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[electricsidecar]

Got tired with deploying to the iPhone to test the bluetooth functionality, so I flipped the bit to enable Sidecar to run as a Mac app After an hour or squashing macOS build errors the app is showing a window!

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[electricsidecar]

Hah! A fair bit of work ahead to tune the platform-isms

 

[Hirschaj]

Got tired with deploying to the iPhone to test the bluetooth functionality, so I flipped the bit to enable Sidecar to run as a Mac app After an hour or squashing macOS build errors the app is showing a window!

It’s a beautiful window. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

 

[electricsidecar]

Sidebar working now. Definitely a good amount of work ahead here. Maybe I should just keep it as an empty window ?

 

[electricsidecar]

Neat! SwiftUI has an easy way to wire up Settings so they work in a standard way. Now to quickly shuffle this around to use a tab view...

 

[electricsidecar]

Very quickly seeing why Apple decided to redesign the settings UI in the latest versions of macOS: the old tab style doesn't really let you reuse any of the drill-down navigation code already written for iOS. Going to pivot this over to a sidebar UX to handle that.

 

[electricsidecar]

Oof it looks like the navigation stack isn't super well loved on macOS. Will have to explore a few options for actually building out settings because this isn't great.

 

[electricsidecar]

Not super impressed with the bugs I'm running into so far with SwiftUI on macOS. There's a fun one where sheets always animate twice on dismissal (radar filed).

Got a somewhat half-decent version of the vehicle scanner onboarding sheet working now though:

 

[smacame]

I've been enjoying the app!
I noticed that the widget and the similar display in the app have incorrect units when charging. The screenshot here shows +6kWh where it should say +6kW (kilowatt hours vs kilowatts). It would be way cool to see the energy (kW x h) put into a car during a charging session.

Thanks for developing this. I had a Rivian before the Taycan and in a lot of ways the Porsche is pretty old school by comparison (especially the charging scheduler, what a mess!)

 

[electricsidecar]

Lots of hardware testing this weekend

 

[electricsidecar]

I've been enjoying the app!
I noticed that the widget and the similar display in the app have incorrect units when charging. The screenshot here shows +6kWh where it should say +6kW (kilowatt hours vs kilowatts). It would be way cool to see the energy (kW x h) put into a car during a charging session.

Thanks for developing this. I had a Rivian before the Taycan and in a lot of ways the Porsche is pretty old school by comparison (especially the charging scheduler, what a mess!)

Ah thanks for catching that! I’ll have that fixed in the next update Glad you’re enjoying the app!

 

[ciaranob]

It would be way cool to see the energy (kW x h) put into a car during a charging session.

My ChargePoint HomeFlex AC charger provides this via it's app/WiFI - fairly sure a lot of other connected EVSE's do too. And for DC charging you just ref the receipts in the MyPorsche App.

 

[smacame]

My ChargePoint HomeFlex AC charger provides this via it's app/WiFI - fairly sure a lot of other connected EVSE's do too. And for DC charging you just ref the receipts in the MyPorsche App.

My inexpensive home EVSE can do the same (and also has a little screen right on it for showing voltage & current - cool!), but the chargers that I use at work generally don't provide any info. Charging sessions could fit in nicely on a page like this one in Sidecar (which is great, none of my previous EVs had a 'per-trip' stats page like this).

 

[electricsidecar]

Just finished doing connection tests with all of the OBDII dongles. Here's a quick summary:

VEEPEAK OBDCheck BLE
$24.95 on Amazon
BTLE capable
Comes with a practical and simple plastic case

VEEPEAK OBDCheck BLE+
$41.99 on Amazon
BTLE capable
Comes with a practical and simple plastic case

OBDII (New Bluetooth Scanner Blue)
$16.19 on Amazon
BTLE capable
No case

vLinker MC-IOS
$59.89 on Amazon
BTLE capable
Super annoying box container with no case

OBDLink CX
$79.95 on Amazon
BTLE capable
No case, but comes in a nice jewelry box container.

OBDLink MX+ (requires app)
$139.95 on Amazon
Requires an app to enable BTLE
Comes with a super fancy leather case and nice jewelry box container.

VEEPEAK OBDCheck VP01
$19.99 on Amazon
Wifi only
No case

My overall verdict from the initial setup experience with each of these is that the VEEPEAK OBDCheck BLE is the best value-for-money that I've found on Amazon (so far).

 

[electricsidecar]

Starting to design a new OBD-II plug symbol

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