Enviro Indoor

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Hi I assume its OK to run the Enviro Indoor from 3 AA size batteries?
Also I have noted that some users are finding that some of the Enviro boards seem to have a bug which stops them uploading after a period of time. Will you be contacting users with new firmware when you have resolved the issue?

Thanks

John

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Yes. It’ll handle up to 5.5V, and 3xAA is 4.5V.

For what it’s worth, I’m using the 0.0.9 release and haven’t had a problem.

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Thanks Matt

Yes I am using that release but I noted that others with problems are still having problems with that release. 0.0.9 - Enviro Urban - Exception while uploading - Caused board to hang fro 2hrs · Issue #119 · pimoroni/enviro · GitHub

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Interesting. My enviros aren’t uploading to a mqtt broker directly, so maybe that’s why I’ve not seen this. I’m using a custom http endpoint, which does relay to mqtt afterwards, but the mqtt connection doesn’t happen on the enviros. Just two Indoor models here.

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I raised that initially and seems it is only on high frequency readings/uploads. Have two other indoors running on battery taking readings every 10 minutes and they don’t have the same issue, only time they stop is when the battery runs out :-)

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I have two, and they were set to take readings every five minutes and upload every single time. Batteries didn’t last long, but I had no other problems.

I ended up customising the firmware to have different periods during the day with different reading frequencies, since I need more regular data at certain times and less data at other times.