TheThingBox 2.3.4

• Faster first boot

TheThingBox 2.3.3

• Fix a bug where the RSA key was badly generated.

TheThingBox 2.3.1

• New: Upgrade Node-RED from 0.14.4 to 0.14.6 (and even a little more recent version from GitHub) to get a big editing form in function node.
• minor bugs fixed

Featuring:

• Node-RED version 0.14.6
• Node.js version: v4.4.7
• Mosquitto 1.4 (with websockets port 9001)
• Jessie
• … more

TheThingBox 2.2.0

• New: MySQL (Node + DBMS)
• New: MongoDb (Node + DBMS)
• minor bugs fixed

MySQL and MongoDb can’t be added by the “update” functionality menu. :-( You have to write a new SDCard.

Featuring:

• Node-RED version 0.14.4
• Node.js version: v4.4.7
• Mosquitto 1.4 (with websockets port 9001)
• Jessie
• … more

TheThingBox 2.0.1

• Update to the new NodeRED
• Add Node “NotifyUI” that displays a notification on all connected clients

TheThingBox 2.0.0

• Runs on PiZero, Pi, Pi2 and Pi3
• Backup/restore A local backup of the userdir and the system can be done from the settings: an automatic backup each hour and/or manually with a “create backup” button.
• Factory reset If the boot is interrupted four times, a factory reset is done.

TheThingBox 1.8.6

• Account: There is now an account with a cloud. This opens the way to amazing new services in the futur, and a way to remotely manage your devices from a web pages.

• There is a way to change the language of the pages in the settings. English and French are available. If you don’t choose, the browser language is used.

• System Update: in the settings, there is now a button to update the system files to the new releases. It lets your flow unchanged. Now, backup of the userdir will no more be necessary to upgrade the Thingbox!!!

• The Esendex node is removed. It can be installed again from the cloud by using the “import/Node” menu and typing “ttb-node-esendex” in the edit field.

• Better edit dialog in the info node

• Add a patch to fix the export library problem with i18n

Advanced:

• apt-get update
• apt-get install avahi-utils
• ttb-node-avahi-browse: node using avahi to scan the local area network

Featuring:

• Node-RED 0.11.0
• Node.js 0.10.36
• Mosquitto 1.3.5
• Raspbian wheezy

TheThingBox 1.8.5

• Fix missing comments in settings

• The display node now display msg.message if exists instead of msg.payload. Thus build your message for the human by setting msg.message and for the next node by setting msg.payload.

• Add Ubidots node back. Sorry.

• Fix file function node.

• Better form to rename the Thingbox in the setting page

Featuring:

• Node-RED 0.11.0
• Node.js 0.10.36
• Mosquitto 1.3.5
• Raspbian wheezy

TheThingBox 1.8.4

• Enhance NodeInstall to use a flow.json in the npm package. This flow is dynamically added to the running flow.

Thus, you can now intall package from npm that contains nodes, a flow to add functionalities and flow libs to help the user start. For instance, in the ttb-enocean package on npm, the code is in dedicated nodes but also in a flow.

Node install now uses a module instead of an exec node (thus there is now an npm node). More reliable when apt-get are involved.

Add a progress bar in node install

The server timeout is now much longer to allow long node install from the cloud (ttb-zwave takes 6 mn to download and install).

• Any workspace whose name begins with “ttb-” is hidden to the user (except if he checks “show all workspaces”) in the settings.

• Remove false bug report in console at launch

• Debug tab renamed “display/debug” because nobody (except some furious programmers) knows what “debug” means.

• The Serial Port Interface (SPI), needed by many extension boards, is now enabled by default

• Update cryptoAPI and cryptoMessage nodes

TheThingBox 1.8.3

• Restore flow when empty file: add code that replaces the flows with the backup if they are empty. This can happen if you hard reboot the Pi within 40 s after a Deploy/activate of the flow.
• add a fix from Node-RED that prevents partial internationalization.
• All the Thingbox nodes have moved to \root\thethingbox\node_modules\node-red\node_modules to allow the internationalization code to work
• RSync code to enable an automatic update (at user demand)
• Add node City
• Add node DateFormat
• Add node Meteo

Advanced:

• Fixed a limit in size in /tmp
• fix nsswitch

TheThingBox 1.8.1

• The ThingBox was moved to port 80 instead of 1880. The most efficient way to reach it from a browser is now “thethingbox.local/”. The final “/” may be omitted, depending of the browser.
• The Thingbox provides additional features to NodeRED. As much as possible, they are built as a flow using NodeRed itself, known as the System flow in a dedicated workspace named “system”. Now, the tab is hidden. It can be back by checking the box “Show all workspaces” in the settings.
• Upgrade to Node-RED 0.11.0
• Added a “Import node” menu. By giving a npm keyword in a dialog, a new node (or more) is automatically installed from npm. If the download contains flow libs, they are added to the libs and appears in the libs menu.
• Added a “Restore the flows” menu that rollbacks the flow to the state before the last deploy (using the backup file that NodeRED makes)
• Added a way to show/hide all Thingbox system flows (hidden tabs) for advanced users
• Added code to automatically set the Date/Time from the network (ntpdate) since it make certificates fail if not accurate.
• The part of the flow that drives the internal processes of the Thingbox has been moved out the userdir folder. We plan to provide a cloud backup of the userdir folder to help upgrading the Thingbox.
• Hue is no more part of the release, due to a hard to fix bug (NodeRED fails if no network at boot - to be investigated). You can get it back using the ’import node" feature (see here).
• Added code to remove swap and log to the SDCard to make it live longer (credit domopi.eu).

