Today we're launching Notecarrier CX, a new member of the Blues Notecarrier family that's aimed squarely at embedded and IoT developers who desire reduced complexity while accelerating their prototype process.

Notecarrier CX is essentially a Notecarrier X combined with a Blues Cygnet in one board, available for only $17.50. This initial version is available as a BETA product. Check out the Notecarrier CX datasheet and then pick one up in our shop.

Notehub now provides a more detailed view of satellite data usage at the device level. From the Usage tab on any device, you can see a breakdown of uplink and downlink bytes, packet counts, and how actual bytes compare to billable bytes.

This view shows data usage from Starnote for Skylo, as well as our upcoming Starnote for Iridium and Notecard for Skylo products. Try it out!

Managing Notefiles in Notehub just got easier. In the Notehub UI, a new Notefiles tab gives you a single place to view and manage outbound, inbound, and database Notefiles for your devices. In the Notehub API, a new List Notefiles endpoint makes it possible to do the same programmatically.

See the new functionality in action in this short introductory video:

Two new Notecard firmware versions are now available: 11.1.1, our latest developer release, and 10.1.1, a release candidate of our upcoming 10.x LTS.

Both versions include initial support for Notecard for Skylo, support for Notecards with Telit Midband (LTE Cat-1 bis) modems, numerous NTN improvements, and more.

The full release notes are available in the Notecard Firmware Updates documentation. To update your devices, see Updating Notecard Firmware. 

A number of new Notehub features are live and ready for you to test today:

• Data usage reports: We've made it even easier for you to track and report on both data and event usage (with trends!) Look for new charts on your device’s Usage tab.
• Watchdog events: Notehub can now proactively alert you when a device has gone quiet for longer than expected at the fleet level.
• There also a new Snowflake route, improvements to how we handle host firmware management, and new ways of testing JSONata transforms.

Read through The Latest from Notehub for a rundown of all the new features.

Today we're excited to introduce the beta release of Blues Expert, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Blues Expert turns your LLMs (Large Language Models) into a virtuoso that understands the Notecard & Notehub APIs, best practices, and can help you build Notecard-based IoT applications faster and with greater confidence.

Read our announcement blog post or watch our video tutorial to get started.

Today we’re excited to introduce personal access tokens for authenticating with the Notehub API.

With this update, you can create and manage up to 10 tokens from a new API Access section in the Notehub user interface. When creating tokens, you can optionally set an expiration date, and at any time you can suspend or delete tokens as needed.

Personal access tokens carry the same permissions as your Notehub user account, so treat them with the same care as you would a password or other sensitive material.

If you’re previously used the Notehub API’s /auth/login endpoint to create access tokens, those tokens will automatically appear in your personal access token list. If you’ve previously created more than ten tokens, only the 10 most recently used will remain, and the rest will be removed. Notehub’s /auth/login endpoint has been deprecated since 2023, and we plan to remove the endpoint on December 1st, 2025.

Learn more about personal access tokens in Authentication with Personal Access Tokens, and if you have any questions about this change feel free to reach out in our community forum.

Two new Notecard firmware versions are now available: 9.2.3, our latest developer release, and 8.2.2, an updated release in the 8.x LTS series.

Both versions include a new max argument for the note.add request, a new file.clear API, a new sync argument for the var.set request, along with various bug fixes and minor improvements.

The full release notes are available in the Notecard Firmware Updates documentation. To update your devices, see Updating Notecard Firmware. 

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our new “Midband” Notecard Cellular, based on the LTE Cat-1 bis protocol. Midband Notecards use less power and are less expensive than our Wideband Notecards, use a single antenna design, and are supported everywhere LTE is already available.

We can’t wait to see what you build with them. Read more about LTE Cat-1 bis on our developer blog, and then pick up a midband Notecard Cellular in our shop today.

A new developer release of the Notecard firmware, version 9.1.1, is now available.

The new version includes support for variable-length numeric arrays in Note templates, numerous reliability and efficiency improvements, and a variety of bug fixes.

The full release notes are available in the Notecard Firmware Releases documentation. And if you want to update to the new version, check out our documentation on Updating Notecard Firmware.