Cell-King
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- Sep 23, 2019
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Batrium have developed an android app for Watchmon control but they wont allow it's release until they've developed the IOS version with feature parity. They've been working on this for over a year if my memory serves me so they're being ridiculously slow.
If they cared about their customers instead of their self image they'd release the software onto the market as it is. I suspect most users use android anyway, and if not it's easy enough to find a cheap tablet somewhere.
I'm currently in a situation where my Watchmonhas crashed and needs a reboot but I'm 40 miles away from it. This happens every two weeks or so and I know there is a firmware update to apply to the watchmon which might actually fix this so I'm not annoyed about that but just the lack of control that we have on our devices leaves a bit to be desired in this modern era of open standards.
I can't log into the watchmonexcept using a windows machine which is a pain in and of itselfand also I can't perform any of the master settings changes without that windows machinebeing connected by USB.
There's an extensive warning whenever I'm making changes to the watchmon, it's not as if making changes over USB compared to Wifi will make a difference to their liability because i've already agreed to the risks, but it does make it considerably more awkward to manage.
I think it would serve the company better in the long run if they were actually more open about things, like letting users log into the ESP, or having a small webserver for basic tasks, perhaps running a MQTT daemon on-board to free the data a bit more.
If they cared about their customers instead of their self image they'd release the software onto the market as it is. I suspect most users use android anyway, and if not it's easy enough to find a cheap tablet somewhere.
I'm currently in a situation where my Watchmonhas crashed and needs a reboot but I'm 40 miles away from it. This happens every two weeks or so and I know there is a firmware update to apply to the watchmon which might actually fix this so I'm not annoyed about that but just the lack of control that we have on our devices leaves a bit to be desired in this modern era of open standards.
I can't log into the watchmonexcept using a windows machine which is a pain in and of itselfand also I can't perform any of the master settings changes without that windows machinebeing connected by USB.
There's an extensive warning whenever I'm making changes to the watchmon, it's not as if making changes over USB compared to Wifi will make a difference to their liability because i've already agreed to the risks, but it does make it considerably more awkward to manage.
I think it would serve the company better in the long run if they were actually more open about things, like letting users log into the ESP, or having a small webserver for basic tasks, perhaps running a MQTT daemon on-board to free the data a bit more.