Now the SensorPush G1 WiFi Gateway enables you to monitor your SensorPush sensors remotely from anywhere via the Internet!
With our included cloud service, you'll have the full SensorPush experience, accuracy and ease of use, no matter where you are! Receive current conditions, alerts and even the full data history just as if you were monitoring locally.
It's perfect for keeping an eye on conditions at home or at a vacation property while you're away. Make sure your greenhouse, cigars or wine collection is safe while you're at work. Whatever the situation, when you need to monitor environmental conditions from afar, the SensorPush G1 WiFi Gateway has you covered.
Our sensors use Bluetooth LE to communicate, so without a Gateway the range is limited to Bluetooth range (e.g. around the house). This works well if you only need the data while on site with the sensor. If you would like to monitor SensorPush sensors remotely (e.g. away from the house), you need to use them in conjunction with a SensorPush WiFi Gateway. The Gateway relays the data of any in-range SensorPush sensors to the internet using your local WiFi or Ethernet to your network.
The simple setup process connects your G1 WiFi Gateway to the internet, via WiFi or Ethernet and links it to your SensorPush cloud account. This account is included with the purchase of a G1 WiFi gateway and is easily created during setup. Once online, the gateway receives data via Bluetooth from any in-range SensorPush sensors and relays that information to our web-based service (a.k.a. "the cloud").
The SensorPush app can then retrieve the data from the internet, so you can access it from anywhere. As before, the system has been designed to be as flexible as possible. Multiple gateways on one account? No problem. Multiple phones monitoring one account? Of course. Just log each device in with the same email address and password and your data is instantly synchronized across devices for easy access by family members, employees, house sitters or anyone you wish.
When a sensor is renamed or alert settings are changed, the updates are reflected on all connected devices within moments. When you add new sensors, just pair them with one device. The gateway and all other devices will automatically import them and begin monitoring right away.
Additionally, if all of your sensors are within range of a G1 WiFi gateway, you can now disable Bluetooth within the SensorPush app, or even on your phone (once setup is complete) for improved battery life.
Lastly, we designed the gateway to work seamlessly with the existing sensors, so those of you who have already purchased our sensors are all set.
First, there’s a lot of added flexibility with monitoring. For example, there's no set limit to the number of sensors you can monitor with a single gateway.
Similarly, there’s no set limit to the number of mobile devices that can simultaneously log into a single account. If several people want to get the same alerts about the same sensor on their individual smartphones, they can.
Second, the gateway reads the Bluetooth signals from the sensors through its external antenna. The antenna helps improve the signal fidelity, so this range is slightly better than what you would get from a smartphone or tablet communicating directly with a sensor. As you might guess, the gateway also uses the external antenna to communicate with your WiFi router.
One of the biggest gains in terms of range that you get from using a gateway has to do with the fact that it’s not a mobile device. A gateway doesn’t have to go where you go. The gateway stays with the sensors when you leave and it stays in a location that’s best for communicating with your sensors. In quite a few cases, the best location for a gateway to communicate with your sensors might be some place you don’t visit often even if you are frequently nearby, like in your basement, attic, barn, or storage area. You might want to experiment a bit to find a place that has the best coverage of your sensors and still maintains a stable WiFi connection.
Ethernet is also an option instead of using WiFi. Some of our customers use their sensors in locations without WiFi, or they would rather run direct-burial CAT 5 to an out building like a greenhouse. Whatever the case, this jack allows you to just plug into a network directly.
Finally, the other main benefit to the Gateway is that there is a web-browser based dashboard with added data visualization tools and other features such as email alerts that can only be enabled through internet access. In fact, you can even set up a list of multiple email addresses to receive email alerts.
First, there’s a lot of added flexibility with monitoring. For example, there's no set limit to the number of sensors you can monitor with a single gateway.
Similarly, there’s no set limit to the number of mobile devices that can simultaneously log into a single account. If several people want to get the same alerts about the same sensor on their individual smartphones, they can.
Second, the gateway reads the Bluetooth signals from the sensors through its external antenna. The antenna helps improve the signal fidelity, so this range is slightly better than what you would get from a smartphone or tablet communicating directly with a sensor. As you might guess, the gateway also uses the external antenna to communicate with your WiFi router.
