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Hi All,
This going to be a long thread, many time edited and amended. I will try to explain the YaV1 features with screen shots and text, Please feel free to correct the wording / terminology (my mother tongue not being English) ..
I suggest to have this main thread edited and amended, but maybe better to have different threads for specialization ? You to tell
I will renew the top link to the application on top of the thread, when needed.
I hope you will have suggestion for the wording / terminology. If some of you have skills in designing button / images (PNG) you are welcome. The navigation can also be better, let me know, but the first thing I wish is functionality being there for covering most of wishes.
you can download the file here:
LAST BUILD 2013-08-30 09:50:00 (Madrid / Paris / Brussels time):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/boe8y7ta7uqr9pe/YaV1-release.apk
CHAPTER I, how to start:
First you download the app, then you install with one of the many APK installer application available in Google play.
When it's first time you start the application ever, it will be asking to choose the Valentine device without scanning for it. This means you have to pair your phone with V1 before to start the app (bleutooth -> pair -> code 1234 on your phone), this will occurs only once and will look like this :
You can choose in this sample the V1-connection-xxx .. and let the app finding device, it might take 1 minute when trying to connect to V1, depends also if V1 is already started or not. Anyway after this first phase, you V1 bluetooth is recorded and will be the default one. However you can change afterward if needed.
THE BASIC 2 VIEWS OF YAV1
When starting YAV1, the first view is the following and this will be referred in the tutorial as the "Main view"
This the basic view for all the settings, by clicking the left button of the PHONE, you get access to the menu:
From the Main view, by clicking on the big Green central button you access to the "Alert view", the first time you click on Alert view, the application will try to connect to V1, but not only the V1C adapter but the V1 itself (indeed you can have everything powered, but V1 stopped, the V1C will respond ... but not the V1), this will look like this ..
There you can wait few seconds (about 5) to have the V1 connected, and the services starting up. What happen is that the first time you start the Alert view, the app starts the V1 alert service, optionally the Gps Service. The service once started they will remain running in background, next time you switch to the Main view and click the Alert view button again, they will be not waiting .. since the service are started. The alerts, and Gps, are in background and they will run as long as the Application is running.
Note: Gps part will be only visible if you enable GPS in the settings (explained latter).
When V1 is found the Alert view is this:
Now, once the services are started and found the V1 running, if you press "back" on your Phone, the same way your press back in your phone settings to switch back from "wifi" to the settings global view, you will see this (depends of the current settings on V1):
This view, shows you that V1 is connected and display the "Euro" or "Usa" mode, custom sweeps or not and the buttons to change the logic mode.
In Usa mode, you will get 3 buttons "All" (All bogeys) "Logic" (Logic Mode) "Adv" for "Advance Logic",
In euro mode without custom sweeps K/Ka (P) for K/Ka Photo, Ka (P) for Ka only Photo
in Euro mode with custom sweeps K/Ka (C) for K/Ka Custom Sweeps, Ka (C) for Ka only custom sweeps ..
The red label shows you the current mode, by clicking one of the button, the mode will change and the "Alert view" will be displayed. You can "back./esc" on the phone and see that the mode has changed and you can select another mode if you wish.
IMPORTANT: The main view is the view to access all the menu options, so when in alert view, you have to click "back" from phone (usually the right bottom phone touch) and you will be back to the "Main View" ..
CHAPTER II, YaV1 settings
I will detail all the settings for the YaV1 application (not the V1 itself)
First to access the Setting you select "Settings" from the menu, accessible from the Main view. This should look like this:
There different screens to set up the features of the application.
- General settings, for the global settings
- The box definition, boxes are frequency range per band that you can parameter to distinguish them (or filter them) in the Alert List.
- GPS parameters, using gps allow to use the lockouts / mute under speed feature.
- Muting phone alerts, if ever you use the phone "sound notification" for alerts, you can set up muting phone.
- Filter view, you can define what alert you want to filter, if ever you wish to have a filtered alert view.
- Frequency recording if you want to be able to record frequency (nothing else, such as location etc ..)
- Lockout on K Band lets you define the behaviors of lockouts.
