Update: Tech support reply recieved from Joe and Wicked devices

[Damon Rand]

Hi there,

To those of you trying to get your eggs working, Joe and Victor from
Wicked devices have now responded, full messages are below. The key
points..

1. The firmware in the shield DOES need to be updated, we didn't have
the correct AVR programmer to do that at our first session but I will
ask at the hackspace to see if they have one as well. As mentioned by
Alan earlier we need something like this one.
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300

2. The AQEBase and AQERemote repositories we have used ARE correct,
but we may need to make sure the dependent libraries are also
up-to-date. Alternatively we can just program the .hex files rather
than compile.

3. As discovered by Tim we do need to update the resistor calibration
as per this blog post.
http://blog.wickeddevice.com/?p=385

4. Yes, airqualityegg.com is not expected to work at the moment, for
now we should rely on cosm.com directly.

PS. I will be along to Bristol hackspace tonight where I will be
attempting to get my egg working as above and will prepare a
step-by-step guide docs for the egg build sessions next week.

Damon.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe Saavedra <joe.m.s...@gmail.com>
Date: 29 November 2012 04:20
Subject: Re: Air quality eggs - latest news
To: Damon Rand <da...@smartstreetsbristol.com>
Cc: Victor Aprea <victor...@wickeddevice.com>, s...@cosm.com, Ed
Borden <borden...@gmail.com>


Damon!

So sorry I haven't gotten back to you!

Firstly, were you able to successfully program the ATTiny on the
shield with the .hex file from here:
https://github.com/WickedDevice/aqe_sensor_interface_shield ?

That's foremost. Indeed the links the Base and Remote code are
correct, so with the latest .hex burned, the EggBus library should
function properly. Can you link to which feeds you've got up?

I've cc'd Vic Aprea from Wicked just in case, but I have a feeling
that's the issue.

Let us know where you are in all of that, we'll make sure you're up
and running. Don't worry about showing up on airqualityegg.com, the
backend and linking is still being worked on.

Thanks, Talk soon,

joe

On 29 November 2012 05:40, Victor Aprea <victor...@wickeddevice.com> wrote:
> Damon,
>
> Yes, the latest code that we plan to ship with is currently all out on
> Git-Hub in the locations you have noted (as well as snapshots of all the
> required libraries at
> https://github.com/jmsaavedra/Air-Quality-Egg/tree/master/libraries. You're
> correct that following the blog post instructions should help restore your
> shield to a state where it has sound R0 values stored on it, which will in
> turn make the math turn out more reasonably. If you do reflash the
> ATtiny88's you will almost certainly need to go through that procedure.
>
> The reason your data will show up on Cosm right now but not on
> airqualityegg.com is because we need to iron out some details on Cosm's end
> to establish how they are to query the Egg's feed. The current dashboard is
> looking for a datastream *named* NO2 and a datastream *named* CO, but the
> firmware is naming datastreams by a convention that guarantees name
> uniqueness, and *tagging* the feeds in a manner that the Cosm developers
> should be able to exploit to neatly extract the required data for the
> dashboard. Joe, any word on that development from the Cosm team?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Vic