Android App-Status Widgets
Right now, there are scene widgets for Android, that allow me to easily start a scene, but no widgets that show the current status of a Sensor/Lock/Thermosts (I have to go into the app). It would be great to glance at my phone/tablet and see the current status of an sensor
This has been released. The help page has details:
http://www.incontrolzwave.com/page/InControl-Version-3-(Mobile-Devices).aspx
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David Bennett commented
Thanks! This may not work well for phones and their battery life, but for a household tablet that's always plugged in (like I have near my front door) it will work great.
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Nicholas Otte commented
To limit the battery impact with an active network, could the push notifications be implemented on a per device basis? So the user could pick the one or two devices that they'd want, or perhaps, have the client auto-enable push for whichever devices get created as status widgets?
Alternately, can a widget hook in and grab the screen status, so that every time the device is woken up, it'd query the cloud for the status of the selected devices? If this implementation is used, I'd say there needs to be text in the widget noting the last time the time the cloud was successfully polled (I get driven mad by "current" weather apps that are supposed to update automagically, but I never know if they're actually current).
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Hey Nicholas -
We've currently got it using the Google push mechanism in our test environment. Even so, with an active network, it saps the battery pretty quickly.
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Nicholas Otte commented
Any chance Google makes their Push API's available? So you could push status changes from the InControl cloud to a background listener on the Android device, instead of having to maintain a constant connection?