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[electricsidecar]

Yay!

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[IanG]

almost makes me want to buy an apple watch

 

[Y1BDB1]

My app wasn’t working this morning either but it just updated to build #23 and it’s working again. This is a great app and I love it on my watch. So easy to start preheating my car and it’s great to be able to see the charging power. It puts Porsches app to shame.

 

[electricsidecar]

Working on a refresh of the Watch app's UX with the new watchOS 10 design language. A sneak peek:

 

[electricsidecar]

Tuning the buttons to feel a bit more lively

 

[electricsidecar]

v1.4.0-24 is out now with a completely overhauled watchOS interface for the app! The app's been redesigned to take advantage of the new watchOS 10 design language, making it much easier to navigate through the app and get access to important actions more intuitively.

If you only have one vehicle in your garage, the app will default to showing that vehicle's watch face. If you have multiple vehicles in your garage, there's a new summary view that lets you quickly glance through the state of each of your vehicles.

As part of this change I've also redesigned the detail pages for vehicles on the watch. Each screen of the car's details now focuses on elevating data in a way that's quick to scan and understand; no more drilling through endless lists of info to find the details you're looking for!

Hope you enjoy this update!

 

[ciaranob]

v1.4.0-24 is out now with a completely overhauled watchOS interface for the app! The app's been redesigned to take advantage of the new watchOS 10 design language, making it much easier to navigate through the app and get access to important actions more intuitively.

If you only have one vehicle in your garage, the app will default to showing that vehicle's watch face. If you have multiple vehicles in your garage, there's a new summary view that lets you quickly glance through the state of each of your vehicles.

As part of this change I've also redesigned the detail pages for vehicles on the watch. Each screen of the car's details now focuses on elevating data in a way that's quick to scan and understand; no more drilling through endless lists of info to find the details you're looking for!

Hope you enjoy this update!

For those who might need to know I had to re-attach/re-load the app to my watch for this latest update but worked like a charm - really like the new interfaces and entirely agree that a step up in respect ease at which to access all the features. Great stuff as always!

 

[bn8959]

Looking great! The only thing I have spotted is that its reporting all 4 tyres are 37.7psi - I doubt they are all exactly that. Might just need a refresh - but I think Porsche are having another service issue, as I cant see the status via the web portal currently.

 

[bn8959]

Looking great! The only thing I have spotted is that its reporting all 4 tyres are 37.7psi - I doubt they are all exactly that. Might just need a refresh - but I think Porsche are having another service issue, as I cant see the status via the web portal currently.

Or maybe its just a bar->psi conversion issue? Perhaps there isnt 0.1psi accuracy and its just the closest psi value being converted and ending up with that figure? I see your screenshots also show 37.7. It would be really interesting to know the pressure down to 0.1psi, but I suspect the TPMS is not that accurate.

 

[electricsidecar]

Yeah the PSI thing is a bit odd, I'm going to take a look into why the numbers seem so inconsistent there; almost certainly a conversion issue.

It also seems like Porsche Connect is down at the moment. Given that this seems to happen every Tuesday for ~6 hours, I'm going to go ahead and conclude that Porsche Connect probably does server deployments on Tuesday mornings PST ? Usually resolves itself within ~6 hours or so.

 

[NeilJ]

This app is great. Just one thing - since the most recent update the trip information doesn’t appear on my watch (it is on my phone). Is there anything I should be doing to get it to re-appear?

 

[electricsidecar]

This app is great. Just one thing - since the most recent update the trip information doesn’t appear on my watch (it is on my phone). Is there anything I should be doing to get it to re-appear?

Ah good catch, I wasn’t sure if anyone was using the vehicle trip data on the watch. I can add it back in! To help me tune the interface, how do you like to use the data when looking at in on your watch?

 

[electricsidecar]

This app is great. Just one thing - since the most recent update the trip information doesn’t appear on my watch (it is on my phone). Is there anything I should be doing to get it to re-appear?

Added a link to be able to see the vehicle trip data in the next version that will go out, but I plan to revisit the overall trip UI on the watch once I find a good way to merge the on-vehicle trip data with the trip logger built in to Electric Sidecar.

 

[bn8959]

Added a link to be able to see the vehicle trip data in the next version that will go out, but I plan to revisit the overall trip UI on the watch once I find a good way to merge the on-vehicle trip data with the trip logger built in to Electric Sidecar.

Seeing a faw few crashes in this latest version. Crashes for me when tapping 'Your journey' now. Ive submitted crash reports. Had a few background crashes too.

 

[electricsidecar]

Seeing a faw few crashes in this latest version. Crashes for me when tapping 'Your journey' now. Ive submitted crash reports. Had a few background crashes too.

Will take a look, thank you for the reports!

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