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Version: 1.7

Starlink

Sensa reads your Starlink dish directly, so you can see whether it is online and how well, restart it, and put it to sleep overnight to save power.

How it connects​

Sensa talks to the dish over your van's network, at the dish's own fixed management address. No login is needed.

Add to Sensa Nomad​

Open Settings, choose the Devices tab, tick it under Discovered and press Add Selected Devices. If it is not there yet, press Scan.

See Adding devices for more.

What you see​

  • The Network tab on the Habitation dashboard shows the dish with its status, Restart, its power button and its sleep window. Tap it for readings such as latency, download and upload speed, obstruction and power draw. See Satellite internet.
  • Stow dish, on a motorised dish, folds it flat for travel.
  • The Cab dashboard's Internet tab scores the connection, so you can judge a parkup before you settle.
  • Show Power In Header, on the cog of the dish's row in Settings, puts its live draw in the header bar.

Good to know​

  • Snow melt, levelling, update deferral and the dish's restart hour are changed in the Starlink app, not in Sensa. The dish refuses those changes from anything on your van's network.
  • If the dish is your van's only network, switching it off switches Sensa's network off too. See Network planning.
  • Only the Starlink Mini has been tested on our bench. Other dishes show the Unverified label but work as far as the dish allows.