Dashboards

Sensa organises everything your van can do into a handful of dashboards. Each dashboard is a full screen built for one job, so you are never hunting through a single long page.

The five dashboards

• Habitation. Your main living-space hub: power, batteries, water and waste tanks, lighting, heating and air conditioning. Its Home tab also carries the controls worth having one tap away, the inverter mode and the trickle charger. On a Dometic FreshJet the air-conditioner card also carries Interior and Roof buttons for the unit's own lights, on the Climate tab and on the Home summary alike; a button appears only when the unit reports that light. Its Switches tab carries your relay controllers and, if you have a managed network switch, its Ethernet ports. Its Network tab shows your router and, if you have one, your Starlink dish. A Crypto tab appears when you add a Bitcoin miner, and a DJI tab when you add a DJI Power station, which is shown as the portable unit it is rather than as part of the van's own power system. Its Home tab can be laid out in more than one way, see Home layouts.
• Cab. The driving and park-up screen. Its Home tab pairs your engine dials with the navigation map, and the map takes the full height of the screen; with no engine adapter fitted the map takes the full width too. The levelling guide (a top-down and a side or rear view to help you get level) has its own tabs, alongside a park-up view pairing the level with the signal you can expect there. Everything that changes what the map shows sits in the buttons around it: who is driving, what to look for, and which map to use. See Navigation and tracking. Add a camera and a Dump tab appears: a live picture of the drain from the driving seat, with the dump valve button on it. See Dump camera.
• Mobile. A condensed view designed for a phone. It uses a tab bar along the bottom so everything is in reach of your thumb. Its Navigation screen is now the same screen as the Cab map rather than a reduced copy of it, which matters if your phone is your only cab screen.
• Intelligence. Alarms, scenes, instincts, routines, a message log and, when your system knows where it is, the Schengen day counter. See Intelligence.
• Settings. Where you configure the system: your devices, network, switches, images, backups and system details, plus People and the Vehicle tab for your van's size, fuel and journey tracking. Its own Log tab is where the system reports on itself, separately from the van's Log on Intelligence. Its Diagnostics tab holds your licence, the file check, the analytics switches and how long logs are kept. On a unit we supplied, its System tab is where the unit itself is looked after: passwords, updates, remote access, restart and Factory Reset. The same tab has an Experimental devices switch, which lets Sensa find devices we are still testing; leave it off unless we ask you to turn it on.

Moving between dashboards

Every dashboard has a menu button (the three-line icon) at the top left, next to the Sensa logo. Tap it to jump to any of the other dashboards, or to log out.

Which dashboards you see depends on how you signed in. Everyday tablet logins see Habitation, Cab, Mobile and Intelligence. On a unit we supplied they also see Settings, which asks for a PIN first if you have switched Admin Lock on. See Accounts and access for who can do what.

Temperatures

Temperatures are always shown in the unit your system is set to (for example °C), no matter what a particular sensor reports in. You can change the unit in Settings, under System.

The header bar across every dashboard can carry a temperature reading beside the scene chip, and you choose which. Open Settings, choose the Devices tab, expand a temperature sensor and switch on Show Temperature In Header. Nothing is shown until you pick one, so choose however many fit your screen. The Climate tab shows every temperature whatever you pick here.