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Thanks for sharing. Great project and good to hear benefits of low cost networking.:) Good luck with it.

Always a lot of work getting a new revision out and running compatibility tests. I always admired the way
Paul Stoffregen of PRJC created a fishbowl for the releases, one I remember with the Teensy had a process of managing/advertising the release and being clear about it being in beta https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/27689-Teensy-LC-Beta-Testing

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Sara captures all the libs specified as part of the release procedure https://github.com/EnviroDIY/ModularSensors/releases/tag/v0.30.0 look for ModularSensors_Dependencies_v0.30.0.zip

I’ve not had any issue with 0.30.0.. The tests are heavily utilizing the SD for reliable web delivery, storing them to uSD, before a POST.
I do a build from…[Read more]

What’s the battery size (maHr)  and solar panel (W)?.  Also which port do you plug the solar panel into?

I’m wondering though, you are also sampling every 5minutes, do you need it to be that frequent? Would 15minutes work?

Interesting, it does seem to be a sudden V drop. Looking at the raw readings on the downloaded csv it is also oscillating f…[Read more]

Just an observation, once the hardware is working nicely, it often takes more software to manage that hardware 🙂  – it’s a broad subject when talking about power   –  the battery voltage encodes  battery type , solar panel sizing, solar aspect and vegetation  coverage, and when is the power used – all to get the readings to show reliably on the w…[Read more]

Also seems to me the core issue is you lost charging /solar about the end of May.

Possibly the panels got over grown, or shaded out.

I have a separate LiIon charger ~ https://www.adafruit.com/product/1905 – but a spare mayfly also works.

Good to hear that the gauges survived, and delivered the data.!!

Many thanks for the refresh on status  and  (target) date :). Very helpful.

Just wondering any visibility on a timeline for new Mayfly, and what the new goodies are :).

I am looking at recommending it in an SSU Engineering project.

The first projection on availability was early August,  just wondering if there is anything that can be shared about the difficulties in them becoming available. I know some of these issues…[Read more]

An idea, equipment failure isolation.  (assuming you’ve got the board in a lab location) Possible combinations of the three variable 1) switch uSD and 2) switch Mayfly  3) add separate USB power supply via USB cable.  Does the Mayfly always fail writing to the uSD, even with known working uSD.   That could be that the uSD slot has a failure (eff…[Read more]

@zeke-holloman  great glad to hear it.

Which modem did you buy and where did you get it?. I thought they were in short supply,  and I’ve been keeping my eye open for them.

I’ve been using the Digi LTE XB3-C-A2-UT-001, which needs the the latest XCTU modem board to upgrade as its is a complex process.

I’m using Release 0.30.0 for stability regression testing, its gone well, and captured a visual description of it here 0.30.0 testing

Hello @d_bozza123, the Ponsel sensor looks very interesting.

I’ve interfaced to a SDI-12 sensor Insitu LT500.

My suggestion is you think of breaking up the work into units.

That is first how to read the sensor Ponsel, and 2nd how to store it to the .csv

For my sensors, it required creating a sensor interface to read the parameters from the…[Read more]

Hi Cheryl, nice pics, good to have a record.

Typically on pressing reset, the LEDs dance red/green for a few seconds.  The orange light would seem to indicate its getting power from the solar panel and charging the battery.

From the pictures it would seem that any “Static electricity” lightening would be channeled by the vegetation around…[Read more]

Hello Cheryl. I wonder could you say what its setting is. What is the geography, what wires are coming out, and how is it powered?

For electronics any form of excess voltage on processor pins can cause the device to fail. However its very difficult to figure out exactly what the cause is, as they say it can be complicated.    You can inspect it v…[Read more]