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Nomad 1.7 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Applies to: Nomad Release Track: Stable Version: 1.7 Requires action: No

Summary​

Set one temperature and let the van hold it, the Autoterm Baltica on screen, frost protection that works even with Sensa off, and a count of how many days of diesel you have left.

SensaClimate: one temperature for the whole van​

Set the temperature you want, and Sensa decides when to heat, when to cool and which unit to use, from up to three heaters and an air conditioner. A Climate Control card leads the Habitation Climate tab, with a power button and a dial, and names the unit doing the work while it heats or cools.

A new SensaClimate tab on the Habitation dashboard is where you pick the sensor, the heaters and the air conditioner. It draws it all as a diagram, and each part has an (i) button explaining exactly how it behaves. On shore power, or on a well-charged battery on a mild day, an air conditioner that can heat does the heating instead of your diesel heater. It can also raise an alarm, which reaches your phone, if the van is not getting any closer to your temperature or a heater's diesel is running low.

SensaClimate comes with Nomad Pro and above. See SensaClimate.

The Autoterm Baltica​

With a Sensa heater controller fitted, the Baltica gets its own card on the Climate tab. Two buttons choose Hot water or Water+Heat, and you can change between them while it is running. On Water+Heat the dial sets the room temperature you want and Sensa acts as the room thermostat. See Autoterm Baltica.

Frost Protection​

An Autoterm Air or Baltica can now keep the van from freezing on its own, even while your Sensa unit is off or restarting. Pick a temperature from 3 to 10 °C under Frost Protection on the heater's row in Settings, on the Devices tab. Below it, the heater starts; 3 °C warmer, it stops. It starts Off, so nothing changes until you choose. See Frost Protection.

The setting appears once your heater controller has had its latest update.

How much diesel, and how long it lasts​

Every Autoterm heater card now shows how much diesel it is burning an hour and its average per day over the last week. The SensaClimate tab adds Diesel left: how many days your diesel lasts at the rate all your heaters are using it.

An Air needs its Heater Model set on its row in Settings before it can show these figures. See How much diesel it is using.

Mopeka tank sensors​

Sensa now reads Mopeka sensors, which stick under a gas bottle or tank, through a Sensa Bluetooth Proxy. Tell it what the tank holds and its shape, and the level appears as a dial on the Home screen. See Mopeka tank sensors.

Is your router ready?​

On your Teltonika router's row in Settings, Configure Router for Sensa Nomad reads the router and shows how ready it is for a Sensa van, as a percentage, with a plain sentence for each thing that would change. It only looks: nothing on your router is changed. See Your van's network.

SOS and Panic​

Two new red scenes, SOS and Panic. They start empty, so add whatever you want them to do, such as every light on. To set one off, press and hold until the button fills, so a pocket or an elbow cannot do it by accident. See Scenes.

Smaller changes​

  • Run for on every heater. The Air, Flow and Baltica can all switch themselves off after a set time, now from 1 hour up to 24.
  • A temperature probe wired to a heater can be picked anywhere you choose a temperature sensor.
  • Home is arranged like any other tab. Both Home screens are rearranged in Design Mode, and Reset puts them back. If you had picked Split View, Home starts again from Power Central.
  • Cards grow and shrink with the space you give them in Design Mode, so a card made larger shows everything on it larger.
  • Data usage, a new tab in Settings, shows how much internet data your unit has used in the last 24 hours and 30 days.
  • Sensa device updates. Relay controllers, Bluetooth proxies, Van Levels and the rest update from your Sensa unit over the van's own network, each with its own Automatic updates switch on the Settings System tab.
  • A fairer Starlink score. The Cab Internet tab no longer marks a working connection down because of how much sky the dish has seen blocked in the past.
  • More Shelly relays. The single-channel Shelly 1 and 1PM relays, Gen3 and Gen4, standard and Mini.
  • Sensa in your browser. The browser tab and a phone home-screen shortcut now read Sensa. With Nerd Mode on, the menu has Clear cache for a screen that still looks the way it did before an update.