New features to the IOT Cloud

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Is there a list of the new features resulting from the recent system upgrade?

I have spotted that you can make the widgets smaller on the dashboards which is a very welcome improvement.

Is there anywhere we can post/collate ideas for future improvements?

cheers, Giles

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Hi @farmer_giles.

Not that I am aware of. The Arduino Cloud team does sometimes make an announcement on the Arduino Blog when especially noteworthy changes are made, but I don't know whether one is planned for this update.

I think this forum category is the best place to do so.

The exception would be if you wanted to make feature requests specific to one of the open source components. In this case, the best place to submit the request would be to the issue tracker in the public GitHub repository for that component:

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There will be soon a blog post about the latest news.
A couple of things:

  • introduced support for dark mode
  • redesigned the Thing page to improve usability, unifying Thing and Device under the same view, with links to Triggers and Dashboards

I know it’s a very short summary and doesn’t allow you to appreciate the change, so pls stay tuned for the blog post…

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A link to that blog posting area would be helpful!

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The area is here @sonofcy:

The post about the latest Arduino Cloud update has not yet been published, but there are plenty of other interesting articles.

We'll be sure to circle back with a link once the update announcement blog post is up.

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@svisconti

Thanks Stefano, this sounds good.

A bug that I am experiencing at the moment is in the iOS App. When I load a dashboard it works for a short while - about a minute. If I switch app and switch back it loses connection, the same if the screen locks. My only option is to force quit the app and reload the dashboard. It’s a bit of a pain. If that could be looked at it would be really great.

Another big improvement would be to be able to add text labels to the dashboards, such as: “Incubator 01” next to a bunch of widgets. Also the ability to draw boxes on the dashboard would be really good. When dealing with large numbers of cloud variables across large numbers of machines it can be really helpful to label areas of information and separate them.

For example, we have 10 incubators where we monitor temperature, humidity, egg turning, cooling cycles, and so on. I We also have 12 brooding units. I’m finalising a Nano-based control system for the heating system to cut the cost of heating in these by around 65%

Any chance we could design different layouts for Desktop/Mobile? At the moment if I change the desktop layout it changes the Mobile layout. I would prefer two totally different layouts that match the screen layouts of the two scenarios.

I hope this is helpful! thanks!! Giles

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Thanks @farmer_giles your use cases are really interesting to us. I will contact you in dm to organize a meeting with our UX Design team and discuss.

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The blog post describing the recent changes to Arduino Cloud has now been published: