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[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Ref: Speed Limit display and Road Name display.

Drove around for some time this Sunday Morning, with a passenger helping to looking at the Speed Limit display, and the displayed road.

Quite a few thing soon became apparent.

(1) Of you loose Cell connection, "after a time", all dies.

I had Home wifi connected in garage, when I started, and the car continued to recognise road and speed limit for some tiem (about 2-4 miles), before it stopped updating. (My WiFi range is about 100ft !!, and it was not connecting to other WiFI along route).. assume must be some caching and collection of Area data ??

(2) Went back, got phone, set Hot Spot, and tried again.

Traveled on different roads, with different speed limits.

(a) many drop out of speed limit value, for short periods, often just a few seconds.

(b) passing side streets, often the Speed limit of road we were on would blank out.

(c) Sometimes Road display changed to passing side streets and then back again when passed.

(d) Crossing any sort of Bridge, especially over a more major road, would always switch to that road and it's speed limit.

One could image that rate of change of direction and speed might be parameter that could control the degree of certainly that one was syill on the same road or not ..

It could far become VERY COMPLEX to get a stable Speed Limit value.

On some quite major roads, the speed limit display remained blank for up to 1-2 miles, while the same speed limit sign post kept appearing.

It was not apparent to me. before this test ride, that the Processing of the speed limit and road data would need to be as complex as it obviously will need to be, to produce a stable, correct speed limit display for the road being traveled.

It may need some intelligent averaging, or Integration of data, and not be so twitchy, that it keeps flicking between states, so quickly, but should rather decide to change on an accumulation of data, that would need to be confirmed to be a new stable state, before changing.

There will definitely be a compromise between Response Speed and Stability, a necessity that is not uncommon in such dynamic systems.

Obviously there is a lot more to this that it appears to be from a first casual look -- no doubt you are aware of much of this .. but now I can see how/why it acts as it does, especially when the cell reception is not adequate.

Hope this helps..

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Added 8 hours later:

Ran the same routes using WAZE. 100% rock solid, accurate Speed Limit display so issue is probably not Cell Phone coverage and Waze seems able to get the correct data, reliably (from somewhere)...

But having it as a Widget in FCC is far more powerful, if it can be made to work, and I am hoping it can :)
[Android Head-Units] abagos:
Hello, I am using the FCC Launcher for about 3 weeks and am quite happy. I have two requests, hopefully not too difficult to implement:

- An option to start applications in the background. I am using the Autostart feature for two apps (after sleep), but would like them to be put to the background immediately (i.e. not show up in the screen).

- Change the Brightness icon to a Lamp (the Sun icon can be confused with the weather icon).

Thank you in advance,

Alex.
[Android Head-Units] Petrovych:
You can use homescreen as a third app to put the first two to the background ;)

Отправлено с моего SM-G950U1 через Tapatalk
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Idea for the future of fcc

I use overlays with widgets of fcc It Will be great to have this in fcc inplemented i make a screenshot of fcc on my phone with waze.

Now i can use the widgets on all screens and all apps.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
This is a example
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Guys, what about the overall performance on the latest release (3.077)? Is it still buggy / freezing? Or is it OK now?

I need some feedback on this.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
For me the performance is good.

Only things auto start of the player is not working
[Android Head-Units] tjaller:
Hi...

How do you make the widgets stay on top of your navigation app?
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
For now i have a addition app from Playstore.

Called overlays
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Is there anyone who wants to check the new alpha?

There are almost no changes as compared to the previous version (new MiniMap styles are added).

But I migrated the app to AndroidX (link)

There were no issues in emulator after migration but I want to check this on real devices (because all further versions will be AndroidX based).

Download: fcclauncher-3.077-AndroidX
[Android Head-Units] HatManSan:
Been using the FFCL now for three weeks. Very pleased with the way I can influence some of its operations. However there are issues which with respect to its author I will call questions.

