Our building management company was painting the hallway walls recently. They are using a ‘low VOC’ primer and paint. Well, we have a VOC monitor running in our offices, so thought it might be fun to see if we can tell when they are painting, even though it’s in an adjoining room, not the hallway […]
Egg: Getting the data out
The Air Quality Egg is great for collecting data and viewing it, but what if you want to get the data out for further analysis, for example in Excel or R? There are two easy way to do this: If you have created a lab, you can click the letter icon in the top right […]
Egg Version One End Of Life
It has been two years since we announced the end of support for version one Air Quality Eggs. Xively have contacted us to say they will soon be terminating the service that the version 1 is based on, and therefore we are announcing the end of life for all version one eggs (They were great, […]
Egg Firmware Update Today
Lots of great new improvements are here! We will be pushing a new firmware release to all air quality eggs at 4pm Eastern Time, May 16th, 2017, version 2.2.1. To take advantage of this, please turn on your egg, or reset it if it’s already on. The update will be downloaded and installed automatically. If […]
Air Quality Egg: Offline Mode FTW!
Overview The most common mode of operation for Air Quality Egg is Wi-Fi connected publishing data to the internet. There are, of course, situations and locations where that’s just not possible. Luckily, any Air Quality Egg also supports the ability to collect data offline (as in not connected to a Wi-Fi network at all), and to […]
Air Quality Egg OTA Coming
Hi all, this blog post is just a note to Air Quality Egg owners that we’re pushing an Over the Air firmware update this weekend for all current models of Air Quality Egg. Please read on for some more details on what’s included, but for most people all you’re going to notice is the version […]
Air Quality Egg: So You’re a (Web) Developer…
It recently occurred to me that we really don’t have any form of documentation or a helping hand for developers wanting to digest data produced by shiny new Air Quality Eggs. I guess we’ve just assumed that people who were interested would go over to OpenSensors.io and figure it out for themselves. I’ve answered enough support […]
Mahogany Angular Clock Build
One of our users, Martin Schmidt, created a beautiful custom build of the Angular Clock. Even better, he has agreed to share the files that he used, so you can do it too! Martin: “While doing some research for another project I came across these industrial panel meters on Amazon and I realized that the design was […]
OpenSensors Data Migration Complete
Good news for Air Quality Egg v2 users. OpenSensors Data Migration is complete and the Download Tool is once again working. Happy downloading!
OpenSensors Data Migration
Just a quick note to the Egg version 2 community. Happy New Year! OpenSensors is currently undergoing a technology update to improve the performance of their database back-end. Part of that activity is a data migration from the old database to the new database, that is expected to take about two days to complete (they have […]