iPhone companion app

[Jason Bramwell]

> On 30 Jan 2015, at 17:35, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:57:25PM +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
>> Yep, I got the location to a manually added dive in Subsurface itself.
>> 
>> If the user ID is correct on both sides, then the only thing I can think of
>> causing trouble is the time sync.
> 
> I think the biggest problem is that many people appear to assume that a
> "dive" that was added on the companion app will CREATE a dive in
> Subsurface.
> 
> But that is NOT how it works. All the companion app does is add GPS
> location (and, potentially, a dive site name) to EXISTING dives in
> Subsurface.
> 
> This apparently isn't communicated clearly enough.
> 
> /D

That was my problem I suspect. I was expecting a blank dive to pop up with the new locations gps/name.

Jason
> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:46 PM, JB2Cool <jb2cool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You are seeing this 'dive' from within Subsurface itself?
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I just tested this out and got the location to be added to a "dive" on
>>>> Subsurface. So it appears to be working. At one point I had an extra space
>>>> on the ID and that prevented it from working, but fixing that got me going.
>>>> 
>>>> miika
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:24 PM, JB2Cool <jb2cool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've tried using it but never seemed to make it do much, perhaps i'm
>>>>> trying to use it incorrectly. I can manually add a dive and it picks up my
>>>>> GPS coordinates and i can give it a name it but i never seem to be able to
>>>>> pick up this dive from within Subsurface. I have checked that i have the
>>>>> same ID plugged in at both ends.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jason
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We've had an iPhone companion app since last summer (Andrey created it
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> part of GSoC). I just realized (after a post to our user forum) that we
>>>>>> don't mention it anywhere in the docs.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Are there any iPhone users here (sorry, I'm an Android person)? Can
>>>>>> someone confirm that the app works and write a few lines on how to
>>>>>> install
>>>>>> it so we can add this to the manual?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> /D
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