Q1. EVERY single time I start the head unit (XTRONS PA7839 stock 8.0) the DAB app starts. This drives me crazy. I d not want anything to start expect the launcher. This grates so bad I have uninstalled the DAB app. :( How do I stop this happening?

Q2. Using the FCCL music playing widget I have a great reminder of what is playing. This works very well for DAB, FM, and SD but not CD. However whenever a track changes or I change stations, a grey background with the same information appears in the top/middle of the screen. I really really don't want it there. Have I missed a setting to stop it?

Q3. I really like the mini-map feature but I find it unreliable. My location is not always accurate and it is somethings 2 miles out of date. I don't really mind as I am only interested in my current location. I have hidden the mini-map and find this acceptable but it is useful to know where I am etc. Is there a GPS only widget to show me what street I am on?

Q4. I use an iPhone 6S. I get 20Gb a month so I hotspot to the car. If I stop the car and switch off and back on the radio doesn't connect to the hotspot again unless I turn it on off and on in the phone settings. Ideas? Should I use a Wifi dongle or portable modem?

Can you implement a button pressed status, please? In other words I make a button and set the background to say grey in FCCL settings. When I press it I would like the button to go say blue whilst my finger is on it.

The FCC Launcher is the best in my opinion but these little issues bother me. I am a premium user and do very much appreciate you making this for us.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Q1: Please check Autostart options (Settings -> Autostart) especially those related to player autoplay on boot and uncheck options.

Q2: CD is not supported yet. Regarding track info go to (Settings -> Notifications) and select in the first item that you want to show those notification only in 3rd party apps (or disable notification at all by unchecking items below).

Q3: That is strange. But yes there is a separate widget called Streetname. You can put it on your home screen.

Q4: Don't know.

Suggestion: what buttons do you mean? App links or something else?
[Android Head-Units] abagos:
Hello,

The Launcher got an update today and I noticed the following problem: The time widget changes to a large font in 12H format, whatever the setting. I can't seem to be able to set it to 24H. I have tried restarting the Launcher which fixes it only for a few minutes.

I also have a couple questions on the Radio Station logos. Are there are requirements for the file types to be used, as well as the size? I have also noticed that when Spotify is being used by some other device, the icons reflect the song being played on Spotify, although I am listening on the Radio on my unit (the unit is permanently connected to the Internet).

Thank you in advance,

Alex.
[Android Head-Units] HatManSan:
HI Speedfire. Thank you for your reply. I will check those settings thanks.

With regards buttons. If I make a button graphically then use it on a background wallpaper, I then drag a widget or app into the area and change the active area size. Can I have the active area one colour when unpressed and and another when pressed?

Cheers
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
This is an issue I have always had with FCC, (ref: "FCC Player widget", set for ALL players)

If the album art and title is displaying correctly from Pandora, and is being displayed correctly in the FCC "Player Widget", and then I start another music player (say Poweramp), and Poweramp runs and is the one playing music, then FCC does not reliably detect the change and switch to displaying the Poweramp player's info.

May work if the FCC "Player widget" is used to switch players (limit 3 preset players :( ), but if a player's app Icon is selected to run from a FCC Menu then this is an issue.

Also, if the 1st player was one that had a progress bar, then when the second player becomes the active one, and is playing, the progress bar just continues to increase from the first players position, not reflecting the true progress of the new player, - and since the Artwork / Title info does not update on the next song, neither does the Progress bar -- just stays at max.

I think when the "active" player/radio changes, FCC should be able to detect that, and re-initialize the "FCC Player Widget" Artwork, Test & Progress bar to the CURRENT State of that in the new player. ( Specifically, if that second player starts or was paused at some place within a song, then when it becomes active, the Progress bar should also be initialized to that correct paused progress position.)

Note: I am selecting 1 out of about 6 different audio players from Icons on the FCC menu, and expecting the Player Widget, with the Circular Artwork display and Artist/Title text, to update on that change to the current (active) Player.

