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Nomad 1.5 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Applies to: Nomad Release Track: Stable Version: 1.5 Requires action: No

Summary​

Talk to your van with a Home Assistant Voice device, see how far you are leaning on a rough track, and put your tabs in the order you want.

Voice control​

On Nomad Pro and above, add a Home Assistant Voice device and you can run the van by speaking: "turn on the awning light", "what is the fresh water level?", "sleep mode". It uses the names you already see on screen, and nothing you say leaves the van, so it works in a field with no signal.

It needs the internet once, the first time you add the device. See Voice control for what you can say.

With a Voice device fitted, alarms are spoken in its own voice too, so you hear them even with no connection.

How far you are leaning​

With a Van Level fitted, every Cab Home screen now shows how far the van is leaning to one side, and a new Roll tab shows it across the whole screen, big enough to read while you drive an off-camber track. It turns amber as you near your limit and red when you reach it.

You set the limit yourself: Maximum roll angle on the Settings Vehicle tab, 25° to start with.

While the Drive scene is on, the reading updates twice a second. That needs the latest Van Level firmware; an older unit updates it every 30 seconds.

Your tabs, your order​

Press and hold a tab until it lifts, drag it along the strip, and let go. With a mouse, press and move. The order is kept on your system, so every screen showing that dashboard matches, and it survives restarts and updates.

Smaller changes​

  • Fewer false Not Configured labels. On the Devices tab, the red label now only appears when a device is missing something it cannot work without, such as a router's login. A blank optional setting no longer brings it up.