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Nomad 1.6 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Applies to: Nomad Release Track: Stable Version: 1.6 Requires action: No

Summary​

A simpler Network tab, an alarm if the van is driven off while you are away, your diesel heater on screen, and a Design Mode so the screens only move when you mean them to.

A Network tab you can read at a glance​

The Network tab on the Habitation dashboard is now one card: Online or Offline, which connection you are on, how good it is, and how many devices are connected. Your router and Starlink dish sit beneath it, each with Restart and a power button. Restart asks twice, so a stray tap does nothing.

Order of use lists your internet connections in the order the router tries them, for example Starlink, then the SIM, then campsite Wi-Fi. Drag one up or down and the router uses the new order straight away.

Turn on Nerd Mode on a tablet and the tab becomes a diagram of your whole network. See Your van's network.

Set the dish to turn itself off for part of every day, overnight for example, by picking when it Starts at and Ends at. It is on the dish's box on the Network card.

An alarm if the van moves​

A new Geofence instinct raises a red Van moved alarm if the van goes further than you allow from where it was parked when you turned on Sentry. It uses the van's own GPS, so it keeps watching with no signal. The Habitation Security tab shows the van on a map with the circle round it.

You need a GPS in the van, such as a Teltonika router. Set the size of the circle in the instinct's settings; it starts at 200 m. See Security instincts.

Your heater on the Climate tab​

With a Sensa heater controller fitted, your Autoterm Air 2D, Air 4D or Flow 5D gets its own card at the top of the Climate tab, with a dial to set how warm you want it.

On the Air you can choose which thermometer it aims for, so it can keep the bedroom warm rather than the spot by its wall panel. On the Flow, Run for switches it off after the hours you pick. See Heating.

Design Mode​

Moving things around the screens now happens only in Design Mode, so nothing shifts under a stray finger. Tap the pencil-and-ruler button beside the glasses in the header, and everything you can move shows an outline. Drag cards, tabs and scenes where you want them, then turn it off.

The one exception is Order of use on the Network tab, which still drags any time, because it is a setting for your router rather than a layout. See Design Mode.

Smaller changes​

  • More behind Admin Lock. With Admin Lock on, the router and dish Power, Restart and Sleep controls, the van level's Reset Offsets and Calibrate, and turning on Design Mode all ask for the Settings PIN. Each one has an amber outline, so you know before you press it.
  • The glasses button has moved to just right of the Sensa logo.