Fcc Car Launcher [official thread]

[HatManSan]

Sorry for the delay. Chest Infection Ok test 96 installed, HU restarted etc. No change. Map still flashing. I have video'd it for you to see. At 0:38 and 1:40

Google Maps Flashing constantly

Something just came to mind. I wanted to have some iBUS widgets hidden behind the map. I have the Street Name button set up to Hide the map, thus displaying the iBUS widgets. This caused many problems, mainly the widgets and map alternating very randomly. I removed the widgets. I wonder whether you might consider implements a feature that allows us to see all created "place holders" active or otherwise. I have clicked on various parts of the left of the screen but not found anything hidden.

 

[shdwkeeper]

I'm running the latest Hal9k and is there anyway to add a media player to the widget that doesnt come up in the list so it will display the album art? I'm using an app called iheartradio in the US and none of the info (album, artist, etc) appears in the launcher but when the Hal9k screen saver comes on all the info displays. How do we get this to happen in the launcher, to display album art and info no matter what media player is playing?

 

[SpeedFire-]

Thank you! I just tested it and it basically fixes my issue, i.e. the Player widget on my setup now goes to the bottom of the screen and fully covers the wallpaper image.

However, now the progress bar of the Player widget isn't fully shown anymore, it's only 2 px instead of 6 px heigh, please see attached picture.

In test96 and before, one unit of my screen grid was 89 px heigh, so the 600 px height of my screen added up like this: status bar 64 px + screen grid 6 * 89 px + 2 unused lines at the bottom of the screen = 600 px.

In test97 it is like this: status bar 64 px + screen grid 6 * 90 px - 4 not shown lines at the bottom of the screen = 600 px.

For me personally test97 is OK, since the now only 2 px heigh progress bar looks nice to me (as I prefer it to be slim), but I don't know what other users think.

Couldn't you make the units of the screen grid different in height, so that they compensate for the rounding errors and add up to the full screen height?

For my vertical screen grid this would be: status bar 64 px + screen grid 89 px + 90 px + 89 px + 89 px + 90 px + 89 px = 600 px.

For my horizontal grid this would be: 102 px + 103 px + 102 px + 103 px + 102 px + 102 px + 103 px + 102 px + 103 px + 102 px = 1024 px.

Of course this mixture of 89 px + 90 px and 102 px + 103 px would have to be calculated based on the actual screen size and screen grid that is used. I guess that this makes it quite complicated if not impossible for you to implement. In this case I personally would prefer the implementation of test97 over the implementation of test96 and before.

I have two feature requests for the Player widget which I already asked some months ago, before you reworked the Player widget. Now I'd like to ask you again:

1. Please add an option to set the height of the progress bar (this would also serve as a workaround for the screen grid implementation of test97).
2. Please add some toggles to turn the progress bar on/off separately for each player. This would be very useful, because not all players broadcast their track position. Currently I e.g. see a full progress bar when using DAB-Z and NavRadio+, but I would like to turn it of for them.

After installing test97 I observed an issue of the Clock widget that has been reported before but not fixed yet: The Clock widget sometimes erratically changes its font sizes when updating FCC. As I observed it, the size of the 2nd font gets bigger and the size of the 1st font gets smaller. Please have a look into this.

Thanks and best regards.

There is no quick way to change the widget height individually.
So in this fix I check if available height is evenly divisible by the number of widgets -> no adjustment.
If there is some extra space -> I add 1px to each widget. This can indeed result in the bottom widget is slightly below the bottom of the screen.

You can adjust this by the widget's setting -> bottom margin.
Regarding your questions:
1. Progress bar size cannot be changed easily. At least I need to find a way.
2. You can disable progress bar in the widget's settings - Show/hide progress bar

 

[SpeedFire-]

Sorry for the delay. Chest Infection Ok test 96 installed, HU restarted etc. No change. Map still flashing. I have video'd it for you to see. At 0:38 and 1:40

Google Maps Flashing constantly

Something just came to mind. I wanted to have some iBUS widgets hidden behind the map. I have the Street Name button set up to Hide the map, thus displaying the iBUS widgets. This caused many problems, mainly the widgets and map alternating very randomly. I removed the widgets. I wonder whether you might consider implements a feature that allows us to see all created "place holders" active or otherwise. I have clicked on various parts of the left of the screen but not found anything hidden.

Thanks. Based on your video this blink happens exactly every minute.
Every minute the app checks if it needs to apply day / night mode. Probably this is the cause of this blink. I will try to reproduce.

Update: Done. Please check this version - fcclauncher-3.442_test98.apk

 

[okij]

There is no quick way to change the widget height individually.

That's what I already thought.

So in this fix I check if available height is evenly divisible by the number of widgets -> no adjustment.
If there is some extra space -> I add 1px to each widget. This can indeed result in the bottom widget is slightly below the bottom of the screen.

IMHO this implementation is fine, because ...

You can adjust this by the widget's setting -> bottom margin.

... this works fine and totaly suits my needs (and should suit the needs of other users too).

Stupid me didn't think about adjusting the bottom margin - respectively the padding of the Player widget, since it has no setting for the bottom margin.

Regarding your questions:
1. Progress bar size cannot be changed easily. At least I need to find a way.

This is OK for me then. I now set the padding of the Player widget to 2 pixels, so I see a 4 pixel wide progress bar, which IMHO is a nice width.

