the BH1750 light sensor has been completed.
What next?
The next versions will have slightly different numbering. Since there is currently only one line of software, the year 2020 will be dropped from the version number. Thus, after NAMF-2020-46, the next version will be NAMF-47.
Version 47 will primarily focus on completing the ESP32 version with LoRa (and possibly Ethernet, but that’s not the main goal). As for sensors, the initial tests of the Winsen ZE25A are very promising, so I plan to add support for this O3 sensor to NAM.
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