Interested in an unofficial Apple Watch app?

[electricsidecar]

Is Phone widget already available?

Yep! There’s a small phone widget form factor. If you’re not seeing it, sometimes you have to delete the app and reinstall it for iOS to pick up the new widget.

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[electricsidecar]

 

[B61]

Just deleted & reinstalled, still don’t see widget.
I don’t know how/where to get to screen as you posted.

 

[electricsidecar]

Make sure you’re on v1.3-3, and then do this flow:

Tap and hold for wiggle mode

Scroll to Sidecar:

Tap to add the widget:

 

[B61]

Got it
thx

 

[McgR]

I set the colors to 20% red 20-85 green 85 -100 blue and it works.

ps thanks for adding the written colors. I am colorblind And this does make it easier.

 

[ciaranob]

Is Phone widget already available?

Yep!

 

[B61]

Yep!

I know… thx to @featherless I learned that I was searching for widgets on wrong place(s)
iOS is … like o box of chocolate. You never know what’s behind

 

[electricsidecar]

All good I think I’m going to add a guides section to the https://electricsidecar.app website and within the app because there’s quite a few flows on iOS that aren’t super obvious (like the fact that you can pick which vehicle a given widget is showing info for on iOS by tapping the widget while in wiggle mode).

 

[TDinDC]

Thanks for your great work on this. I have more than one Porsche, but only one Porsche EV. Would it be possible to "delete" the ICE Porsche from the app? I know I could remove it from my Porsche, but I don't want to do that.

Also, if you cannot eliminate it, could you change the order on how they show up? ICE always shows up first for me.

 

[electricsidecar]

Thanks for your great work on this. I have more than one Porsche, but only one Porsche EV. Would it be possible to "delete" the ICE Porsche from the app? I know I could remove it from my Porsche, but I don't want to do that.

Also, if you cannot eliminate it, could you change the order on how they show up? ICE always shows up first for me.

Ah! Does the app work ok for the ICE vehicle? I don’t have one and haven’t been able to test the app much with it. I’d be curious to see what kind of data about the car could be surfaced in the app; does the My Porsche app show fuel levels?

But I’ve also noted your feature requests. Hiding and managing multiple vehicles will be added in a future release

 

[TDinDC]

Ah! Does the app work ok for the ICE vehicle? I don’t have one and haven’t been able to test the app much with it. I’d be curious to see what kind of data about the car could be surfaced in the app; does the My Porsche app show fuel levels?

But I’ve also noted your feature requests. Hiding and managing multiple vehicles will be added in a future release

I wish it showed fuel level! No, it just saves basic information like VIN and other non-dynamic information.

 

[ciaranob]

So far this only applies to the charge widget. I’m planning to make this color setting apply to anywhere that battery levels are shown. Preference sync between watch and phone hasn’t been built yet but is also on the roadmap For now you’ll have to configure it separately.

Ah - thought that might be the case but .....

Are you able to recreate the issue with my phone set charging 'window' of green above 40% yet the watch complication shows yellow (which is set for 15-40%) - I re-installed the complications in case a lag effect there but I am still seeing the same error and 'disconnect' re between custom color from phone to watch - but again the phone widget IS showing the correct color green for 43%! And yes, the phone and watch fully paired as in the Sidecar settings.

 

[electricsidecar]

Watch and phone don't sync preferences (yet!); they're both essentially completely standalone apps, which is intentional but does require that I build intentional synchronization mechanisms between both apps.

 

[ciaranob]

Watch and phone don't sync preferences (yet!); they're both essentially completely standalone apps, which is intentional but does require that I build intentional synchronization mechanisms between both apps.

Wait so I was obviously confused - are you saying that the 'set custom colors for charge state' dialog is only 'operable' in the phone app right now and will 'sync' with the watch at a later date, hence why I cannot currently get the color I chose in the phone to appear in my watch (but the phone widget hence works)?

Guess I answered my own question !!

PS: Still poss a separate issue though of the charge complication color (yellow) and the Range complication colors (orange) not being the same on the Watch as is?

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