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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Hi.

Yes I think it does, so if I understand this correctly if the value is positive (above 0) the value is in PSI, if the value is negative it will be inches of mercury.

I think this is the problem, Torque reports only one unit for a gauge (PSI) in this case, but when the value goes below 0 it will feed another unit. If there are unit conversions involved, that will throw a spanner in the works. Give me a couple of days and I will get to the bottom of this, I have just started porting the Speed cameras database to be incorporated in the app. I have sent at least a dozen of emails to blitzer.de, even asked help of other German speaking members to help communicate in German with them, so they add 2 small changes which would enable to display speed warnings in the correct units and also show the speed limits, but they keep going on round and round that they do not want their app to be sold anywhere else than Google Play... (it's like speaking to the walls) which forces my hand to do it DIY.... Once I do that I will get this issue sorted as well, otherwise I will try to do to many things at the same time and I will end up messing things up, not to mention that I'm updating my other app (HUR) to support Android Auto in 1080p (yes with the latest release of AA ver 2.7 you can now have 1080p/30fps resolution)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] halfnium:
No rush Emil. You are doing good things - and I and others appreciate the effort. Our suggestions are meant for product improvement, but implement what you can - when you can.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
I think you can move the last beta to stable section as you will do now the new camsam integration.

Or what do others think? I see no special problems.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scoobdude:
This is because boost is read in psi for boost and it sounds like your setting us to have vacuum read as in/hg. This app only does psi as a negative and positive value. Not sure if that will change in the future though.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] WarBird87:
Emil,

It's not a huge deal with the boost / vacuum now that I K ow it's only reading psi, I am not worried.

If you can add a dual reading Cool, but if not, it's not a huge deal.

You have done awesome things with this app and I love it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Emil

You wanted me to remind you about implementing another screen for engine codes with the option to clear.

I understand there are other more pressing issues and improvements that are needed at this time.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] themefw:
Excuse me very much. I must have made a mistake.

Today I tried again to connect my smartphone according to instructions. I noticed that "Unknown sources" was no longer selected. I chose "Unknown sources", now it works!

Thank you very much for your support!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Hi.

No problem at all happy to read it's all working now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ahpigsy:
Hi, just found this app today. Purchased, installed and worked straight away on my Galaxy S8 in a 2017 Ford Focus RS running Sync3. Excellent work. Have been looking for a way to see my Torque gauges on Sync3 for some time now.

Looks like it's still in early development, but I do have some feature requests. I'm asking as I don't have time to read through 50+ page threads.

Torque gives you dials that have min/max values saved. Can you include that.

What about the ability to use the actual gauges Torque uses.

I would be happy to pay a higher price if these options could be included.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Version 2.0 Alpha!!!

Hi guys ok, this is the very first attempt to port the speed camera warning into the app, so it should not rely on CamSam any more. Probably there are quite a few bugs/errors which I haven't catch, thought about so please use it with caution. Do not rely on the accuracy of the warning too much, better said not at all, try to check against know places / cameras / etc and see how accurately is the app warning you.

- Currently the app will work in full online module (eating up about 100kb of data every 5 minutes, and about 5Mb once in 7 days)

- Currently audio warning for speed camera should use phone speaker so when you do hook up your phone to the car make sure you give it a bit of volume.

I haven't really made any changes which are Torque or Gauge related in this release, I focused solely on getting the speed cameras ported.

Let me know about your findings.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Hi, thanks for the feedback please see my answer between your lines.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
Wow, Emil. Really appreciate your work. This weekend I'm away. I will instantly install the alpha tomorrow to check it on Monday against all known cameras on my road to work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ahpigsy:
I'm sorry you may have misunderstood me. I'm trying to emulate what torque allows which is displaying the max and min recorded values for a PID. For example on a RPM screen you may rev your car to 7250rpm. That value is reported as a max value in the centre of the gauge. Also when using a needle a 'tell tale' image is left at the maximum value reported.

Also some incremental values to be displayed on the gauge. Like values at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. Maybe more incremental values for gauges such as speed and rpm. Lastly I'd request is more gauge designs. Maybe some icons for temp, boost, All else looks excellent.

I'm involved with quite a large car group. I'm sure others would like to look at this app. Am I ok to recommend it? Or do you want to develop it more first?

cheers,

Rob.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
Hey Emil. Tried the alpha now. Was on a 100 km drive home. Best way to check.