(with 6 players, I do not want to try to step through the "Player Widget" 3 player list, or select from the 3 defined text player names in that widget )

Mentioned this in some detail about 10 days ago, but at that time, as it was more Cosmetic, there were far more important stability aspects of FCC that were needing to be addressed.
[Android Head-Units] JSZESZE:
I have the same issue with time. But my problem is more with AM or PM being forced to display.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I will upload a new version with TimeWidget fixed.

Btw, I've received my Universal Remote Keys and successfully connected to my test unit... aaand

We have some promising first results :)

I hope to finish working on this during the coming days. If all goes well we will be able to teach wheel buttons with FCC's actions (without launching any other built-in action)!
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
FANTASTIC news ... so soon we should be able to evoke "Google Voice" with an addon "Universal Steering Wheel Control" :)
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
My screen is 1024 x 600 so the Circular logo in the Payer Widget is about 300 x 300.

I decided to use a Jpeg at 600 x 600 and it displays nicely.

Within that 600 x 600 I put a reference circle with a Diameter of 600, so I could ensure that any graphics I placed, were within the Circular Reference layer (then turned off that layer, when exporting as a Jpeg).

Worked well, but there is probably a more optimum size & file type ??
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
[MENTION=1633144]speedfire[/MENTION]

Version 3.078

Switching between players appears to work a little better, and the newly started players Album Image, and Artist Tile updates in "Player Widget" , when the new player is selected, but the Progress bar continues from where it left off in the old player, and does not initialize to the current players progress.

I Think the switch between players has improved, but that might still be my imagination -- seems sometimes it works correctly, and other times then arts & text may only sync when the next song rolls around

--- did you do any changes to that in 3.078 ?

Might help, and be informative, if the Player Widget or even maybe even a new Widget had the ability to display the Icon of the currently selected active Player.
[Android Head-Units] checksum123:
Hello,

Need better wifi and bluetooth state widget.

Right now, you cannot tell if bluetooth is connected or not, the icon stays the same.

Wifi icon widget should have 3 state: Disabled, Dis connected, and Connected with preferably the name of the ssid on the bottom as an option.

Maybe color state change will be nice, line red for disconnected and green for connected.
[Android Head-Units] checksum123:
I just downloaded the latest version from the play store, every time I boot up my unit the phone app starts. I have unchecked all option under autostart except, bluetooth and wifi.

I have a joying px5 unit running android 8
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Sorry. I didn't understand what happens. Can you show a video?
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
What remote do you have ? My universel remote dont work.
[Android Head-Units] jepe63:
I'v got a question , can't get the option that the sound increases and decreases with the speed, do i have to do something special ?

I 'm using it on the Atoto A6 and my gps is working fine.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
It will work when I finish this work on wheel button integration. It's just work in progress.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
This is available for Premium users only.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
And only for supported devices.
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
No i mean what remote do you have buy ;)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Some unknown universal remote.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qtDTeKFEDhpCtsZ88

It doesn't matter. Most will work.
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
-- and yellow for while trying to connect, because if it is Red, and then only green when connected, you cannot tell if it is trying to connect and is failing-- the yellow state would indicate this.

100% agree, so hopefully Speedfire can add & improve on that existing widget, when other higher priority things are dealt with.

I have to wonder how much sleep and free time Speedfire gets .. always putting in so much time and effort into making this launcher so powerful.

Big thanks

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I got this Universal One for my China Px5 -- works very well and has a good selection of buttons.

Hope this will end up being one of the "Most will work with FCC"
[Android Head-Units] Scopesys:
Spoke too soon :(

It partially works after a re-boot, but very soon, after a few Player Changes, it gets totally lagged and stops working.

