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Add ability to change light mode #36

Open beeradmoore opened 4 years ago

beeradmoore commented 4 years ago

App currently does not allow you to turn your lights on or off.

onewheeler70 commented 3 years ago

I would like this feature in the app, and have an Android "Intent" that I can call from my Flic bluetooth button. This would allow me to turn off the light when approaching walkers, as the light is too bright and I can see they have trouble seeing me. The Intent allows me to use a bluetooth button that I can clip to my shirt or helmet.

beeradmoore commented 3 years ago

I did not realise there were devices we can communicate to an app with via intents. This would be a nice little addition for sure.

onewheeler70 commented 3 years ago

I use a Flic button "https://flic.io". It is a bluetooth button, and the software allows me to call an Intent in any software upon clicking the button. A nice way to perform a software action by clicking a hardware button away from the phone. I am not sure if this OWCE app is still in active development. I would offer to help out, but Xamarin is not one of my software skillsets. Will have a look at learning it.

beeradmoore commented 3 years ago

Development is semi-active, but I am super-active when it comes to feedback, pointing people in the right direction, etc.

In terms of the bluetooth+intent stuff it would be within the Android side so large parts of it would still be normal Android code, just in C# not Java.

Light toggle work is not done yet but it could be a good starter to understand the project structure and interconnects. Seeing the correct characteristic to change and how to change it can be discovered organically or you can see how POnewheel does it.

As for everything else, I don't know if we need to have any UI for the user to enable intents. If there were other intents for things like ride mode I imagine we would not want that to be togglable by every app? (Although ride mode does nothing while the device is in motion)

onewheeler70 commented 3 years ago

Yeah, good question on ride mode toggling via intent. I wondered if there was anyone who might want to toggle it at the start of a large hill and flick back after. No idea on the safety of that, and I guess you are saying that the board will deny the change anyway. If the board denies it safety-first, then I guess the intent could be there. Am a little busy ATM, but I will check out the code and get a feel for the work.