At first you need to make an option, if we need all alerts from the databases. For me I only need camera warnings. There are also warnings for traffic jam and for building on the streets. So on this onehundred kilometers, it warns every five kilometers for something. (That's why I dislike German Autobahn)

Camsam makes option for mobile cameras, fixed cameras, warnings, traffic jams and the working on the streets.

Please have a look at the original settings in their app and let us choose, too. I've disabled the alarm. Probably you can add alarm to notification only, vibration, sound, sound and vibration. This would be on the cosmetics site but really useful.

As of the working: I've had so much notifications from the database, that I can't really concentrate on it. Sees two speed cameras, but I don't know if there are more. Checked it against the waze database while driving and seems to be good.

But two cameras (of five on this drive, all static) weren't shown.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] m00n61:
Used it for about 200 km today.

Speed camera warnings are now way better - come up more often as you approach the speedcamera position.

Found some sort of glitch - not really sure what happens but one of my dials is GPS altitude. If I choose the plain text type (the first dial type option) I no longer get the altitude text as before but an empty dial with the needle and no actual info. If I switch to one of the colored dials the info is displayed.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Hi Rob.

I do intend to develop it further and add more gauges, more design etc, based on request and based on my time/shortlist some things will get higher priority than others. At the moment, the focus is mainly in the speed camera warning, which although has nothing to do with OBD2 I consider very important while driving (especially if you have a heavy feet... :D ).

You are ok to recommend, version 1.6a is stable and usable on day by day basis, beta/alpha channel usually contains the new stuff which is being worked on (new translation, new features, new design,. layout etc).

Also as I said a few post earlier I'm happy to add designs from other users as well, I have showed a template on what elements should be included in the layout design.

As of custom gauges (temp) you can choose your own background (individually for each gauge) in the beta version 1.7 so I think that checks that box.

I haven't use the max and min recorded thing in torque I will check how it looks/work and I will add it to the list of things which needs doing.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Ok, I'll take a note of that, can you send me the lat,long of those 2 cameras please, and the route you were driving (in a private email) so I can simulate it so see.

For time being I defined a camera viewing angle as 50 deg with a view radius of 15 meters which I'm checking against the heading of the car and give a 10 meters tolerance, this values can be tweaked (and probably will need a bit of tweaking) but it's relatively a fine margin because increasing the sensitivity too much, will mean that you will get too many false warnings as well.

Currently I have the following grouping of cameras:

1) Speed

2) Traffic/red light

3) Section (average speed) camera begining

4) Section (average speed) camera end

5) Tunnel entrance

6) Danger (everything else in one)

I will separate them even more and add some options which ones should be displayed as alert and which not.

I also did some driving today and it worked quite well (all know cameras picked up) so for the first attempt I'll say it's not that bad :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Thank you for the feedback I will look into the dial issue, I haven't really done too much about dials lately since I was working on the camera issue.

And there are only 2 weeks left till my holiday so I really want to get things stable before I go on holiday...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
Yupp! Definitely great for the first shot. I must say, that I used Waze this drive, because I don't want to get trapped without blitzer.de :) But so it was a double check.

Are you using lockito? Will try to make a fake drive too and hopefully could send you the drive.

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@emil Borconi Just for my tests: is it possible, that there are no visible warnings when using on smartphone mode of Android auto? I have a notification on my smartwatch, but can't see a notification on screen there. It's limited on smart, isn't it?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Goon818:
Yesterday I tested the alpha version. After the Install I cannot open the OBD2AA window in AA. The App switch back to the AA Main Window. I have not installed the Blitzed.de (CamSam) app. Perhaps this was the problem.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
With Alpha you do not need the CamSam (Blitzer.de) app, please send me a log and I will have a look on why it's crashing.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Goon818:
Okay. I will install the alpha again. You will get the report from me.

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Okay, now it works. Perhaps I have make a reset from the cache, yesterday.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jb.traveller:
Hi Emil,

While waiting to enter Sainsbury supermarket for traffic lights to go green the red light camera was constantly warning, even when in the supermarket it continued warning. Is there anyway just to warn once as I had to disconnect the phone as it was driving my wife mad. :D

Thanks

I had unticked the launch CamSam but not uninstalled them.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Hi.

