Ilkka, I very rarely put Blind Square into sleep mode. I did notice it did go
into sleep mode about the middle of last week when we were held up in the bank
getting some things done but otherwise I can't remember turning that on in
months. I don't particularly care about the music except that it is unusual. I
can only remember that happening a couple of times over a year or more of use.
I am wondering if there is some sort of environmental anomaly we pass on our
walk. The particular area is very open and it only seems to happen to reset on
the second turn around the lake and thus the second time past this point. The
fact that recently Blind Square reports approaching one point then the next one
then jumping back to indicate approaching the first one again before finally
reporting the second one again closer than it had done the first time. Maybe
Blind Square perceives us running back and forth between these points very
quickly, points that aren't more than 50 meters apart. Perhaps this is
confusing the logic for the pedometer although again the reset only happens on
the second pass.
We are planning a brief trip to Florida mid to late March. There is a walking
trail we will want to use. We might find the pedometer a reasonable way of
judging when we return to our starting point, That is, walk out 45 minutes and
how many kilometers that is then turn back and have some sense when we are
nearing our return point. Not of course if it arbitrarily resets.
Cheers.
Dale Leavens.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ilkka Pirttimaa
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 3:14 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Continued unusual behaviour of Blind Square.
Hello!
About startup sound in launch: Are you sure BlindSquare is not in sleep mode
on background? If you launch it, it doesn't give startup sound.
I'll check code if there is (for some reason) time limit for pedometer. Yes,
there is logic that if you stay long enough on some place, then it will reset
it, but I think this is not true in your case.
Best, Ilkka/BlindSquare developer
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 2:47 AM, Dale Leavens <dleavens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Again today Blind Square reset the time/distance values at about the 1 hour
mark. It seems to do it at about the same time, one hour and quite possibly in
the same place on the second time around the lake.
Today I nearly caught it, I slipped a foot off of the curb triggering the
shake function at 59 minutes and something like 4.7 kilometers. I tripped on a
chunk of ice moments later and triggered the shake again announcing 160 meters
in 2 minutes.
Now at this location it is between Ninth and eighth Avenues where it also
announces Cote Lane. Over the past few days the location announcements have
gone a little funny there, it will announce a distance to Cote Lane then a few
meters later Eighth Ave. which is as it should be then it will again announce
Cote lane as if we were again approaching it although we have passed it. Again
then it announces Eighth Ave. It has done this for the past three or four days.
We have had cloudy weather but otherwise the GPS seems to be fairly accurate as
we go. It is around here though that the distance time seems to reset. Again
not every day but now about two in three days. It had been doing that in the
Spring but until about a month ago this had stopped.
We seem to be fairly consistent in our speed, just under 5 kilometers per
hour, a little less in the winter, a little more in the summer. Surely Blind
Square can't think we are hopping in and out of a car!
The other thing that seems to happen about once a week is that the Blind
Square music doesn't play on start-up. Blind Square is about the only App with
opening music and the only one I open using Siri. Don't know why or if this
should matter but neither do I understand why what ever code that triggers the
music would not reliably run each and every time the App is opened.So far I
haven't associated this with the distance/time reset.
This is a month old iPhone 7 running iOS 10.2.Does anyone else out there
experience these behaviors?
Dale Leavens.