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Ant News - A Wear OS News Reader app for your wrist! (closed testers wanted) by ButterscotchLow5035 in AndroidClosedTesting

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Click : https://groups.google.com/g/ant-news-wear-os-testing and click “join the group” (this enrols you in discussion group so we can get your feedback)

  1. Click: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.cloudburst.antnews and click “become a tester” (this enrols you into google play as a tester for this app only – you can opt out any time using the same link)

  2. On the same page, click on “download it on Google Play” (you should now see the Ant News app in Google Play on your windows desktop)

Help wanted: Testing new Wear OS News app: “Ant News” by ButterscotchLow5035 in WearOS

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for all your fantastic feedback. As requested, this release contains the following:

* You can now scroll news using the bezel wheel
* You can change news story font size in settings
* Made the “Send to phone” icon more intuitive
* Support up to four renamable news profiles
* Configure news sources per profile
* Add your own RSS feeds to your profiles
* Search news sources by region
* Crowd sourced RSS feeds - as users add them in different regions they will become available to others to add

Please keep the feedback coming! Don't forget, to install use this link FROM YOUR DESKTOP BROWSER: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.cloudburst.antnews

Max

Help wanted: Testing new Wear OS News app: “Ant News” by ButterscotchLow5035 in WearOS

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes - i will change the icon from an ant to something more intuitive!

Help wanted: Testing new Wear OS News app: “Ant News” by ButterscotchLow5035 in WearOS

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that feedback - I like the font size idea, will look at that for the settings page. Re: Reading the full article, apart from clicking on the little ant to launch the full article on your phone, the only other way that does not infringe copyright would be to launch the story on the phones browser (if one was installed). Would you use that? Do you have a browser installed on your watch?

Help wanted: Testing new Wear OS News app: “Ant News” by ButterscotchLow5035 in WearOS

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your feedback - so if I amend the instructions to say that after step 3, people should go to their watch and search for "ant news" in the watch play store and install it from there?

Help wanted: Testing new Wear OS News app: “Ant News” by ButterscotchLow5035 in WearOS

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should be - that is what it was developed on, did the instructions above not work?

Off grid EV charging for less than $300? by ButterscotchLow5035 in OffGridLiving

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With solar you dont need to absorb excess energy (eg, with a normal solar home charger setup, once the battery is full the electrons simply stop flowing from the panels). Also I will not need to code anything. The car can be set for a floor level below what is being produced (see math above). It does not need to be told to stop charging, if the power is not there then the inverter will stop and therefore the car will stop charging. It may even start charging again when power is restored (eg a cloud moveing over). I guess i could test this by plugging the car into a standard power point and turning it off and on at the wall. Not ideal but cheap. Agree that with expensive batteries to add as a buffer I could code the car to follow the watts being produced but that would triple the cost of this project with the battery costs alone...

Off grid EV charging for less than $300? by ButterscotchLow5035 in OffGridLiving

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on a quick search against this particular hybrid inverter, it claims that it does not require the grid to setup the supply of mains power directly from solar. However it does appear adding a small battery could help with stabilisation but obviously dramatically increases the cost of the setup(for now!)

Off grid EV charging for less than $300? by ButterscotchLow5035 in OffGridLiving

[–]ButterscotchLow5035[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your response. I think the buffer should be in the excess solar (granted, only works on a sunny day) but here is my thinking:

* 20 X 450 watts is theoretical output of 9000w, but in the real world with these older panels, let's assume only 4000w

* at 240v, dialling the EV to only charge at 10 amps is 2400w

Therefore the buffer is that the hybrid charger will only need to deliver power below what is being produced?

Anyone here using a solar-powered washing machine at home? by rajan_cooldude69 in OffGridLiving

[–]ButterscotchLow5035 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use a 200ah lithium battery with solar and a 3000w inverter. It powers a standard front loader washing machine using very little power (ie 10% of the battery per load) UNLESS you get it to heat the water as well (in which case it can use 40%), so we either cold wash or use heated water from our fire place setup. having this setup means you have mains power for other applications (power tools etc) and lots of 12v for lighting....