Yes going to improve all this things... ideally it should warn you 3 times, once when you are far away, once more prominent when you are closer and once when you are got-them-close :) but I saw that on occasions it's warning too many times (audio) so I'm going to investigate and fix.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Sorry for being silent for about 2 days, while getting the speed camera warning to work I had another thought of something which is missing from Android Auto (at least in my opinion) a small "information" card on the home screen which shows you the current street and current speed limit, so I spent some time investigating how can this be achieved.

Getting the current street name it's easy and straight forward, however getting the current speed limit isn't

There are providers which offers you this (Here Maps, Google Maps, TomTom, etc) but they charge and arm and a leg and a bit more for it, the cheapest one starts at around 49 euro/month and it has a limit of 100k queries which is nothing, since I need to updated the speed info every few seconds, if all the users start doing that the 100k queries will be used up in no-time... and the next level up already costs 119 euro / month with only 250k queries...

So unfortunately I cannot use any of this big brand providers for this.

The other option is to use OpenStreetMaps, this is much better because it's free but it doesn't have as much speed info as the big names and again, they won't really allow so much traffic hitting their server, so currently I have deployed a small area of UK to my server for testing purposes, and I was able to set up everything in order to get this info displayed (see attached picture) nicely.

I still need to tune my server to coop with a quite large amount of traffic/queries and I still need to deploy an over 60Gb of data to it, which will take some time, but I'm planning to offer you realtime info when driving (even if not navigating).

On a separate note a big thank you to [MENTION=6169398]mabadse[/MENTION] for the Spanish translation next release will have that added as well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jb.traveller:
Emil, You never stop. Thank you.

Just one thing your speed cameras aren't directional not that I am worried about that as it gives a heads up when one is in the area.

:D :D :D
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
They are actually, the question is how well I'm handling (or not handling) it.

The current logic is that I create a triangle of the camera (which has a viewing angle of 50 degrees) and the 2 sides set to 15 meters, so that is the "catchment" area of the speed camera which is matched against the trajectory of the car based on the bearing of the gps. There is a 10 meters tolerance here as well so it is possible that due to the relatively big tolerance camera gets reported even if it's for the other lane, and this is one logical problem I'm facing, I can reduce this, or fully ignore cameras which have the opposite (direction) bearing, but how can I distinguish between a camera which is set to monitor the traffic from the other direction and a camera which is set to monitor you from behind...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jb.traveller:
I never thought about how it's done just that PocketGPS speed data and upto last year Tom Tom speed data just worked. I am sure you can sort it but like I said for me it's not something to worry about.

Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
Wow Emil. The idea with street name and the speed limit is awesome. If you can do this, I will be very happy.

Have you had a look how many traffic it takes for the use?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
No not yet, but I'm planning to set the app to check once every 5 seconds, meaning one device will do 12 pings to the server per minute, data transmitted over one ping is about 25 bytes for the request and maximum 7 bytes for the answer, so very roughly it will need about 32 bytes of data at each 5 seconds, which translates 384 bytes of data per minute, 22.5 Kb/hour.

This value is data used by the each phone for the SPEED info bit, I'm not sure how much data is actually the Android Geocoding API use to get the street name, I'll guess it will have some cached data and it will also use online data for this but the documentation of the api doesn't say anything about how much data usage are we talking about however I'm pretty sure it's not much more than above example.

As of server capacity, currently we are talking of about 500 users, but I'm expecting the base to grow, admittedly not everybody will use the app at the same time, so assuming that one 5th does use it at the same time, it's still only 100 users hitting my server 12 times per minute (1200 connections) which is a very low number for now, but I'm not planning to build something which cannot be scaled up easily in the future, hence deciding to do all the hard work on server side and implement my own one, rather than rely on other options.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] birdbrainuk:
Just to add my thoughts to how the camera alerts should be reported.

Before finding your app and Samcam I used a GPS based camera detector. The key points in this that I felt were better than Samcam are as follows.

1. Distance to reported camera could be set by the user (1km is way to early and leads to excessive reports). Additionally the distance could be set based on the speed of the camera. ie a 70mph camera warns earlier than a 30mph camera.

2. Visual warning always shows but audio warning is only sound if speed of camera is exceeded. (Again user option for this should be straight forward)

3. My phone is also still mounted and visible so currently using to show Samcam screen as it is nice to see camera speed clearly. Currently android auto notifications are not as clear and draw my gaze from the road to see all the detail.

Only my thoughts. Keep up the good work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
I agree with what you say and yeah the idea is to give a lot of customization option to the user because everybody is different, you will like to have alerts only in 500 meters others will like to have them in 2 km, so defenetly customization is the end objective, but first I want to make it stable without customization and then add all the to the mix.