Looks like it will take a focused effort to work on this and get it working correctly -- so I'll wait patiently and hope it gets looked into soon..
[Android Head-Units] checksum123:
Hello,

Here is a video... It happened at upon 3 reboot, not sure if it was related to your launcher. But it started happening as soon as I upgraded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQx8HwXTUAM

But this morning, I got into the car and started it, the phone app did not autostart.
[Android Head-Units] michalpro:
Hello

Speed vs volume and volume widget have no impact on volume on nexus 7 running marshmallow
[Android Head-Units] jepe63:
Yes , i know , i'm a premium user ;)

Where can i find the list of the supported devices ? (and if not supported how do i get on the list?)
[Android Head-Units] abagos:
Hello,

I am using the weather widget but it seems to have stopped updating. Is it reporting a forecast or current weather/temperature?

In addition, I have an API key from Openweathermap which fails and is not accepted. I am making API calls from the browser and I get a responce, therefore the key is functional. Any reason/known bug?

Thanks,

A.
[Android Head-Units] DaveHD2:
Standard Player Album Art

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction...

I have a Dasaita (Hot Audio) PX5 MTCE Android 8.0 MCU ver 2.89 with 4GB Memory running version 3.080 of FCC Car Launcher from the play store.

When using the standard player I can't get album art or tags to display within the default home screen widget. Only the file name is displayed and a microphone icon.

Both album art and tags display correctly from the standard player app itself the problem is only with the home screen widget.

Am I missing some sort of of configuration option here or is it a known problem?

Poweramp works without issue, the problem only seems to occur with the standard player in particular.

Any suggestions or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
[Android Head-Units] payoutcz:
I'd say that this is in my opinion the best MTC Android HU launcher by far. Perfect wide customization possibilities. One thing I'm missing though is the ability to synchronize contacts between MTC Bluetooth app and Android stock contacts app, because the Google Now uses for 'Call [name]' command Android stock contact list and not the MTC Bluetooth contact list, which in this case sucks and makes it impossible to use google now for voice calls.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
New beta is uploaded (3.081).

Weather widget update, on click you can change between:

- Current weather

- 3 hour forecast

- Sunset / sunrise time

- Time to sunset / sunrise
[Android Head-Units] Julian75ts:
Hi..

Please take care of my problem..

It's very annoying to restart the Unit every time i start the car

Thank you?
[Android Head-Units] pa.ko:
I would suggest this safe volume logic:

If last volume was higher then configured safe level - set safe level at startup. If last volume used was lower then use it.

startupLevel = Math.min(lastLevel, safeLevel);

Of course gave option in settings to switch this function on/off and to set safeLevel (which should be e.g. 1/4 of max as default).

As for FM Radio widget, if you have trouble to fix on/off in widget, decompile HCT widget I sent to you. It works reliably with MTCB Radio and other stock media players, so look at code there to figure out how to control MCU. I noticed they radio control is problematic not only from widget but also after BT phone call (function to resume 'player' after BT call). Radio is sometimes not resumed and sometimes when radio was off prior to BT call - it gets turned on when it should not. :)

BTW did you implement widget to start any app (and to have custom icon instead of app default one which are ugly for most stock apps)?
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
When we talk about Radio. It's a long time issue on MTCB en other devices . The widget send to you is the one you can use. Also a feature that I see on many requests is a custom shortcut link on home screen of FM radio station and shortcut on home screen from pc radio.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Nice suggestion! It is done that way now.

I've just sent a new beta:

- Added an option of setting 'safe volume level on startup' (see autostart settings)

- The lowest brightness level can now be set below 10 (you need to manually pass the test first -> see home settings)
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
Ok. I've looked at it. I can change the way next/previous radio station is changed. But as far as I can tell the HCTwidget's radio start/stop will open the radio app (will not do it in background). Is this correct? I need a background start / stop.

I don't really understand the current issues with the FCC's Player / Radio widget. All of my testers with MTCB / MTCD devices reported that the widget works fine. Can anyone upload a video + LogCat (full, without filtering) of issues with radio widget (+start/stop of your native radio app) so I can understand it better?
[Android Head-Units] Roerbakeitje:
Yes the radio app process keeps running In background. That affect the volume on other media apps.
[Android Head-Units] TT_Vert:
One thing to consider w/ this widget is that the stock widget seems to work fine the first time it is inserted. Perhaps insert widget, turn radion on with it and off then reboot and see if you can duplicate the problem.

