AVR-DB: emonTx V4, new hardware in progress

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Hello all, we are happy to say that the EmonTx4 is now available in the shop :tada: we will be able to ship the first set of orders early next week.

We are starting with a quiet launch as we continue to gear up with this new product. For those of you who have been following along here for a while, we would like to say thank you with a 10% early bird discount code O3N5S93TFQ (Available until next Monday 28th of November).

Items in progress

  • We are in the process of moving from the old guide documentation to a new site based on ‘Read the docs’. Please see: https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/emontx4/overview.html
    This will house both the existing documentation e.g emonPi and emonTx v3 in addition to the new hardware. This new implementation builds directly from the documentation placed in e.g the emonTx4 GitHub repository itself, so you can choose to either view the same documentation on github or with the nice ‘Read the docs’ theme.

  • There’s more to add to the EmonTx4 documentation section as well, including using the EmonTx4 with an integrated WiFi extension board, a heat pump monitoring focused install guide discussing how to use the broken out analog input to interface with a voltage output Sika flow meter. Details on the temperature sensing and RFM69 radio among other items.

  • New emonSD image release, we will do a separate announcement about this over the next few days.

  • EmonTx4 Pi Pico, Pi Zero, ESP8266 and ESP32 extension boards will be available as bare PCB development boards in the shop (Shop items still to be created) - these are only for those happy with a bit of soldering and code uploading for the time being.

  • We also need to create the shop item for the lower cost emonVs mini (voltage sensor only - no integrated power supply) and the ACAC adapter converter board.

  • This first release is the single-phase 6 channel configuration, the 3-phase version will follow later. If you do want to order an emonVs voltage sensor with the hardware capability for 3-phase so that it can be used when the 3-phase firmware is available, please email us and we can arrange that: [email protected].

We would welcome suggestions or pull requests for changes to the documentation. The emonTx4 documentation files can be found on github here: emontx4/docs at main · openenergymonitor/emontx4 · GitHub

Let us know if you have any questions regarding the bundle options selection.

@glyn.hudson has also just updated the theme on the shop to something a little more modern :slight_smile:

Thanks everyone!

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