Windows Phone App beta

[NicoVermeir]

I'm currently travelling for business and tried the app from 5000 miles away from home. If I have a good connection with my phone all icons appear normal and the app works as expected. If I have a poor connection then the icons all turn gray. Looks like the gray icon syndrome may be related to the quality of the phone/internet connection.

hmm okay, can anyone confirm that they're seeing the same behavior?
also, even without the icons, do the modules work?

[NicoVermeir]

the modules with the missing icons, are they z-wave modules or something else?

[nolio]

All my system use zwave, but i have simple module too like :

• Security Alarm System
• WebCam
• Weather undergroud
• jkutils - Solar Altitude
• jkutils - OpenWeather

I try on my "HG server test" and the Security Alarm System show correctly. This test environnement is without login/password.
But i can't use the icon to set/unset alarm.

[NicoVermeir]

But i can't use the icon to set/unset alarm.

that's not implemented yet, so that's normal.

[enterprised]

Back in town. Whenever I had a poor connection all icons stayed gray for a very long time, eventually after 2 to 3 minutes they would show up. First I was not that patient and gave up before the icons showed. Whenever I had a good connection all icons showed quickly and program performed as expected.

[NicoVermeir]

so, I finally got around to replicating the no icons issue. turns out that if HG is configured to use a password, even the icons are password protected. tbh, this feels like a bug in HG to me.

Gene, anything you can do on HG side?

[Gene]

How are you downloading images? If you're downloading them from code, see this:

https://github.com/genielabs/HomeGenie-SmartControl/blob/master/HomeGenie-Net-ClientLib/Utility.cs#L43

Cheers,
g.

[NicoVermeir]

How are you downloading images? If you're downloading them from code, see this:

https://github.com/genielabs/HomeGenie-SmartControl/blob/master/HomeGenie-Net-ClientLib/Utility.cs#L43

Cheers,
g.

I'm not actually downloading them manually, just assigning imagesource to the url. I'll have a look at that code, thx

[NicoVermeir]

good news!

fixed the image problem! also, as promised, the invite-only beta has ended and has been unpublished. Huge thanks to all testers!

The new app has been submitted to the store, if all goes well it should pass certification pretty soon and I'll post the link here.

next step: working to get all modules up and running and continuing work on the big Windows version

[NicoVermeir]

updated the first post in this thread with the app link

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/homegenie/3bc28510-739d-49cf-ab52-f88f7b7cd253

[nolio]

Yes the icons appear  !

[Britton]

I just downloaded the ap from the Windows Phone store.  Have the Lumia 928 with 8.1 upgrade.  The only modules installed are 2 Z Wave devices.

Have the following problems:

Switch works OK but the switch icon does not toggle.

Light dimmer does not work for dimming or on/off.

Weather Underground does not show up.


All of the above problems did not happen with the old phone ap. 

[nolio]

I just downloaded the ap from the Windows Phone store.  Have the Lumia 928 with 8.1 upgrade.  The only modules installed are 2 Z Wave devices.

Have the following problems:
Switch works OK but the switch icon does not toggle.
Light dimmer does not work for dimming or on/off.
Weather Underground does not show up.
All of the above problems did not happen with the old phone ap. 

That why, i still use the old app for now (and i can't too see the status of my motion device on this app) ....

[NicoVermeir]

hi guys, sorry for not replying for a while, have been crazy busy preparing for the local win10 launch (helping MS out with local events, doing online webcasts and so on)

as for the mentioned problems:

- the toggling seems to work sometimes, need to investigate
- light dimmer is working for me, is it not working at all or does it have another problem?
- weather underground: that's by design (for now) looking to build a generic widget that can show these kind of data

as for the other modules: I still only own a multisensor and a light dimmer. is there anyone with C# knowledge and other modules that can help me out with testing and pinpointing bugs in the modules?

[amselem]

Hi Nico, thank you for creating this promising great app 
Do you plan to add support for the generic ip camera module?
Regards
Jacobo