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  • May 19, 2020 at 10:12 am #28371
    MATTHEW MOON
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    Hello guys just waiting for my Smoggie PM should be arriving today and as far as I know I will have the first in Jersey (9×5 mile) Island in English Channel). Depending on wind direction we can sometimes end up with dense areas of pollution coming up from the near continent so expecting interesting data.

    Can I ask if it actually matters whether the unit is inside or outside. Thinking about what it is calibrated for, household dust shouldn’t be an issue and I can’t think of anything else indoors that would be much smaller than that. I have the WiFi version and was going to attach a suitable solar panel to a power bank so it charges the power bank during the day and then the unit feeds off the power bank at night but thought I would ask anyway.

    Glad to be part of your project.

    May 21, 2020 at 5:18 pm #28372
    MATTHEW MOON
    Participant

    I think the main issue now is that I cannot stay connected for very long. As mentioned before when I can get on 192..168. Etc the config page shows dns and ip not set. Is this the issue and how can I resolve please?

    May 21, 2020 at 7:31 pm #28373
    Wolferl
    Moderator

    Hi Matthew,

    I think the unit should be mounted outdoors. It comes in a nice case which makes it easy to put in a place where the sun will not heat it up.

    I’m not sure what the problem is with the IP, though. Just sign it up to your Wifi network, your router/access point wll give it IP and DNS addresses automatically. You need to reboot the Smoggie to get the new settings to work.
    If you want to have a fixed IP, which is convenient if you want to routinely check the unit, then set the Smoggies MAC to a fixed IP on your access point.

    I’ve got my SMOGGIE a few weeks ago, and it was easy to set it up that way.
    It is mounted outside.

    Cheers,
    Wolferl

    May 21, 2020 at 8:00 pm #28374
    MATTHEW MOON
    Participant

    Ah cheers mate all worked like a charm!!!

    Thank you so much.

    As for housing outside, it gets very blowy on my balcony so I am gonna have to come up with an outer housing to make sure USB socket, power etc stay dry!

    Thanks again 🙂

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    May 22, 2020 at 7:49 am #28378
    Wolferl
    Moderator

    Hi Matthew,

    Great you got it to work! Thanks for the feedback!

    Cheers,
    Wolferl

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