Nomad 1.4 Release

Applies to: Nomad Release Track: Stable Version: 1.4 Requires action: No

Summary

Tyre pressure on the Cab screen, a History tab that looks back over a season, and Nerd Mode, one button that keeps the technical detail out of the way until you want it. Routines can now do several things at once and start a scene. Three new devices, a light theme, and a handful of settings that forgot themselves after a restart now remember.

Tyre pressure

Add Bluetooth tyre pressure sensors and a Tyres tab appears on the Cab dashboard, with every wheel laid out on a top-down view of the van. Each shows its pressure, its temperature, how long ago it last reported, and a warning when its battery is getting low.

No sensor knows which wheel it is on, so you tell Sensa once, from the dropdowns under the van. After that, a new Tyre pressure instinct raises an alarm naming the wheel when a tyre goes soft or is over-inflated. Set your own range on the Instincts tab.

Sensors that sleep while you are parked keep their last reading and say how old it is, so a quiet tile is not a fault.

History

A new History tab on Habitation shows how much energy you have used and made, by the day and by the month: what the van drew, what went in and out of the battery, and what came from solar, a hook-up and the engine. There is a chart of how hard your battery has been worked, and a graph of any reading you like, going back a year.

It all stays on your own system. Totals start building from the day you install this release, rather than reaching back.

Nerd Mode

A glasses button now sits in the header, just left of the clock. Off, each screen keeps to what you would act on. On, the extra readings appear, along with the History tab and the Diagnostics and Log tabs on Settings.

If you are looking for those two tabs and they have gone, this is why: press the glasses. It only changes what you see; nothing about the van behaves differently.

Routines do more

A routine can now do several things, one after another, and one of them can be a scene. Pick a heater or an air conditioner and you choose from the modes that unit actually has, with a temperature alongside, rather than working it out yourself.

New devices

• Sensa Van Level 6, the Wi-Fi version of the Van Level Pro 6, for when a network cable will not reach.
• Shelly Pro 4PM, a four-circuit mains relay that shows what each circuit is drawing. A new Circuit fault instinct tells you which circuit is overheating or overloading.
• Shelly Plus Smoke, shown on the Security tab. It sounds its own siren as before; Sensa does not add an alarm of its own yet.

Settings that forgot themselves

After a restart or an update, journey tracking could come back switched off, and a GPS source you had pinned to someone's phone could slip back to Auto. Both now stay as you left them.

A van level you had just added showed nothing until the system was restarted. It now works straight away.

On the Cab Home screen, choosing Left, Middle or Right for a device had quietly stopped doing anything. It works again.

Smaller changes

• Device settings open in a popup. On the Devices tab, tap the cog at the end of a row rather than expanding it.
• A padlock on dial cards. Lock the air conditioner card, or the climate summary on Home, so a finger scrolling past cannot change a setting by accident.
• Sensa Light, a theme for anyone who prefers white screens. Whatever theme you choose now reaches every login.
• Your licence has moved to the System tab in Settings, with Check in now beside it.
• Update now takes everything. Once Sensa itself is up to date, the same press installs any waiting updates for your equipment, one at a time, showing which one it is on.
• The Log says why your system restarted, such as an update or a restart from Settings. If nothing asked for it, it says that too.
• Shorter names in the header. Give a device a Header Short Name so more readings fit across the bar.
• Fridge and freezer watch now speak up after ten minutes too warm, not fifteen.