As of the icons, I know but I do not know why. The same icon looks pin sharps and nice outside Android Auto (on the normal notification) but in AA the icon looks pixelated...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
I've found out that the original camsam reportings where a bit more intrusive. I think the camera angle was bigger. I always have to drive more straight to the camera or it will be missed.

Have you had a look over my two totally missed cameras?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
No not yet I had some work which needed to be done today and I fiddled around for quite several hours with how to get speed / street info and also studied and learned how to clone OSM database....
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Emil

Low fuel warning at what percent or level should it display at? I have tried all three options and at less than 10% left I still do not see a warning.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Not in front of my pc now but if I recall correctly it's 5% or 50 miles. Try setting your car profile to 4% fuel tank and check if you see the warning.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bggold:
Still nothing. Any chance it can be user set like engine temp for %?

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scoobdude:
Just want to add some more. The other day my boost hit 18psi and that warning I had set was awesome. And it's nice that the card stays on the home screen in AA.

A feature request besides the min and Max already suggested is to have the engine temp warning done by engine temp. While you have this already my car does not register that pid. But it has the Kia addon cvvt oil temp I can pull from. Is this something that can be implemented?

Keep up the good work.

Also what elm device is everyone using? Do you have any issues with it staying on after you turn off the car? Mine has an on off button but wanting to upgrade

Lastly, does anyone know how to find pids? I can't find the tpms info anywhere for my car. I don't mind digging though, just need some direction.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] birdbrainuk:
Sorry to say that it may not be possible. In my attempts to find the PIDs for my Skoda I found out that most cars do not have pressure sensors. They use the abs system to look at comparative wheel rotation speeds between wheels.

In short they guess pressure loss without an actual reading it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scoobdude:
Thanks for the knowledge. I'm not giving up though as I have confirmed my car has sensors. All cars in the us have to have a tpms system if they were manufactured after 2007. Sadly my car only tells me a tire is low but I have found the pids for some of the older cars off the same brand showing temp as well and some even show battery state. If I can find a good guide I'll see if I can look to it it have Emil post it in the OP.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
I'll second, that the cameras are also shown from behind
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Bumped the Alpha version, here are the changelogs:

- Changed camera detection algorithm

- Possibly fixed annoying repetitive sound warning for same camera

- Added "Street info" card (displays current street name and speed limit if known) on the home screen.

Important note on the street card info, it is a very costly operation to get the speed limit (on the server side) therefore the logic behind the street card info is as follows:

- Card info will be updated once every 5 seconds, but only if a distance of at least 200 meters have been made, therefore it is possible that when you are stuck in traffic and you turn from street A to street B the info won't be updated for a while till you travel the required distance for the app to actually trigger an updated. Let's face it if you are stuck in those lovely traffic jams (stau) you don't really care what the hack is the speed limit anyway.... :) you are probably trying to avoid having a road-rage scene :)

No haven't work on any other aspects of the app at time being.

Also as my holiday is getting relatively close I'm currently under pressure to get a few things finished before (not app development related) so I will need to scale back a little the amount of time I'm dedicating to this project (have been working on this almost non-stop in the last month or so)

Give the new Alpha a try and let me know how well it's catching the cameras please.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Will consider, I have checked it today and it is like I said 5% or 80 km (50 miles), but you need to select which PID to monitor.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Sorry, probably not, I need to tell the script which PID to monitor, and on our KIA's we do have a custom CVVT oil temp, but that it's a custom pid and might be different on other cars and try to crumble in all the PID selector thing there it's too much of a hassle, sorry for disappointing...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emil Borconi:
Should be better in today's Alpha, have a look and let me know..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FormelLMS:
Yay, I'll do. I'm definitely hot on the progression.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] scoobdude:
First off, you have a Kia? Damn they have come along way.

2nd, no worries. It was just a suggestion. Thanks for at least responding. You are doing an awesome job on all this. Keep it up.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Pyrres:
Thanks a lot. Finally someone made it possible. I always hated how my car didn't have certain gauges. Now I can have them all. Only problem is that number 4 gauge is always jumping like crazy with values. It's like a bad strobe light. All the other gauges work OK and using the same Pid in different gauge works fine. So I'm currently running it in 5gauge mode skipping the 4 gauge and it shows the same number value as number 5 gauge but without text. Torque app shows correct values the whole time.