This makes me think if you could also allow negative numbers for widget padding and margins. By this, the user could e.g. push out the progress bar by some pixels.

2. You can disable progress bar in the widget's settings - Show/hide progress bar

That's not what I meant. Of course I can fully enable or disable the progress bar by this setting.

What I asked for are separate toggles for each of the three players of the Player widget, so that the progress bar can e.g. be disabled for player #1 and #2 (which don't broadcast their track position) and enabled for player #3 (which broadcasts its track position).

Currently the progress bar is fully shown (100% = end of the track) when a player doesn't broadcast its track position, but of course it should better be fully hidden then.

If it's difficult to fully turn off the progress bar for certain players only, I would suggest that you simply show it as 0% (= start of the track), so it will be hidden. But it would be great to have an option to show/hide progress bar for each player.

Please let me know what you think.

 

[shdwkeeper]

I'm running the latest Hal9k and is there anyway to add a media player to the widget that doesnt come up in the list so it will display the album art? I'm using an app called iheartradio in the US and none of the info (album, artist, etc) appears in the launcher but when the Hal9k screen saver comes on all the info displays. How do we get this to happen in the launcher, to display album art and info no matter what media player is playing?

Is this not possible right now?

 

[HatManSan]

@SpeedFire- Excellent. Will test in the morning. Thank you

 

[SpeedFire-]

Is this not possible right now?

Please check that you've granted Fcc Launcher access to notifications.
iHeartRadio works perfect for me:

 

[shdwkeeper]

Please check that you've granted Fcc Launcher access to notifications.
iHeartRadio works perfect for me:

Oh, everything else works for album art except iheart radio. Where do I double check this?

 

[SpeedFire-]

Oh, everything else works for album art except iheart radio. Where do I double check this?

Try to reboot your device completely.

 

[shdwkeeper]

Try to reboot your device completely.

I have it set to Auto Sleep and it reboots all the time, once the car is turned off this occurs., random but happens a lot. So its been rebooted. Heart never shows up in my player widget like yours.

 

[SpeedFire-]

I have it set to Auto Sleep and it reboots all the time, once the car is turned off this occurs., random but happens a lot. So its been rebooted. Heart never shows up in my player widget like yours.

I checked on the latest test version. Do you use it?

 

[shdwkeeper]

I checked on the latest test version. Do you use it?

I'm not on the latest. I'm on one of the test 90 versions though

 

[bitman85]

Hello good Morning

First of all congratulate you on this amazing launcher, after trying several I decided on yours and automatically bought the premium version and it is an amazing launcher.

I just have a couple of things that don't quite work for me:

1- OBD2 widgets, I have a bluethoot adapter put in the car and it works great for me with Torque Pro, but for some reason the launcher widgets don't work for me, it doesn't give an error or it just doesn't work or it doesn't connect, I'm not sure what is wrong

2- Use google assistant to make calls, if I follow the configuration steps that it says in settings (select FCCC as default) it opens my web browser searching in google for 'call Mr. X' in fact the same thing if I say to google to call from the Launcher. In the original launcher of my radio (Launcher 3) if I used this option to ask the assistant to call, it only gave SIM card error

Otherwise everything works very well for me, also add options that my android radio did not have

My radio is a specific owtosin for Ford Focus mk3.5 and it is a PX6

 

[shdwkeeper]

Please check that you've granted Fcc Launcher access to notifications.
iHeartRadio works perfect for me:

Upgraded to test 98 same problem. Iheart is playing. Hal9k Screensaver has the album art but the launcher skin is still displaying art from previous song.

 

[HatManSan]

t98 installed. Observations. Map is no longer flashing but took a very long time to find my position even with a 5 bar internet signal. The other minor issue that I have observed today is the clock shrank. It went down from 32pt to 24pt and the secondary line went from 20pt to 12pt. Also the Player widget normally displays DAB, FM and Music, but had decided to add Standard player. This disappeared after a restart but did come back again. It has stopped doing it now. A LogCat will be posted soonest. Thank you

 

[SpeedFire-]

Upgraded to test 98 same problem. Iheart is playing. Hal9k Screensaver has the album art but the launcher skin is still displaying art from previous song.

Why is the selected player in Fcc is SiriusXM and not iHeart?

 

[shdwkeeper]

Why is the selected player in Fcc is SiriusXM and not iHeart?

No idea. iHeart is playing when I took that pic. That is my question, why isn't it working

 

[SpeedFire-]

No idea. iHeart is playing when I took that pic. That is my question, why isn't it working

Can't tell you. Pic is not enough obviously. If you can send me LogCat logs of the process of switching from any other player to iHeartRadio player this could help.

Please also double check that you've granted Fcc Launcher access to Notifications data. You had to do this during initial setup, however I've added the link to this setting in this new test version.

fcclauncher-3.442_test99.apk

Go to Fcc Settings - System - Advanced - Notifications

 

[okij]

The other minor issue that I have observed today is the clock shrank. It went down from 32pt to 24pt and the secondary line went from 20pt to 12pt.

That's what I also observed and already reported, so thank you for confirmation!

For me one of the texts got smaller and one bigger. This bug seems to happen when updating FCC and only affects the Clock widget.

I hope that @SpeedFire- will have a look into this.