General settings, the screen looks as follow:
- Alert theme, by default it will the "Red dot" theme, you can switch to the arrow theme, but I think, in general users prefers the dot one.
- Start looking for V1 on start, when checked the application will start the "Alert view" as soon as started, bypassing the Main view and avoiding you to "click" the green button. I suggest, for beginners, to leave it unchecked until you have defined your parameters. In any case, when pressing "back" / "esc" button of the phone you will come back to the "Main view".
- Priority alert on top of the list (default is checked). When the application receives alerts from the V1C, it can be by packets of N alerts, V1C has a flag to mark an alert as priority but the alert might not be the first one of the "packet" received. By default, and when the option is checked, the priority alerts will be places at the top the alerts in the alert view, also the name of the band will be in "Red".
- Laser alert on top, default is checked is based on same approach as the priority except that laser are also detected by the packet that described the "screen on V1", when a laser alert arrived there is a special "arrow and sound" on the V1 itself. When this is detected a laser alert will be placed on top of the list with an 8 strength. The laser alert will always placed in the alert list, but with this option it will be places on top, even before the priority one.
Note: the fact of reordering the alert can be a problem, in case of many alerts when users want to lockout, because it may change the order of an alert on K band that was already displayed. By un checking these options you have a greater chance that the order will not change.
- Alert sound on phone, with this you decide if the phone sound (notifications sound) will be used or not.
Note: the Android version prior to Honey Comb (3.0.x) have a check box here instead of the switch on/off box. Indeed switch box have been introduced with Honey Comb.
- Default alert sound, you can choose here a sound from your phone as a default alerts sound. This sound will be "played", if not muted (see later muting settings), if any other sound with higher priority are played.
- High priority alert sound, again here you choose a sound from your phone (you can even record some sounds and place the file in /media/sound/notifications folder, note that the place to store them can change depending on the android version/Rom etc ..). This sound will be played if an alert has it's frequency in a box that you have defined OR if there is no box defined for the band and the signal is > 4.
- Laser sound, you can choose also a special sound for laser alert.
Note: the priority order is Laser, High priority and default. Indeed the phone can play one sound at a time, so the top priority is played and if, because of new alerts, an higher priority sound should be play, the current sound will be stopped and the new played.
- Early laser sound on, this let the application to play the laser as soon as a laser is detected (through the display information) wihtout having to process the packet of alerts. Basically you will hear the sound few milliseconds before seeing the laser alert. It's very hard to evaluate how "soon", since it's a story of milliseconds.
All the sound comes with the "default notification sound" of the phone. Indeed I can't use other sounds since it depends of the android version, custom Rom or self made sounds.
In a future release we might be to able to define sounds per band or even per "box", we will see in future, but the concept will remain the same ..
Second screen for general settings (could not fit in one view):
- Sound on service/start stop. You can define a sound that will be played when the Alert service starts or stops. When starting it really means that the application is connected to V1 itself, not only to the V1C. I realize that you can have V1C running, and V1 stopped, so this sound means that the application has received some "packets" from V1 and the Alert service is really active. You will get the same sound when you stop the application, meaning the Alert service stop. You can also have this sound if you stop the V1, after few seconds (see below) the sound will be played and the "Waiting for V1" screen will pop up.
- Valentine timeout. The application receives continuously data from V1. Passed this number of second without receiving any data, we can consider of an error or most likely the V1 has been switch off. In such case, the V1 wait screen will appear and try to restart the Alert service. 3 seconds is the default value, that was used in the simple sample app from VR, if you get too many "V1 drop" you can try to increase by 1 or 2 seconds, but it should not need any other value.
- Record success sound, this sound is used to indicate success on a lockout or frequency recording (if you enabled these features)
- Record failed sound, this is the opposite as the above one.
The other options are switch that you can use to turn on/off features. I am actually thinking to remove them since they are also available in the feature settings screens.
To be continued ...
This going to be a long thread, many time edited and amended. I will try to explain the YaV1 features with screen shots and text, Please feel free to correct the wording / terminology (my mother tongue not being English) ..
I suggest to have this main thread edited and amended, but maybe better to have different threads for specialization ? You to tell
I will renew the top link to the application on top of the thread, when needed.