• Now, the used flow is the dynamic merge of

  • The user flow in \root\userdir\flows.json
  • The Thingbox flow in \root\thethingbox\node_modules\node-red\flow\system.json that contains the flows that make the settings (and more) work.

Thus there is a new process to backup your flow before updating: See here.

• Fix a WiFi list bug
• Fix the keyboard in GUI mode (was set to AZERTY) that prevents to login from the Pi UI
• Added Splitter node (http://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-splitter)
• Some other fix
• There is new torrent download (please, seeeeed!)

TheThingBox 1.7.0

• Upgrade to Node-RED 0.10.10
• New node Google Calendar

• New way to access the ThingBox for our Macintosh users: launch your favorite browser on your PC and reach the following browser adress:

  thethingbox.local:1880

TheThingBox 1.6.0

• A node to play music!
• We now use 7zip instead of RAR to zip the file since some unzipper didn’t succeed to unzip.

TheThingBox 1.5.0

• Upgrade to Node-RED 0.10.6
• Add Philips HUE management Manage a Philips Hue bulb
• All user data is now out from Node-RED in a separate dir at the root of the Pi
• Crypto-JS available in all nodes function

TheThingBox 1.4.5

• Fixed a missing “semver” part (Updated serialPort and semver)
• upgrade to Node-RED 0.10.4
• update/upgrade of the Pi Operating System

TheThingBox 1.4.4

• Node-RED 0.10.2 and various upgrades
• New Raspbian release includes the desktop
• The image file auto expands at first boot to use all the SDCard

TheThingBox 1.4.3

• Node-RED 0.9.1
• the pi user is back (psw: raspberry)

TheThingBox 1.4.2

• Compatible with Raspberry Pi B+
• mosquitto up to 1.3.4
• node.js up to 0.10.31

TheThingBox 1.4.1

New settings page in menu :

• Setting form to change the name reachable on the network
• Setting form to connect to WiFi
• Setting form to set a static IP

TheThingBox 1.4.0

• Node-RED 0.8.0 installed
• Update some Nodes :
  • Carriots to Xively (cf. TheThingBox 1.3) :
    • Add the timestamp to synchronise with actual timestamp.
    • A timestamp can be specified in msg.timestamp.
  • Owntracks :
    • Functionalities updated
• Add new Nodes :
  • Distance :
    • Calculate the distance between two positions : One received in the msg and one specified on the distance node
  • Timestamp :
    • Add the timestamp in msg.time

Technical what’s new

TheThingBox 1.3

• Some new nodes:

  • watch :
    • File change notification.
  • serial :
    • Node to use serial port.
  • feedparse :
    • Node to resolves relative URLs and properly handles XML namespaces.
  • arduino :
    • Allows arduino controls from Node-RED.
  • redis :
    • Redis client for node.js.
  • mongodb :
    • A node.js driver for mongodb.
  • json2xml :
    • This node allows to parse Json objects into XML.
  • Carriots :
    • Allows the user to have a mailbox in which he can store all types of data.
  • Emoncms :
    • Node which allows to store data and create easily dashboard.
  • Esendex :
    • Node which allows to send SMS.
  • Evrythng :
    • Allows the user to create properties for a Thng and give them a value. This properties can be seen thanks to graphs.
  • Exosite :
    • Allows the user to send and store data sent about a created device.
  • HiveMQ input and output :
    • Public MQTT server where it’s possible to subscribe or publish.
  • Owntracks :
    • Node which subscribe to your location topic on a HiveMQ server.
  • Thingspeak :
    • Allows the user to have 8 graphs. Data of graphs can be import/export in csv files.
  • Tinamous :
    • Allows the user to have 12 graph for each device. Each graph can be download in jpeg, png, pdf or svg format.
  • Ubidots :
    • Allows the user to have graphs. They can be export to csv format.
  • Xively :
    • Allows the user to create some graphs that display data with several display options.

• Added module wiring-pi :

Module wiring-pi, g++ and python has been installed.

• Console file :

A new button has been added on Node-RED. In the dropdown menu, you have the button called “console” which corresponds to the file console.txt.

This file is overwritten every time Node-RED is launched. It’s the Node-RED console when this one is launched. With that file, you can see if there was problems, for example : a node doesn’t work because it needs a module.

• Small change in the visual interface.

• Node-RED v0.7.2

• Node.js v0.10.28

TheThingBox 1.2

• Added Wiring pi and two nodes on Node-RED : rpi-gpio
• Added a node to send emails
• Node-RED now installed using Git to facilitate updates
• Added a pi user, login : pi and password : raspberry It's not a root account but you can use sudo commands.
• Installed some commands like gcc, make and sudo.