ALDLdroid

[3400tZ]

Jeff, you don't see them because they aren't in the version you have. They will be in the next version and you're guessing right, it will indeed be a "colors" section for each indicator. You have to give me some time, I just got done debugging this tonight It might need some more testing as well but we're getting somewhere I swear we're close to a release, I don't think I will add much else before it happens, just need a bit more testing to be safe.

steveo, yeah, that make a lot of sense (I thought you were a dev ?? :)). I think my plan is to keep the original color as default but let people do whatever they want. Eventually, I might come up with "scheme" or something that you can choose from and I will definitely keep that in mind for those, thanks.

[-=Jeff=-]

Jeff, you don't see them because they aren't in the version you have. They will be in the next version and you're guessing right, it will indeed be a "colors" section for each indicator. You have to give me some time, I just got done debugging this tonight It might need some more testing as well but we're getting somewhere I swear we're close to a release, I don't think I will add much else before it happens, just need a bit more testing to be safe.

steveo, yeah, that make a lot of sense (I thought you were a dev ?? :)). I think my plan is to keep the original color as default but let people do whatever they want. Eventually, I might come up with "scheme" or something that you can choose from and I will definitely keep that in mind for those, thanks.

Ah cool.. they are not in there yet.. ok.. no worries, when you release it that will be cool, I though it was already there

[steveo]

steveo, yeah, that make a lot of sense (I thought you were a dev ?? :))

haha not like this though! gui dev and design is not my thing at all.. seriously, put winapi or mfc in front of me and watch me get bored and go drinking.

but i do know what i like, what works, and ive -managed- enough projects with guis, and seen firsthand how to make them flunky.

I think my plan is to keep the original color as default but let people do whatever they want

from a software design standpoint, the default configuration and appearance of a program must make it optimal for most users within its intended spectrum of usage.

in this case the intended audience is people putting a phone or tablet on their dash and looking at them mostly in peripheral or 'at a quick glance' vision.

it's your program, but i disagree 100% with defaulting 'less than ideal' and making people select 'ideal' from a menu.

you want to be that software that is optimized for most of its audience right out of the box, you want to be the second type.

not that my color scheme is well designed either, if i needed a color scheme i'd call a graphic designer friend, but it's just an idea for how to contrast elements in peripheral vision so you can quickly glance and get the information you need with less strain and eye wandering.

[3400tZ]

Jeff, no worries, I know you've been waiting for a while for this. You was one of the first user and I remember that was one of the first feature request I got :) Well, its coming! This week-end or early next week max unless I find a big show stopper bug, I doubt it :)

steveo, I understand what you mean 100%. From my point of view, I'm not defaulting "less than ideal", I'm defaulting "what I currently have that will have to do for now". I'm really hoping someone better than me in design will come up with great color scheme that I will include in a future release, and who knows, one of them might become default! This app is like any other app out there, I know all the stuff that can be improved but there only so many hours in a day :D Always come down to that. I really wish I could do that full time but I'm not quite there yet :D

[-=Jeff=-]

Thanks man.. whenever you get to it, I just thought it was already there :)

[-=Jeff=-]

I have an issue and I am not sure what can be done about it

I have ALDLDroid installed on my Nexus 7 in my car. The Tablet has been rooted and is a fixed install in my car. Yesterday I took the car for a drive using the ALDL program, worked great and I got a nice datalog from it.

Tonight I turn the key on and the ALDL program kept the tablet awake all this time, I had unchecked the bos you suggested, but ALDLDroid held the GPS on and THAT is what sucked the battery. The only way it seems I can release the GPS is either turn off the option to use the sensors within the tablet for ALDL or Force stop the App.

Is there something you can do/ add? or am I stuck with the force stop or not using the added features?

THANKS

[3400tZ]

Hey Jeff,

So your tablet is running 24/7 and get out of sleep mode when you get in the car ? If you turn off the GPS, the battery drain is fixed ? Did you try to force stop the app but keep the GPS turned on, the drain is gone too ? Do you have any GPS related indicators on your dashboard ? I wonder if those keep refreshing while the app is sleeping and that's what causing the drain or if its just receiving the data from the Android GPS that is the problem.

A few things can be implemented but it isn't trivial

[-=Jeff=-]

I will go try it without launching the ALDL Droid app and have it go to sleep. The custom ROM is supposed to allow it to sleep. But when I checked yesterday. ALDL and GPS kept it awake. Battery is charged again so I will try it

Only indicator I see is the GPS one on the top left of the status bar. It is there with ALDL active and goes away when I force stop it. I will get more info later today

[3400tZ]

Yep, good idea, lets try that as a first step to narrow this down some more.

Version 0.46 has been uploaded to Play, here is the changes log:

- Added a new indicator style: circular bar graph
- Added a new indicator style: digital gauge (renamed gauge to analog gauge)
- Added colors saved into dashboard file, will need to manually edit the dashboard file (main.json) for now until a UI is created
- Fixed chip programming section not allowing A-F characters to be written in chip and buffer addressing
- Protect against infinite loop for "Gauge" indicator type when ADX values have same min and max values
- Fixed editing indicator not always refreshing the new indicator to current value right away
- Fixed crash on fresh install when going directly to settings to set the ADX file and back to dashboard

[-=Jeff=-]

Car sat int he garage all day, I did not launch ALDL, still at 100%

I will test it some more and let you know what I find..

Here is a picture of my set-up
IMG_20140704_165216665.jpg

[jay7199]

oh holy shit im in love with that setup.. i know my next project! I have a 93 Vette.

[3400tZ]

Looks awesome Jeff!

Did you had the GPS turned on ? If not, try with it turned on. Otherwise, I will have to start looking at what I can do.

[-=Jeff=-]

I believe it was on. But let me check. Might be a day or 2

[-=Jeff=-]

3400tZ,

So it looks like something in the ALDLDroid..

I drove the car today and did not use ALDL, and it holds the charge without issue and goes to sleep. When my Tablet goes to sleep it goes into Airplane mode first. Now I never found out if that shuts off GPS too

BUT, when the ALDL was datalogging, the round GPS Symbol was on in the upper left on the status screen, Force stopping ALDL closed the GPS. When I let the tablet sleep (so I thought) the next day ALDL said it kept the tablet awake for the length of time since I last used it and the GPS was show under use details on the Battery screen.

I know with the google maps/nav I will see the same indicator on the status screen but as soon as it is no long the focused screen it goes away. So I am not sure if there is anything easy for you to do, I have a work around for the issue I see and my other option is to disable the Android sensors as options in the settings file.

I would think there is a way to 'release' or turn off access of the GPS if not in use in an app

[-=Jeff=-]

On a positive note

Changing the colors seems to work.. now I will work on changing all the colors and post up a screen shot

Could you give me a list of all the Color 'Labels' you are using?

I might write a LabVIEW program to auto populate new colors for me, this way I can change everything and group them

THANKS