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[electricsidecar]

Yep! I have a feature planned for keeping preferences in sync across your devices but for now you have to configure each device separately.

The range widget doesn’t use the charge widget’s preferences yet. I’ll be making it so that the range widget uses the same color preferences though! The range widget admittedly hasn’t gotten as much love as the charge widget, it’s due for some updates

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[ciaranob]

Yep! I have a feature planned for keeping preferences in sync across your devices but for now you have to configure each device separately.

The range widget doesn’t use the charge widget’s preferences yet. I’ll be making it so that the range widget uses the same color preferences though! The range widget admittedly hasn’t gotten as much love as the charge widget, it’s due for some updates

I know I'm being massively pedantic (prob a senior moment ) here, bear with me, but your wording here is such that I have to ask again

You say you have to configure 'each device separately' to 'configure' say charge color settings but the only way I see to configure color changes on the Watch complications is via the Phone app i.e. you need the phone device to configure the watch device - Watch is not independently configurable - correct?

Or did you mean that the the Watch app will be getting it's own config panel and later synchronization will just ensure all are speaking to each other?

 

[electricsidecar]

Oh! Try swiping to the left on the watch app and then scrolling down This is pretty good signal that I need to make the settings page easier to find on the watch haha. Everything you can do on the phone, you can also do on the watch; the apps are essentially identical.

 

[ciaranob]

Oh! Try swiping to the left on the watch app and then scrolling down This is pretty good signal that I need to make the settings page easier to find on the watch haha. Everything you can do on the phone, you can also do on the watch; the apps are essentially identical.

I live in ignorance - had not occurred to me despite doing this nearly every day on my Workout App - KMN!

 

[electricsidecar]

v1.3-5 is now available with the following new features:

- Preferences now automatically synchronize between the phone and watch. If you change a preference on the watch, it will sync to your phone, and vice-versa.
- All widgets now adopt the color preferences.
- It's now possible to export vehicle data.

If you have a non-Taycan vehicle and would like to see more support for it in Electric Sidecar, you can use the new vehicle data export feature to share the data that your car makes available, and I'll be able to wire up features for the model. You can share the exported data to [email protected]. You might be surprised at the data your vehicle provides!

Video of the preference sync feature:

And the flow for sharing data:

 

[electricsidecar]

Working on adding support for the Panamera thanks to data shared by a Panamera 4 E-Hybrid owner! Every vehicle will get its own custom-designed icon that will appear in all widgets. Also going to be adding widget support for fuel and oil levels for PHEV and connected conventional vehicles.

If you have a non-Taycan Porsche and would like support for it to be added to Electric Sidecar, you can use the new vehicle data export feature to share the anonymized data to [email protected]

 

[electricsidecar]

Electric Sidecar (v1.3-6) now supports Porsche E-Hybrid vehicles. The Panamera now has its own custom icon to celebrate this new functionality.

Additional changes:
- The battery charge graph now uses your charge color preferences.
- Widgets on the lock screen are now brighter.

Have a Porsche model that's not reflected in the app? Share your anonymized vehicle data via [email protected] and a new vehicle icon will be made for your make

Various layouts:

 

[electricsidecar]

Working on a new automatic trip logs feature

Thoughts on the design / feature set?

 

[IanG]

That trip log looks great! Thanks for continuing to work on this!

Not a big deal, but even on the most recent version I don't see how to get both the SoC and Range on the same small widget as in your first 2 screenshots above?

Thanks again!!

 

[electricsidecar]

That trip log looks great! Thanks for continuing to work on this!

Not a big deal, but even on the most recent version I don't see how to get both the SoC and Range on the same small widget as in your first 2 screenshots above?

Thanks again!!

Which widget form factor are you wanting that in? There’s currently only a charge and a range widget, and only the charge widget is available in the larger Home Screen form factor. Happy to add a more comprehensive widget though if charge + range in one is desired!

 

[electricsidecar]

Which widget form factor are you wanting that in? There’s currently only a charge and a range widget, and only the charge widget is available in the larger Home Screen form factor. Happy to add a more comprehensive widget though if charge + range in one is desired!

Adding range to the larger charge widget is probably completely reasonable as well ?

 

[IanG]

Electric Sidecar (v1.3-6) now supports Porsche E-Hybrid vehicles. The Panamera now has its own custom icon to celebrate this new functionality.

Additional changes:
- The battery charge graph now uses your charge color preferences.
- Widgets on the lock screen are now brighter.

Have a Porsche model that's not reflected in the app? Share your anonymized vehicle data via [email protected] and a new vehicle icon will be made for your make

Various layouts:

sorry for the confusion - I thought the widget icon in these screenshots was a combined version of the two I have on my lockscreen:

 

[electricsidecar]

Trip logs!

Electric Sidecar v1.3-7 now shows your car's trip logs. See each trip's distance traveled, average speed, and average energy consumption. Electric Sidecar can also show battery status for a given trip using your on-device battery history. Battery history will only be available for trips made since installing the Electric Sidecar app and at least one widget.

Other improvements:
- Fixed legibility of battery history labels.
- See your latest trip on your vehicle's home screen.

Example screenshots:

 

[MrBlueSky]

Excellent!

 

[dws_ch]

Looks really nice and will be practical

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