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EEVBlog 121GW Discussion thread
JDW:
--- Quote from: Brumby on February 22, 2023, 12:43:48 am ---In defence of [Apple culling older apps incompatible with new iOS releases], the overhead maintaining multiple O/S compatibility in an App is not insignificant - and is often impossible with new features only available with newer operating systems.
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Be that as it may, the fact remains that the smartphone APP is the killer "Logging" feature of the 121GW insofar as the app shows you a graphical waveform representation without requiring you to unscrew and open the meter to extract the SD card which in turn must be put into a computer for the purpose of seeing a TEXT-only view of logged data. Want a visual representation of that text you extracted from the SD card? You must make time to graph it yourself! And after all that time-consuming work, you must put the SD card back in. Want more data? Wash and repeat! Ack! Glad the SD card is there, but man the app is so much better!
Most people who buy the 121GW, myself included, do so BECAUSE it has data logging. If you don't need that one key feature, the BM786 is perhaps the best pick. And when you want data logging, you want something fast, convenient, and if possible, graphical. The 121GW offers that by way of the smartphone app.
And so, I do hope that whatever happens now will bring us a better iOS app. Meteor isn't all that bad, but not being able to FREEZE the waveform on my iPhone's screen (without dimming) is a critically important feature that I am totally shocked and amazed that the developer of Meteor didn't consider. It would be great if that developer could read our discussion here, as that may inspire him to improve his app, thereby making my call for the official app to be reinstated to the iOS App Store moot.
Just to let everyone know, the reason for all this discussion is because I am doing prep work for a YouTube video review of the 121GW. It was not given to me. I purchased it new at the end of January this year, direct from the EEVBlog store. I had hoped to get the Fuse pack too, but frustratingly, it was out of stock. In fact, I checked just now to find it still out of stock! Even the 121GW meter itself is often out of stock, so I snapped it up when I could. Had I waited for the Fuse pack to get back in stock, my worry was the meter would then go out of stock. Indeed, had I waited, I still would be waiting AND without a meter too.
By the way, selling the 121GW on Amazon (not simply on the EEVBlog store only) might be a way to give it free advertising and more exposure. It says "Currently Unavailable" now on Amazon, despite the fact the BM786 is available there.
EEVblog:
After spending half the day and live stream trying to do it, thesource code is now on github:
https://github.com/EEVblog/121GW-App-Apple-IOS
also gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/eevblog/eevblog-121gw-app-for-apple-ios
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: JDW on February 22, 2023, 01:10:15 am ---And so, I do hope that whatever happens now will bring us a better iOS app. Meteor isn't all that bad, but not being able to FREEZE the waveform on my iPhone's screen (without dimming) is a critically important feature that I am totally shocked and amazed that the developer of Meteor didn't consider. It would be great if that developer could read our discussion here, as that may inspire him to improve his app, thereby making my call for the official app to be reinstated to the iOS App Store moot.
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I had no idea that app existed.
I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it's best if I just leave it to them (or others) to do this.
The source code for my version is out there now, so anyone is free to take it and update the app or make their own.
I still have absolutely no idea why my app vanished, or what's involved to get it back up.
bicycleguy:
Thanks for the work of putting on Github. Your effort was successful !
I was able to clone it and relatively easily get it to sort of start working on my iphone6. Just getting it to compile and put up a window is normally half the battle.
This looks a lot more capable than the 1.7 build I have been using even though it says 1.0.5 ?
It has 17 'Deprecations', 5 from ios9 the rest from ios10 that have to be dealt with to bring it up to ios12 that I'm using. Deprecations are functions that apple is changing or dropping that require a little work to figure out how to modify so it will run the correct new stuff.
BT comm is working but no graphing is happening. When I get the Deprecations fixed it'll probably start working.
JDW:
I just sent an email to Western Computational, developer of Meteor, informing them of this discussion thread and the fact the source is now on Github. I also mentioned the inability to FREEZE a waveform during logging.
Hopefully the end result will be a better 121GW app. It's not a significant change, so I don't see what it can't happen. I simply lack the coding ability to do it.
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