Fixed UTC Offset in SOLO As you probably already know, Lunatico’s SOLO CloudWatcher allows the user to specify the time zone the device lives in by navigating to https://aagsolo/config in your internet browser and selecting the wrench icon. This value is very important, as it affects: The time in the X-axis of the charts in […]
Emergency priority PushOver messages from the Dragonfly Starting today, any PushOver message sent by the Dragonfly, if it includes the word Alarm (capital A), will be sent to your smartphone as emergency priority. This means: the message will be repeated every 30 seconds, until acknowledged, for as long as 10 minutes You can adjust PushOver
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CloudWatcher operated roll off roof Many motor systems include a push button to open or close the roof. They typically require the button to be pushed for a short period of time, and that will trigger the roof to open if closed, or close if opened. One safe way to have the CloudWatcher relay close
From Lunático we have been playing around a little bit with Node-RED – as they say “…a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.”
Truth is, it is fun, quite easy, and very useful and interesting things that can be accomplished with relatively little effort.
For a long time, we’ve been using and recommending PushBullet as a very convenient way of receiving notifications from astronomy equipment. We added support for them in the Solo CloudWatcher, and then explained how to send the messages from scripts, so they could be issued from almost all of our products. Just now, we’ve added
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