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Where can I find this HCT widget?

Dave
[Android Head-Units] typos1:
He means the MTC widget- HCT make the SoMs and maybe develop the software.
[Android Head-Units] TT_Vert:
The stock MTC widget doesn't work for me all the time. Usually it'll turn on the radio but 9 times out of 10 it won't turn it off. Sometimes it does nothing but changes stations too. I tried using gooses modded widget as well as stock w/ same result.

Dave
[Android Head-Units] typos1:
Can you be more specific when you say "stock MTC widget" - AFAIK there are no stock widgets - what youre actually referring to is not a widget at all, it just looks like one but is actually part of the launcher. AFAIK the only proper stock MTC widget is the one in the Roximo launcher that I spoke of a few pages back.

I guess I could be wrong and they are reall launchers with functionality removed ?
[Android Head-Units] TT_Vert:
I'm sorry I'm referring to the radio widget that (I thought) comes w/ the MTCB ROM itself. It is just called Radio under widgets but honestly since it's a Malaysk ROM perhaps you are right.
[Android Head-Units] typos1:
Well it could be me thats wrong also, lol.

I forgot to mention in my previous post (although I think I mentioned it a few pages back) that there is also the KGL MTC widgets (real widgets), but each one is a separate widget ie one for radio, one for music etc, as opposed to the fake widget in the MTC launchers and the real widget in the Roximo MTC launcher which are multi purpose, ie they display radio or music or a2dp whichever is being used at the time.

Confusing init ?!

Got any pics ?
[Android Head-Units] TT_Vert:
Here is gooses modded widget.

Here is what I think to be the stocker.

Dave

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SO I went ahead and ran the brightness test and at the end it asks if I saw the image for all brightness levels 11 down to 1 but i saw nothing at all. I'll include the log in a bit. It does dim the screen however. Is this just asking if the screen is visible (Not completely blank?)

Another oddity, when I try to back up settings it doesn't give any prompt that it backed up and just goes back to the home screen. Log attached again. Looking at log it seems it did back up but want to make sure. The toast isn't there any longer.(Backup.txt)

Dave
[Android Head-Units] pa.ko:
I mean HCT Widget, as it appears in widgets. You may find it in Malaysk KK ROM and maybe in some others. Its name is HCTwidget_1.0.apk

That widget has player control on the left side, clock and weather in the middle and radio control on the right. Radio shows frequency (didn't tried with RDS off to check if it will show names from .ini file of mtc-radio xposed module).

It also has power on/off button that, at least on Mal KK, turns radio on/off without going into radio app. (But you have to precisely hit that button, if you miss it will jump into app - maybe that is why [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] had a problem)

I would like to see someone customize it. Split radio from media player and weather, and customize it's ugly graphics etc. But it has reliable functionalities and that could be reused.
[Android Head-Units] typos1:
Right, thats the MTC/HCT KGL radio only widget, one standard, one modified.

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Cam you post a pic also ? Thanks
[Android Head-Units] TT_Vert:
The odd thing is sometimes it works fine others it doesn't. Right when I place the widget it works perfectly. However without fail every time I reboot even if I install the modified widget it reverts back to the stock widget. To install i have to use the -r switch as it says it already exists so this should be installing over the top. No idea why it reverts back each time. Perhaps I should change the permissions. THis is what log says:
[Android Head-Units] typos1:
Why tyou try installing the Roximo launcher ? Then you should be able to use its widget in FCC.
[Android Head-Units] SpeedFire-:
I think that possible issues with FCC radio widget is because your particular device may have different irKeyDown codes. I need a log of enabling / disabling your native radio, switching stations on such devices. And MTCRadio.apk (if possible)