Next week (16-20.06) Nettigo will be closed. We won’t be sending orders. We should answer to email inquiries, but it will be slower than normal.
On Monday, 23rd Jun we will be back and start processing orders in order which they were placed and paid.
In Poland in the begin of May most of us take short vacations. This year this will have much more impact on our work schedule. The last day we work normally is Tuesday 29th Apr. Maybe on Wednesday morning we will be able to pack and send some orders, but it is not guaranteed, so don’t relay on that.
We will be back in work on Friday, May 9th – we will start sending orders from whole week in order they were placed & paid.
Today the binaries for the NAMF-47rc2 version (of course – in the beta update channel) hit the server. It brings quite significant new features. The first, which will be appreciated especially by those who have recuperation in their homes.
If you equip your NAM with the SDS011 restarter, then in the SDS configuration you can set the alarm to go off at a preset PM2.5 or PM10 value.
Then pin 7 (the one closest to the LED and SDS connector) will be set to high (3.3V) when alert value has been exceed. Remember that PCF used in restarter can drive only 400 µA in high state, so You need to use some transistor to drive any load.
If you have mechanical ventilation in the house, you can thus receive information about the need to turn it off when the air is of poor quality. Output this signal to the outside (don’t forget to also “take” GND from the EXT connector or any of the HX connectors) and you can control the device.
You can achieve a similar solution using home automation (whether Home Assistant or Domoticz), there are also ready-made commercial solutions. Here the advantage is simplicity – if you don’t have HA/Domoticz this will also work. Since it works locally, it doesn’t require access to the cloud as some of the solutions you’ll encounter from competitors have.
The NAM 0.4 kit, expected by some for a long time, has finally appeared – based on ESP32 and running on LoRaWAN. The kit is still in beta, but if anyone is strongly interested in testing – you are welcome. The NAMF-47rc2 version already allows you to use LoRaWAN – you just need to be in range of The Things Network. The other good news about TTN is that besides being in range you don’t need additional infrastructure – Tomek Rękawek, the author of aqi.eco has added an integration that allows you to send data from TTN to aqi.eco! But about the details, I will write on the Starter Kit, describing the configuration. For now, soldering instructions for the NAM 0.4 kit are available.
The next big news is support for DNMS! Digital Noise Measurement Sensor is, as the name suggests, a sensor that measures noise intensity. Well, and since version 47rc2 it is already supported by NAM.
To top it off – any day now a soldering kit will be on sale in our shop, which will allow you to build such a sensor
This year we all go for a short winter holiday, so, from Feb 10th to Feb 14th orders won’t be processed. We will try to reply to emails, but expect delays.
All order will be processed in order they were placed/paid, starting from Monday, Feb 17th.
As for Wednesday (8.01) orders processing has been resumed. Until end of this week all delayed orders should be sent.
January, the weather is what it is, and unfortunately, we’ve been hit with a bad cold. Since there aren’t many of us, it has caused some issues with processing orders. Today (Tuesday, January 7th), no one will be able to prepare orders for shipping. I hope we’ll manage to send out at least some orders tomorrow, but after the extended weekend, there are quite a few to handle.
I apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, this is the flip side of being a small business – it makes us flexible and able to adapt to our clients’ needs, but in situations like this, it’s hard to keep things running smoothly.
We’re taking care of ourselves and hope everything will get back to normal in a few days.
We wish all our clients, colleagues and friends a healthy, peaceful Christmas! May this holiday be an opportunity for all of us to become better people.
The special days of this season are just around the corner. Here’s how our schedule looks this year:
Some time ago there was NAMF-2020-46 stable release. Here are some info about changes:
There are also some bugs fixed (like not working user/password when sending data InfluxDB)
Two days ago there was release NAMF-2020-46a with one bugfix – there was additional parenthesis marks in Prometheus metrics endpoint. With 46a that was removed, Prometheus endpoint now should work OK.
Next stable release will have a bit different naming scheme – no 2020 in it so it will be just NAMF-47.
We have updated product pages for Olimex ESP32-POE modules. Both with ESP32-POE and PCB antenna and ESP32-POE-EA with external antenna.
They are now being sold at least in L (or later) revision. That means a bit bigger (longer) PCB and mounting holes on PCB.
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.
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.
