Indeed, and any website you visit can also obtain your ip address. This never generated privacy concerns as far as I know. The paranoid could always install a TOR based wifi router 
Nevertheless, I would be more than happy with a geolocation API (which will surely use ip address for geo-lookup). Especially if it also provides local timezone info, including daylight saving status.
Iâm more interested in looking up the EXACT location by MAC address like the iPhone can do within 200ft.
IP location databases tend to only locate a subnet, and then are usually +/- a city or so. There is no way to determine whether the location is a specific user. There may be tens of thousands of users in the same IP-based geolocation.
If you expose the actual IP address, then this tends to uniquely identify a single user (at least in a particular time period) and is hence more of a privacy issue. Also, given an IP address you ALSO have the userâs location, if you just look it up in a geolocation database.
If what is needed is just enough of a location for timezone purposes, then geolocation works very well.
Quick questionâŚWith this release can you power on an imp without a wifi connection and have the code run? I know the wifi connection handler is configured with server.setsendtimeoutpolicy(). But im still unsureâŚDoes this need to run after the code, but before the imp.configure?
On this release, you can wake from sleep without wifi and have code run; running from a cold boot will come in the next release.
ie, when you put the batteries in, it currently HAS to connect to the server to verify that the code itâs running is the latest revision.
I thought after power on there wonât be any code to run, because itâs stored in RAM. I thought only the imp OS (and the nv table) is stored in Flash. Am I wrong?
Code is cached in flash (so it doesnât take valuable ram space!), so itâs available without wifi.
I can verify that code runs when it wakes wo Wifi, but not Cold boot. Looking forward to that and Wifi AP Scan! Then the Imp will be even more useful for outdoor and mobile applications.
Hi,
Power up imp today and trired the code, and got âold version! the index âgetsoftwareversionâ does not existâ.
I take it that the new firmware has not got to me yet, is there a priority system for the rel 25 upgrade roll out? if so how does it work? by mac addr (mine is 2369283643fc42ee)?
Thanks,
Ken
Weâve currently paused the rel25 rollout whilst we debug an issue which is affecting a small number (<1%) of customers during the update.
If you want the update right now, let me know and Iâll force it for your device (Iâll do it for you @kenkoknz)
Hi Hugo,
Thanks for the update. I will wait patiently till u have debug the the issue. For me, one of the main reason to get into IMP is the great after sales support and quick response u get from the Imp Team, which u do not necessarily get from some suppliers.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Ken
Oh no, not again!..
powered up IMP today and ya, the new firmware loaded, but elation did not last:
6/28/2013 3:28:13 PM: Downloading new code
6/28/2013 3:28:14 PM: f2f252d - Fri Jun 14 16:08:00 2013
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6/28/2013 3:33:54 PM: Started
6/28/2013 3:33:54 PM: hw pin 8 set.
6/28/2013 3:33:54 PM: Device configured to be "kkwebservo-2"
6/28/2013 3:33:54 PM: watchdog
6/28/2013 3:34:04 PM: watchdog
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6/28/2013 3:43:17 PM: Power state: online=>offline
The dreaded âonline=> off lineâ came back again (ps I left the watchdog timer in the SW), with the new release firmware.
Do not really know what to do nowâŚdo I have a dud IMP, is it the the SW (seems to work well when it is online) , or is it because I use a 3g modem, the other computers on the 3g network works ok.
Tearing hair out!
Just want it to be reliableâŚ
Any advice appreciatedâŚ
I have also seen my imp and a co-workers imp randomly go offline multiple times per day. This started happening about 3 days ago.
Thu Jun 27 2013 14:50:28 GMT-0600 (MDT): device ondisconnect, agent was serving URL:http://agent.electricimp.com/XXXXXXXXXX
Thu Jun 27 2013 14:50:28 GMT-0600 (MDT): Power state: online=>offline
The only way to make it come back online is to cycle the power to the imp.
This happens about 2-3 times per day. I donât believe it happened before the release 25 update.
Just happened againâŚ
Fri Jun 28 2013 12:49:58 GMT-0600 (MDT): device ondisconnect, agent was serving URL:http://agent.electricimp.com/XXXXXXXXX
Fri Jun 28 2013 12:49:58 GMT-0600 (MDT): Power state: online=>offline
Weâre looking into this, but are finding it hard to replicate in any of our test environments. We have some theories, and have been testing out candidate builds with possible improvements with the help of some customers, but no success as yet.
If youâd like to help us with testing builds, please PM with details of your wireless setup (router, ISP), MAC addresses of the imps youâre using, and what youâre doing with the imp - eg, are you sending regularly from the imp, or just receiving events. We can then send you candidate builds to try and see if they improve reliability for you.
As I have noted in other threads, if you are seeing this issue on your network, running an imp with nothing more than:
imp.configure(âtestâ, [], []);
âŚand seeing if it still drops offline is a useful reference for us, as this removes many variables from the debugging.
@kenkoknz Iâm deeply suspicious that your imp dropped offline after just under 10 minutes, which implies that it did not respond to the very first server ping we sent it. This implies your code is somehow blocking processing of incoming TCP traffic. Logging does not imply that your imp is processing incoming data.
If you can PM your code then we can check that isnât the case.
So is the documentation going to be updated for Release 25.???
It is already?
Technically correct but I still see notes like this:
agent object [Imp only]
Note: this API is in beta and not currently in a public release. If you are working on a product that requires this, please contact us
Thatâs the agent beta, not release 25. The two arenât related - people were using agents on release-17