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I’ve fixed some bugs in the pydonhive scripts (related to how the data was parsed and scaled).

It’s highly recommended to update!

http://docs.sensestage.eu/installation-and-use-of-the-python-hive-client

There is also now a kind of meta-script where you can choose which method to use to send data on (datanetwork, libmapper, osc), and a GUI to set the command line arguments, together with a way of storing the default settings for command line parameters.

I’ve now added an option to map a datanode in order to send data to all minibees at once. This will only work with the API mode of the minibees.

So far this has been implemented in the clients for Python (the hive client) and SuperCollider.

I’ve now added custom examples for using the HMC6343 sensor (not yet tested), and the DS18x20 temperature sensor (tested).

I have now tested the MiniBee with the NewSoftSerial library.

There is a small modification needed for it to work on the 12 MHz clock, so an adapted version of NewSoftSerial is distributed with the libraries.

I have tested with this library the following baudrates:

• 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, reading and writing work ok.
• baudrate 115200 reading works, but writing doesn’t.

I’ve finished making a different version of the firmware library, which uses the XBee API mode for communication.

This has a few advantages for addressing the MiniBees. In this way not all MiniBees will be receiving all communication anymore, so messages for a specific node will really only arrive at that specific node. This makes the messaging a bit more robust.

Instructions for changing your minibee setup to API mode.

In the shop you can now choose which communication style you want your nodes preprogrammed with.