I hope you will have suggestion for the wording / terminology. If some of you have skills in designing button / images (PNG) you are welcome. The navigation can also be better, let me know, but the first thing I wish is functionality being there for covering most of wishes.
you can download the file here:
LAST BUILD 2013-08-30 09:50:00 (Madrid / Paris / Brussels time):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/boe8y7ta7uqr9pe/YaV1-release.apk
CHAPTER I, how to start:
First you download the app, then you install with one of the many APK installer application available in Google play.
When it's first time you start the application ever, it will be asking to choose the Valentine device without scanning for it. This means you have to pair your phone with V1 before to start the app (bleutooth -> pair -> code 1234 on your phone), this will occurs only once and will look like this :
You can choose in this sample the V1-connection-xxx .. and let the app finding device, it might take 1 minute when trying to connect to V1, depends also if V1 is already started or not. Anyway after this first phase, you V1 bluetooth is recorded and will be the default one. However you can change afterward if needed.
THE BASIC 2 VIEWS OF YAV1
When starting YAV1, the first view is the following and this will be referred in the tutorial as the "Main view"
This the basic view for all the settings, by clicking the left button of the PHONE, you get access to the menu:
- Settings - settings of YAV1
- Custom sweeps - settings and custom sweeps definition / management
- V1 settings, the settings of Valentine one, or can be said "User profiles"
- Devices, if ever you have change bluetooth adapter, this comes back to the same screen as first start
- About, this give you a "dirty" view of version and other information (detailed later)
- Demo mode, this plays some "recorded" alerts and let you have a view of the look. There 4 demo "scenario" available, when clicking "demo" one is choosen randomly and it last for about 1 minute. When finished it comes back to the Main screen "YAV1".
- Quit is a new option that closes every services and just leave the application.
From the Main view, by clicking on the big Green central button you access to the "Alert view", the first time you click on Alert view, the application will try to connect to V1, but not only the V1C adapter but the V1 itself (indeed you can have everything powered, but V1 stopped, the V1C will respond ... but not the V1), this will look like this ..
There you can wait few seconds (about 5) to have the V1 connected, and the services starting up. What happen is that the first time you start the Alert view, the app starts the V1 alert service, optionally the Gps Service. The service once started they will remain running in background, next time you switch to the Main view and click the Alert view button again, they will be not waiting .. since the service are started. The alerts, and Gps, are in background and they will run as long as the Application is running.
Note: Gps part will be only visible if you enable GPS in the settings (explained latter).
When V1 is found the Alert view is this:
Now, once the services are started and found the V1 running, if you press "back" on your Phone, the same way your press back in your phone settings to switch back from "wifi" to the settings global view, you will see this (depends of the current settings on V1):
This view, shows you that V1 is connected and display the "Euro" or "Usa" mode, custom sweeps or not and the buttons to change the logic mode.
In Usa mode, you will get 3 buttons "All" (All bogeys) "Logic" (Logic Mode) "Adv" for "Advance Logic",
In euro mode without custom sweeps K/Ka (P) for K/Ka Photo, Ka (P) for Ka only Photo
in Euro mode with custom sweeps K/Ka (C) for K/Ka Custom Sweeps, Ka (C) for Ka only custom sweeps ..
The red label shows you the current mode, by clicking one of the button, the mode will change and the "Alert view" will be displayed. You can "back./esc" on the phone and see that the mode has changed and you can select another mode if you wish.
IMPORTANT: The main view is the view to access all the menu options, so when in alert view, you have to click "back" from phone (usually the right bottom phone touch) and you will be back to the "Main View" ..
CHAPTER II, YaV1 settings
I will detail all the settings for the YaV1 application (not the V1 itself)
First to access the Setting you select "Settings" from the menu, accessible from the Main view. This should look like this:
There different screens to set up the features of the application.
- General settings, for the global settings
- The box definition, boxes are frequency range per band that you can parameter to distinguish them (or filter them) in the Alert List.
- GPS parameters, using gps allow to use the lockouts / mute under speed feature.
- Muting phone alerts, if ever you use the phone "sound notification" for alerts, you can set up muting phone.