One of the biggest gains in terms of range that you get from using a gateway has to do with the fact that it’s not a mobile device. A gateway doesn’t have to go where you go. The gateway stays with the sensors when you leave and it stays in a location that’s best for communicating with your sensors. In quite a few cases, the best location for a gateway to communicate with your sensors might be some place you don’t visit often even if you are frequently nearby, like in your basement, attic, barn, or storage area. You might want to experiment a bit to find a place that has the best coverage of your sensors and still maintains a stable WiFi connection.
Ethernet is also an option instead of using WiFi. Some of our customers use their sensors in locations without WiFi, or they would rather run direct-burial CAT 5 to an out building like a greenhouse. Whatever the case, this jack allows you to just plug into a network directly.
Finally, the other main benefit to the Gateway is that there is a web-browser based dashboard with added data visualization tools and other features such as email alerts that can only be enabled through internet access. In fact, you can even set up a list of multiple email addresses to receive email alerts.
NOTE: If you have HT.w and HTP.xw sensors, you can view their data and historical graphs on the new dashboard beta at beta.sensorpush.com. Full roll-out of the new SensorPush dashboard coming November 1, 2021.
A web browser dashboard makes it easy to view your data such as Gateway status and sensor readings on a laptop or desktop. You can view graphs for multiple sensors alongside one another, or even layer multiple sensors into a single graph.
The dashboard also allows you to configure certain features specific to the Gateway cloud such as chaging your account email address or its password. One major feature you can control through the web dashboard are email alerts. Once you log in, go to the settings icon in the upper right where you will find the option to activate email alerts and other features (e.g. change the password or the email address for the account). Also, the email alert system allows you to create a list of multiple email addresses to receive alerts.
Here is the link to the web dashboard beta: https://dashboard.sensorpush.com
Some other useful notes about the web dashboard in general...
In the dashboard UI, there are two primary modes (selected in upper left). They are the "Graph" and the "Status" modes. Graph mode is the time series data from sensors. Status mode is the current conditions, the signal strength, the last reading, and other details for your sensors. In this view, red indicates that the sensor's last reading is out of date. This is particularly useful for accounts with large numbers of sensors.
In the Graph view, sensors are listed and can be toggled on/off by using the switch to the right of the sensor's name. Once toggled on, that sensor's data appears in one of two viewing options: "Layers" or "Streams."
In the Layers view, multiple sensors can be plotted together on the same graph. In the Streams view, sensors can be plotted alongside one another in parallel. The parallel view will be particularly important once we have sensor types other than temperature and humidity.
The rest of the controls are relatively straightforward if you've used online graphing tools before (e.g. Google Finance). There are time controls to the right, and near the top of the graph toward the left is a small flag that allows you to toggle the scroller pin on and off, etc.
Specifications
| WiFi Frequency Band | 2.4 GHz |
| Width | 5.6 in / 141mm |
| Height | 0.8 in / 20 mm |
| Depth | 4.2 in / 107 mm |
| Weight | 5.3 oz / 149 g |
| Power |
DC 5V / 2A The outer diameter of the barrel connector is 5.5mm and the inner is 2.1mm. Also, there is an alternative method for powering the Gateway. If you have a male-to-male USB cable and a phone charger with 5 volts / 2 amps you can power the gateway via its USB port. |
| Port forwarding | For outbound ports it's: 80, 443, and UDP port 123 (NTP). All network connections are encrypted and no incoming ports are required to be opened on the Gateway. |
| MAC Address | MAC address information is available in the app during set up. It will appear once the Gateway has connected to the mobile device during configuration. To obtain MAC address information for a Gateway that's already set up in the app, first make sure you are on site with the gateway (e.g. same room). Then, open the app to the main screen, select the Gateway from among the devices and then select the "configure" option. The app will then temporarily connect your mobile device to the Gateway using Bluetooth and provide you with MAC address information. |
| Networking options | Whether using WiFi or Ethernet, your network needs to be able to configure clients automatically via DHCP. Static IP addresses and other custom settings are not available at this time. With WiFi, you’ll be able to use WPA/WPA2, WEP, or open networks. Web-based WiFi authentication (like you often see in a hotel, for instance) is not supported at this time. |
| Wireless types supported | 802.11 B/G/N |
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