Reef Angel Remote on Windows Phone 8

[thekameleon]

Reef Angel Remote has been released to the Windows Phone Store. You can download and install it from this link:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store ... bd47008765

I am looking for feedback on the app. I am targeting Windows Phone 8 right now, if enough of you are on Windows Phone 7 and intend on staying on it, then I may port it over. Otherwise I am continuing to work on the Windows 8 app.

Future roadmap:

• - Label Syncing
  - Label Editing
  - Memory Editor
  - Custom Variable to Text (i.e. a custom variable value of 1 could read "on")
  - Water Leak Detector support
  - Charting
  - Journal (i.e. log water parameters such as ammonia, nitrites, etc... so they can be charted with Reef Angel parameters)

Again, I look forward to your feedback as I intend to actively support this app and the Windows 8 apps. I may also port this to Android in the future, if there is demand.

[rimai]

Awesome!!!
I need to find someone with a W8 phone now

[bubbles]

Nice!!

Installed and works fine, will give the tires a good kick on the weekend.

Thanks a lot for the effort!

[thekameleon]

A couple of things, I am trying to figure out is how to best communicate the status of the connections to the portal and controller. I have the C and P indicators to the top right that show red for not connected and green for connected. I am going to tweak that to include yellow to mean available but not retrieving data from. If anyone has a suggestions, let me know.

Out of the future roadmap items, is there anything you would like added or prioritized?
- Label Syncing
- Label Editing
- Memory Editor
- Custom Variable to Text (i.e. a custom variable value of 1 could read "on")
- Water Leak Detector support
- Charting
- Journal (i.e. log water parameters such as ammonia, nitrites, etc... so they can be charted with Reef Angel parameters)

[bubbles]

Few very minor things.

- label the plug board the same orientation as the relay box. #1 is top-right. Or let me choose the orientation
- feedback on refresh. it's not clear if hitting refresh fails or succeeds

Requests

- configerable alerts on the device
- live tile for parameters

If you'd like a hand please let me know, I'm a developer by trade.

[thekameleon]

Awesome thanks... I was debating that on the relay layout. I think I will add it. As for refreshing, I was thinking of having a rotating icon on top of the "C" or "P" depending where the data is coming from.

I totally get the live tiles and it is in my plans. Can you elaborate more on the configurable alerts? do you mean something similar to the Reef Angel Portal website? And when an alert happens, how do you want to be notified? Would you want alerts synced between the Windows Phone app and the Windows 8 app?

[thekameleon]

@bubbles. I just submitted a new release of the app that includes an indicator when the data is refreshing and allows for a reverse order of the relays. By default the order is reversed like the Relay Box layout... It should take a week or so to get through the submission process.

[bubbles]

Looking forward to the new release.

For the alerts, exactly like you said re: custom alerts via the portal. Maybe a toast notification every time an alert trips with an alert log in the app?

BTW: Showed the app to someone at our LFS today and their jaw just dropped.

[thekameleon]

Thanks for the feedback... Its too bad, I can't create the same functionality on other mobile platforms.

[thekameleon]

Version v1.1 just hit the Windows Phone store. The key thing it is going to do is add is an indicator of when and how the data is being refreshed (either from the portal or controller) and it will reverse the order of the relays be default there is a new setting that will allow you to flip it back.

If anyone has any issues, please let me know. The Windows 8 app should be submitted to the Windows Store by the end of this week.

[bubbles]

Got the update a couple of days ago. Very nice.

- Relay ordering looks good, don't have to mentally transpose them anymore
- Data refresh looks awesome

The following would be nice additions.

- changing the relay labels manually (I forget which devices are plugged in where)
- alerts and notifications on the device, guessing it would need to run in the background and refresh the data continuously

[thekameleon]

I am working on Sync label as we speak and will probably launch that along with the Windows 8 app v1.0 (Windows Phone 8 v1.2). Alerts and notifications, I have to think it through a bit. I think I want to integrate it with the Portal alerts, so it can sync with and interpret those rules. Windows Phone has some pretty strict rules on background processes. So I will probably tie that in with my Live Tiles update that I plan for Win8 v1.1 and WP8 v1.3.

[bubbles]

Sounds good. I can beta test the win8 app on my tablet if you need a hand.

[gomer23]

Is this app still under development? I might be getting a windows phone this week.

[thekameleon]

Its already in the Windows Phone Store

[GiraffeCat]

What is the "P" in the corner next to the "C"?

[newtoke]

P stands for Portal, C stands for Controller. They tell you were the data is coming from. It will always try to default to the controller, unless one is not specified or unavailable

[GiraffeCat]

To whoever made the WP8 App - Thanks! Nice to have this available!

Late,
GC

[newtoke]

You are welcome... I intend on making the noted changes some time this year as well as put out the Windows 8 app... Before Christmas I hope.

[GiraffeCat]

I would like the ability to label all of the relays, would be a brain space saver. I don't have my dimming expansion yet, so I don't know if possible to just tap the graph or something to dim/brighten easily. Would be nice to if not currently possible.

As for what I would most like at present - An Ad Free Version! I dislike the add at the bottom taking up relay box command room. I would not mind tossing in a few bucks to the creator of the app for no ads! Just my $0.02 on the matter.

Thank you again for the app,
GC

[Kungpaoshizi]

Yay!
Waiting for my unit atm, but should be able to check this out soon. I was thinking about a desktop application as well, or an html 5 webpage.. The more I think of though, the more it seems many things are already done

[binder]

Yay!
Waiting for my unit atm, but should be able to check this out soon. I was thinking about a desktop application as well, or an html 5 webpage.. The more I think of though, the more it seems many things are already done

well, some may be done but they may not be current. for example, my java app is not up to date with the new changes but my android app is.


Sent from my iPad mini

[Kungpaoshizi]

Android coded in c++?

[binder]

Android coded in c++?

it's coded in java.

Sent from my Moto X

[GiraffeCat]

Can the fancy UApp that everyone loves get ported as a Windows 10 App? I am parked in front of a pc all the time.

Dan