Interfacing Sensirion SEN6x sensors

By mvuilleu, in Measures and Reviews, march 27,2026.

Sensirion offers a family of sensors designed to measure parameters relevant to assessing indoor air quality in a building. While largely similar, the various SEN6x sensors differ primarily in the air quality standard they are designed to meet and the types of measures they provide. Let's see how to interface them.

Progressive Web Apps

By seb march 22,2026.

This week, we're going to make a few more improvements to the WebApp we built a few weeks ago for remotely controlling a heating system. We're going to turn this WebApp into a Progressive WebApp (PWA), which will enable it to be installed like a native app on Windows.

Improvements to SMS support

By mvuilleu, in Programming and New stuff, march 13,2026.

Nowadays, messages exchanged between cell phones are rarely text messages (Short Message Service, or SMS), as smartphones favor the use of more flexible and secure messaging services. Nevertheless, SMS remains an attractive option as a network-independent validation method, particularly for automated systems. That is why we have recently improved the SMS sending and receiving functionality on the YoctoHub-GSM-4G.

New: Yocto-Servo-C and Yocto-MaxiKnob-C

By martinm, in New stuff, march 06,2026.

This week, Yoctopuce announces two new USB-C module conversions: the Yocto-Servo-C and the Yocto-MaxiKnob-C. Let's take a closer look at them, shall we?

Transition to Python typing for the Velux system

By seb february 28,2026.

This week, we're going to revisit an old project. A few years ago, we built a system to control the Velux skylight windows in a room. We wrote a Python application that controlled a Velux KLF 200 interface using Yocto-MaxiPowerRelays. This system still works, but this week, we decided to update it to use our new Typed Python library.