New iOS Logging AND Tuning App - blueTune

Coggin · Post by **Coggin** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:19 pm

Howdy,

I thought I'd post to let everyone know of an iOS app/hardware combination I've been working on for logging AND tuning Megasquirt using an iPad 3, iPhone 4S, or iPhone 5. I totally get the "Why, a $50 laptop works fine" argument, but I'm a geek and I think it's cool. The app is unreleased, but it's going to be called "blueTune", and it leverages the above listed devices' Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE or BT 4.0, synonymous) support. Long story short, BLE is a totally different Bluetooth protocol (not backwards compatible) that is very cool for iOS developers because it's the first time we've been able to make external devices that talk to iOS devices without having to pay globs of money (~$30k) to Apple in order to get the special permissions to use the "normal" bluetooth capabilities that have always been in iOS devices. Here's a demo of my progress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... wNZK93HS9M

If you'd be interested, let me know. I'm trying to get some buzz going so I can get a first run of the hardware into production.

Thanks,
Jay

James · Post by **James** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:45 pm

Very interested!

Put me down for some testing

WestfieldMX5 · Post by **WestfieldMX5** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:21 am

Been waiting so long for this! If this can tune, I'm definitely in!

Post by **muythaibxr** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:35 am

Pretty cool!

BigBlockMopar · Post by **BigBlockMopar** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:03 am

I'm interested aswell.
Sounds cool!

jonboy688 · Post by **jonboy688** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:02 pm

Won't work with just a plain iPhone 4 or ipad2?

racingmini_mtl · Post by **racingmini_mtl** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:14 pm

jonboy688 wrote:Won't work with just a plain iPhone 4 or ipad2?

Google is your friend: http://www.quora.com/Will-the-iPhone-4- ... etooth-4-0.

Coggin · Post by **Coggin** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:02 am

racingmini_mtl wrote:
jonboy688 wrote:Won't work with just a plain iPhone 4 or ipad2?
Google is your friend: http://www.quora.com/Will-the-iPhone-4- ... etooth-4-0.

Yup, thanks! Only the devices I listed are going to work. BTW, If you're interested, please sign up to the mailing list on my webpage:

http://www.jaycoggin.com/home/bluetune/

If you're worried about security, trust me, I have 99 better things to do than sell your emails to other people, I just want to keep you informed.

BigBlockMopar · Post by **BigBlockMopar** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:58 pm

Just signed up on your mailinglist.

About the 6-gauge orientation in your app, I think it would be more 'slick' or quicker, if you could just tap on or swipe over a gauge and have the menu appear rightaway to reassign a different input to that gauge.
Keep up the good work!

Will the phone version have a different layout opposed to the iPad-version because of the smaller screen?

Coggin · Post by **Coggin** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:53 pm

BigBlockMopar wrote:Just signed up on your mailinglist.

About the 6-gauge orientation in your app, I think it would be more 'slick' or quicker, if you could just tap on or swipe over a gauge and have the menu appear rightaway to reassign a different input to that gauge.
Keep up the good work!

Will the phone version have a different layout opposed to the iPad-version because of the smaller screen?

Totally agree on the swipe over (or maybe double tap?) idea for bringing up the gauge assignment, that'll be in there really soon. As for the iPhone version, I haven't started on it's layout yet. I'm thinking it'll look similar in Portrait mode (small toolbar across top with same features). Not sure about gauge organization, a 3x2 layout like in the iPad version will probably make the gauges too small. I'll have to play around with it and see what's usable. I'm open to suggestions too.

BigBlockMopar · Post by **BigBlockMopar** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:29 am

Maybe having a tap-and-drag function on the gauges to re-arrange their order and layout on the screen might be feasible.

I currently have an iPhone 4S. I will try to come up with ideas of having a useful and easy readable screenlayout on the phone.

BigBlockMopar · Post by **BigBlockMopar** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:45 pm

Had a little go at what I think could be easily read/noticed when working on an iPhone.
Instead of gauges I think moving bars would be easier to notice. When a value gets to a critical level, the higher bars (or maybe the entire bar-block can become orange or red.
Just an idea.

Coggin · Post by **Coggin** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:00 pm

BigBlockMopar wrote:Had a little go at what I think could be easily read/noticed when working on an iPhone.
Instead of gauges I think moving bars would be easier to notice. When a value gets to a critical level, the higher bars (or maybe the entire bar-block can become orange or red.
Just an idea.

Cool, that might work well. I would want to be able to have the red/yellow colors for low and high values, but maybe the whole bar could just change colors (as well as length) when it gets into either extremes. Thanks for the input. I got swamped with work this last week, but I'll be doing some more work on it this weekend.

BigBlockMopar · Post by **BigBlockMopar** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:19 am

I'm wondering if there are any updates available on this project?

AspireSVT · Post by **AspireSVT** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 4:39 pm

Me too, I'm interested as well as I have a 4S and IPad 3. Please update, would love used the pad as a custom dash

bytesandbolts · Post by **bytesandbolts** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:52 am

Has there been any further updates to this project? I would be interested in integrating some of the App's codebase into a future project of mine if it's available somewhere.
Checked the AppStore, couldn't find any reference to the BlueTune app anywhere sadly.

nathanhardy · Post by **nathanhardy** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 12:57 pm

What do I need to do to get a trial or get on the mailing list? The website didn't work.

Post by **jsmcortina** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 1:05 pm

I'm guessing from the time that has elapsed that this fell by the wayside.

James

bytesandbolts · Post by **bytesandbolts** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:08 am

Guess its time to read up on the bluetooth stack for iOS.

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