I've just uploaded an improved version of this app to the store. It should show up late Tuesday or Wednesday in the store.
You ever make one of those errors that you know in hindsight you shouldn't have?
As it turns out, one of the component packages (the asp.net SignalR client) in the app was updated a couple of months ago to resolve a problem introduced in a windows update last summer but I'd never updated to the new version of the package because I wasn't having issues.
I never updated the package because the failure mode only occurred in release rather than debug mode. So while the app ran fine for me, as soon as I uploaded it, it failed silently for anyone who actually tried to connect to an FMS, just sitting there never connecting.
Best practice is to always have the test team validate the packages as built for release before uploading. I'd fire my test team, but it's me and need the job.
Mea Culpa. That's been fixed and a number of but fixes and usability updates have been added.
- All configuration settings now persist, you don't have to fiddle with stuff each time you restart the app.
- Text values for voltage, trip time, radio signal strength and bandwidth have been added for your pleasure.
- The simulate/connect to FMS buttons now work much better. If you connect to the FMS while the simulation is running the simulation stops. If you start a simulation while connected to the FMS it disconnects from the FMS first.
- If you have a touch screen, you can use touch to stop and rewind the individual strip charts which will either restart by themselves after 10 seconds or so or you can simply swipe the chart back to the end and it will pick up auto updating.
- There is a bug on Windows mobile where the app will suspend the background listening task if the phone goes to sleep. It's not supposed to do this and I'm looking into it. You should be able to simply leave your phone on the scorekeeper's table and the app should run in the background sending alerts to the band. Should, but currently can't.
Thanks to the folks who have tried this out.