Heya, Folks,

Today, we have two AI-related updates for you.

Playground: AppBlocks Mobile App Creator​

AppBlocks Mobile App Creator

At Tibbo, we’re actively experimenting with different ways of bringing useful AI functionality into AppBlocks.

Despite recent advances in AI capabilities, getting a model to reliably create meaningful, working projects from a prompt remains an elusive (albeit a seemingly close) goal. One major bottleneck is the context window size, which remains very small compared to the amount of information we have to provide.

New techniques, such as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), help inject more relevant information, and the AppBlocks team has been busy evaluating these and other emerging approaches.

To test these ideas safely and efficiently, we built a separate playground called AppBlocks Mobile (ABM).

Finally, here is one other small (but fun) addition:

The LCD Graph widget now works alongside other widgets on the screen.

IR remote emulation support is here!

Now you can record and replay IR commands right from your AppBlocks Flow. This gives you control over aircons, dehumidifiers, TVs, and other equipment — pretty handy for building automation, indoor agriculture, and many other applications.

Data Table fields now support enum options in dropdowns. Instead of seeing 0, 1, 2, you can label them LOW, MID, HIGH — or anything else that makes sense for your project — and your users will see these labels in the UI.

Finally, HTTP Request blocks can exceed 255 bytes. We had this unfortunate limitation for years, and now it’s gone.

We recently took on a challenge: to transform an automated dosing system into a fully functional, all-in-one hydroponics system. This system was built for an agricultural trade show—to highlight the features and ease of use of AppBlocks + TPS.

Heya, Folks,

It's been a while since our last dispatch, so it's only fitting that we return to actively working on the Blog with a post called "A Simple Serial Dispatcher." Apologies for being silent for so long—we've been super busy cooking up a massive update to the AppBlocks platform. This is a scope-changing thing for the entire project, so stay tuned for further announcements. As for now, let's talk about that "dispatcher."

Greetings, Folks,

You already know that the AppBlocks platform facilitates fast, code-free, visual development of IoT and Industrial Control applications.

Following this release, we now have two distinct components under the AppBlocks umbrella: the AppBlocks Designer (ABD) and the AppBlocks Cloud (ABC). The AppBlocks designer, formerly AppBlocks, facilitates fast, code-free, visual development of IoT and Industrial Control applications. The AppBlocks Cloud takes the AppBlocks concept even further by enabling the management of devices deployed in the field.

Heya, Folks,

Tibbo has just released Tibbit #62, a two-channel 1-wire/single-wire interface module.

Requiring only 2- or 3-wire cables and supporting long cable lengths, 1-wire digital temperature sensors offer a reliable, cost-effective solution for building automation, precision agriculture, industrial control, and other applications requiring multipoint temperature measurement. Where temperature and humidity sensing is called for, installers can opt for single-wire DHT11 and DHT22 devices.

Tibbit #62 features two identical individually configurable channels. Each channel can accommodate up to sixteen 1-wire sensors or a single DHT11 or DHT22 sensor.

We've already implemented comprehensive Tibbit #62 support in the AppBlocks platform. As the walkthrough above shows, adding 1-wire/single-wire functionality to your project only takes a few minutes. AppBlocks automatically generates all the code required to support 1-wire and single-wire devices, including an HTML configuration page for discovering and assigning 1-wire sensors wired to a TPS device. This web interface is an indispensable tool for connecting, removing, and servicing the sensors in the field.

You can now create workspaces for your team to collaborate in projects.

Workspaces consist of an owner, participating members, and applications that belong to the workspace.

All members can view and edit applications that belong to the workspace. Changes, however, are last write wins so we advise only one user make changes to the application at any point.