Bluetooth for Arduino 4+

Some feedback and improvements

Hi this is my first review ever as an 8+ years iphone user.

First of all thanks for implementing this I have been using it with my pico and ble module. I wanted to support it so I purchased everything. However there are some bugs in the app. First:

When you go back to the main menu it is still connected to the device however there is no chance to reach it. always requires restarting the app. It would be also nice to connect directly to your project instead establish the connection everytime. It would be nice to remember the device.

2) Gamepad doesnt work for me.

3) Lack of customization of the buttons are painful. It would be nice to scale buttons drag them as you want and create like a turntable menu with pre-defined button sets. For example I would like to use a joystick and 10 different keys but there is no way to use such a thing. Needs more freedom.

4) Overall UI is much better than any other app in the app store congrats.

Developer Response ,

Hi, first of all thanks for supporting the app and for the feedback.

1. Remembering the device is not possible for technical/security reasons: iOS operating system dynamically changes device addresses, virtualising them randomically. The only way to solve this is implementing a “pairing” among the iPhone/iPad and the BLE adapter, but it is not possible in this “context” since that a BLE adapter has no display nor keyboard for inserting the pairing code, and probably this would require to implement the pairing process programmatically on every Arduino side.
2. What do you mean by “gamepad doesn’t work” ?
3. For points 3 and 4 I am trying to do my best in the spare time and to continuously improve this app (not always easy).

Thanks for the feedback

Keep it simple stupid

Great app, all I wanted is to control my own devices without any complications or lots of options that won’t be used, which keeps the interface simple.

Very limited functionality.

When I can get this to work it seems to have a very limited choice of UI controls. Unless I’m doing something wrong, it seems that the “fully customisable“ option which I paid for only gives me the option of a button or a toggle. I want more capability and hope I can find it with another app.
I don’t know how I am supposed to save a screen of UI controls for future use and I have to restart the app each time otherwise I just get a blank white screen. Perhaps I just haven’t understood how it works but there seems to be explanation.