Version 1.9.0¶
This is our largest release so far. Until now the portal described a station by how many dispensers it had. It can now hold the real equipment behind that number, and stations can report much more than whether they are available. Your account, your stations and your existing data are unchanged, and integrations already sending us data keep working exactly as before.
Your station's real equipment, in the portal¶
A new Station layout tab shows the actual hardware of a station. Dispensers, the nozzles on each one, the connector each nozzle uses, which vehicle side it serves, and the storage units feeding it.
To fill it in, a guided registration wizard walks you through your station one screen at a time and turns your existing dispenser counts into proper records. It checks the two against each other as you go and tells you in plain language where they disagree, so you can be confident nothing is missing before you save.
Registering your layout is what unlocks the rest of this release. Until a station's layout is registered and reviewed, the newer information below stays empty for that station.
Products and prices you control¶
Stations sell hydrogen as products, for example 700 bar with a given share of renewable hydrogen. You can now add, edit and remove those products yourself on the Station layout tab.
This matters because prices belong to a product, not to a piece of hardware. Once a product exists, the price feed for your station can quote it. Creating or editing a product in the portal counts as your review, so prices for it are accepted straight away.
More than availability¶
The Real-time information tab now has a section per kind of signal: availability, usage, hydrogen storage and pricing. Each one shows what your station is currently reporting, when it last arrived, and how fresh it is.
Availability told you whether a station could serve a car. The new sections tell you the price per product, which fuelling points are occupied, and how much hydrogen is left in each storage unit. Everything is shown per nozzle and per storage unit rather than as a single figure for the whole station.
You can also see which data source is sending each kind of signal, promote a source from testing to live, or remove one, without going through us.
Manage your own API access¶
A new API tokens page lets you create and revoke your own tokens for our APIs, give each one a name and an expiry date, and see at a glance which are active.
When a token is issued for someone else, they receive a single-use link and reveal the token themselves. It is never shown to the person who created it and never sits in an inbox.
A new version of the data API¶
Organisations consuming our data have a new API version available. It publishes the station layout described above, and reports live status per product and per nozzle rather than per fuel type. Requests that would return unchanged data can now answer without sending the payload again, which makes frequent polling considerably cheaper.
The previous API versions are unchanged and remain supported. Nothing you have built needs to move.
Notifications when a signal goes quiet¶
If a station stops sending usage, hydrogen storage or pricing data, we now let you know. The reminders escalate rather than repeat daily, starting with a first notice, then reminders, then a final notice, and they stop as soon as the data starts flowing again. Availability notifications are unchanged.
Behind the scenes¶
The platform moved to a current version of its runtime, and recording the history of incoming signals no longer happens while a station is waiting for a reply. A slow database can no longer delay or fail a transmission. Deployments also ship considerably less data, so updates reach you faster.
There is no visible change for users from any of this.