2019-08-19 0.6.0

Mordillo

• Explicitly deinit() LTE modem on each startup
• Fix settings.example-bob.py. Thanks, @MKO1640_ and @ClemensGruber_.
• Improve formatting of BEEP telemetry field mapping for BOB
• Disable telemetry adapter offline state for now
• Disable DEBUG log level for system sensors
• Add the "maintenance" device status / mode
• Add UDP mode server for signalling the device into maintenance mode
• Add device discovery and UDP client for signalling maintenance mode
• Attempt to fix woes with IPv6 addresses from terkin.py
• Skip networks like 127.0.0.0/8 and 169.254.0.0/16 for terkin.py
• Make "terkin.py" handle multiple MAC address prefixes
  coming from different Pycom devices. Now: WiPy, FiPy.
• Optionally read MAC address from command line in order to
  discover and maintain specific device
• Add MQTT authentication
• Update documentation
• Improve rshell access over IP
• Rename environment variable MCU_SERIAL_PORT to MCU_PORT
  for configuring both USB/UART port and IP address
• Use offset values for DS18B20 sensors from settings
• Enable/disable individual sensors per settings
• Install MicroWebSrv and MicroDNSSrv libraries into dist-packages folder
• Add singleton factory method to TerkinDatalogger. Thanks, @DieDiren_.
• Increase timeout for ARP ping requests with "terkin.py"
• Use most recent "dotty_dict" module
• Properly format MAC addresses
• Add maintenance mode interval to configuration settings
• Lazily import "ButtonManager" for trimming #11
• Improve MAC address parsing and formatting
• Improve MAC address normalization by also removing dashes and dots
• Follow the Pycopy MicroPython fork, standard library wise
• Upgrade to Dotty Dict 1.1.1. Thanks, @pawelzny_.
• Improve sandbox tooling incl. FTP source code upload
• DS18B20: Extend time between starting the
  conversion and reading the sensor to one second.
• Add MiniNet helper and corresponding Makefile rule wifi-connect
• Ship configuration blueprint with deep sleep disabled
• Improve MiniNet helper to get IP address
• Set default maintenance duty cycle to 15 seconds
• Improve Watchdog subsystem by adjusting to edge cases. Thanks, @pinguin999_.
• Reorder sections when uploading using FTP
• Add Self-documenting-Makefile helper
• Improve Pycom firmware installation
• Slightly document Makefile targets
• Increase timeout when sending ARP packets for device discovery. Thanks, @ClemensGruber_.
• Slightly adjust "make help". More Makefile improvements.
• Desktop notifications for MicroTerkin Agent
• Make MicroTerkin Agent write detected IP address into file
• Improve Makefile sandbox tooling
• Prettify logging
• Optionally start modeserver, defaulting to true
• Add basic HTTP API subsystem. Thanks @vkuhlen_ and @DieDiren_.
• Add make provide-wifi command for starting the access point interactively
• Start WiFi in STA_AP mode by default
• Disable garbage collector when reading sensors to improve timing
• Improve tooling and inline documentation
• Add option main.fastboot for skipping LTE modem teardown
  for faster development iterations
• Curate the garbage collector
• Add backup mechanism for configuration files
• Fix polling for WiFi connectivity
• HTTP API: Add basic endpoints for configuration settings
• Add backup configuration snippet to settings blueprint files
• Makefile: Prompt for restart after FTP transfer
• Makefile: Add RUNNING_IN_HELL flag
• Makefile: Suppress desktop notifications on Windows for now
• Makefile-Todo: Use lftp.exe for file transfer on Windows?
• Extend module search path to "terkin" and "hiveeyes"
  folders in order to support native Pymakr operation
• Make reference to "datalogger" object available in global scope
• Slightly tweak garbage collector curator to collect
  garbage after computing and setting threshold
• Add more accessor methods to TerkinConfiguration
• Add get_last_stacktrace utility function
• Fix memory exhaustion when starting the MicroWebSrv twice
• HTTP API: Add endpoints for getting and setting individual configuration settings
• Object model refactoring
• HTTP API: Add endpoint for getting the last reading
• Refactor sensors-section of configuration settings
• Settings: Rename sensor "key" attribute to sensor "id"
• Settings: Rename HX711 enumeration attribute from "address" to "number"
• Fix broken dependencies re. pycopy-collections
• Move HTTP API request/response examples to screenshots folder
• Constructor refactoring and naming things
• Add id attribute to bus configuration settings
• Refactor and improve DS18B20 settings, reading and processing
• Improve prettified sensor readings log output
• Improve HTTP API
• Improve initialization robustness with bus device objects
• Add mpy-cross-util.py
• Add ahead-of-time compilation using mpy-cross
  through make recycle-ng MPY_CROSS=true
• Refactoring, documentation, cleanups, naming things
• Improve user experience with mpy-mk sandbox toolkit. Thanks, @rohlan_ and @ClemensGruber_.
  • Fix interactive confirmation
  • Add advices to guide user on errors
  • Improve Windows compatibility for the ng series of commands
• Add colors to mpy-mk
• Add note about installing pycom-fwtool-cli on Linux. Thanks, weef.
• mpy-mk: Improve operating system detection
• mpy-mk: Streamline user interface
• Another attempt at touch button wakeup
• mpy-mk: Improve cross compilation
• sensors: Use BME280 library by robert-hh
• mpy-mk: Add "make colors" for colored output testing on Windows
• Make MicroTerkin Agent compatible with Python3.5. Thanks, @rohlan_.
• Attempt to automate installation of the modem firmware (WIP). Thanks, @rohlan_.
• Gracefully ignore missing "py-notifier" package on Linux. Thanks, @rohlan_.
• Fix scapy dependency woes. Thanks, @rohlan_.
• Add tools for building firmware images for ESP32 based on Pycom MicroPython.
  Thanks, @emmanuel-florent_.
• onewire.py: Use library optimized for timing and with enabled CRC checks by @robert-hh_, thanks!
• First steps with BLE (WIP)
• First steps with LTE (WIP)
• Be more graceful when starting network services
• Wrap "station.isconnected()" to mitigate unhandled exceptions on timeout errors
• Extend default watchdog timeout to 60 seconds
• Try two times to connect to WiFi station
• Makefile improvements
  • Don't run "mpy-cross-setup" on each invocation of "mpy-compile"
  • Don't clobber "mpy_cross_all.py"
• Improve LED signalling
• Parallelize networking subsystem
• Prepare real "light sleep" (WIP)
• Attempt to reset WiFi connection if scanning fails
• Add "mboot", the universal MicroPython bootloader
• Reconfigure watchdog when connecting the device using MiniNet
• Propagate platform information for implementing platform switch conditions
• Transfer "mboot" bootloader and "mininet" module
• Start making Terkin platform-agnostic. Thanks, Markus!
• Add release archives with frozen modules compatible to Pycom MicroPython