- Filter view, you can define what alert you want to filter, if ever you wish to have a filtered alert view.
- Frequency recording if you want to be able to record frequency (nothing else, such as location etc ..)
- Lockout on K Band lets you define the behaviors of lockouts.
General settings, the screen looks as follow:
- Alert theme, by default it will the "Red dot" theme, you can switch to the arrow theme, but I think, in general users prefers the dot one.
- Start looking for V1 on start, when checked the application will start the "Alert view" as soon as started, bypassing the Main view and avoiding you to "click" the green button. I suggest, for beginners, to leave it unchecked until you have defined your parameters. In any case, when pressing "back" / "esc" button of the phone you will come back to the "Main view".
- Priority alert on top of the list (default is checked). When the application receives alerts from the V1C, it can be by packets of N alerts, V1C has a flag to mark an alert as priority but the alert might not be the first one of the "packet" received. By default, and when the option is checked, the priority alerts will be places at the top the alerts in the alert view, also the name of the band will be in "Red".
- Laser alert on top, default is checked is based on same approach as the priority except that laser are also detected by the packet that described the "screen on V1", when a laser alert arrived there is a special "arrow and sound" on the V1 itself. When this is detected a laser alert will be placed on top of the list with an 8 strength. The laser alert will always placed in the alert list, but with this option it will be places on top, even before the priority one.
Note: the fact of reordering the alert can be a problem, in case of many alerts when users want to lockout, because it may change the order of an alert on K band that was already displayed. By un checking these options you have a greater chance that the order will not change.
- Alert sound on phone, with this you decide if the phone sound (notifications sound) will be used or not.
Note: the Android version prior to Honey Comb (3.0.x) have a check box here instead of the switch on/off box. Indeed switch box have been introduced with Honey Comb.
- Default alert sound, you can choose here a sound from your phone as a default alerts sound. This sound will be "played", if not muted (see later muting settings), if any other sound with higher priority are played.
- High priority alert sound, again here you choose a sound from your phone (you can even record some sounds and place the file in /media/sound/notifications folder, note that the place to store them can change depending on the android version/Rom etc ..). This sound will be played if an alert has it's frequency in a box that you have defined OR if there is no box defined for the band and the signal is > 4.
- Laser sound, you can choose also a special sound for laser alert.
Note: the priority order is Laser, High priority and default. Indeed the phone can play one sound at a time, so the top priority is played and if, because of new alerts, an higher priority sound should be play, the current sound will be stopped and the new played.
- Early laser sound on, this let the application to play the laser as soon as a laser is detected (through the display information) wihtout having to process the packet of alerts. Basically you will hear the sound few milliseconds before seeing the laser alert. It's very hard to evaluate how "soon", since it's a story of milliseconds.
All the sound comes with the "default notification sound" of the phone. Indeed I can't use other sounds since it depends of the android version, custom Rom or self made sounds.
In a future release we might be to able to define sounds per band or even per "box", we will see in future, but the concept will remain the same ..
Second screen for general settings (could not fit in one view):
- Sound on service/start stop. You can define a sound that will be played when the Alert service starts or stops. When starting it really means that the application is connected to V1 itself, not only to the V1C. I realize that you can have V1C running, and V1 stopped, so this sound means that the application has received some "packets" from V1 and the Alert service is really active. You will get the same sound when you stop the application, meaning the Alert service stop. You can also have this sound if you stop the V1, after few seconds (see below) the sound will be played and the "Waiting for V1" screen will pop up.
- Valentine timeout. The application receives continuously data from V1. Passed this number of second without receiving any data, we can consider of an error or most likely the V1 has been switch off. In such case, the V1 wait screen will appear and try to restart the Alert service. 3 seconds is the default value, that was used in the simple sample app from VR, if you get too many "V1 drop" you can try to increase by 1 or 2 seconds, but it should not need any other value.
- Record success sound, this sound is used to indicate success on a lockout or frequency recording (if you enabled these features)
- Record failed sound, this is the opposite as the above one.
The other options are switch that you can use to turn on/off features. I am actually thinking to remove them since they are also available in the feature settings screens.
To be continued ...
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