Android widget

[kennelh]

Works, but curiously, now it's using another angle on the truck image. It was correct before (angle "1").

The app pulls all angles, so now the image will change randomly every time it refreshes.

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[Yves]

Simply amazing
Auto works fine and the truck image was already the appropriate image.

First thumbs up to @kenhl for the application and to whomever as participated. Now this might be off topic but I'll ask the question... @Snakebitten why would your LVB shows 12V while @rdelaro1 shows 13V. Mine is a PB 2021 bulit in Sep 2021 and I also have 12V which make me wonder if I had a problem i.e. bad battery.

 

[daemonic3]

Loving the update! We just got a Mach-E and can toggle easily between both vehicles. It's fun to just keep toggling and watching the angles change

 

[Kanuck]

First thumbs up to @kenhl for the application and to whomever as participated. Now this might be off topic but I'll ask the question... @Snakebitten why would your LVB shows 12V while @rdelaro1 shows 13V. Mine is a PB 2021 bulit in Sep 2021 and I also have 12V which make me wonder if I had a problem i.e. bad battery.

It depends on when you updated and how long the truck has been shut down and when the truck reported to the mother ship (Ford servers). The charging system on the truck is around 14 volts.

 

[Yves]

It depends on when you updated and how long the truck has been shut down and when the truck reported to the mother ship (Ford servers). The charging system on the truck is around 14 volts.

I'm going on a trip in few days so more than 15 minutes drive . I'll check on arrival how much I get. Do you see 14v on yours?

 

[Kanuck]

I'm going on a trip in few days so more than 15 minutes drive . I'll check on arrival how much I get. Do you see 14v on yours?

I have seen 12, 13 and 14 volts, just depends on how long the truck has been off.

 

[Kanuck]

I have seen 12, 13 and 14 volts, just depends on how long the truck has been off.

I just looked at the widget and it shows 14 volts. Truck has been in the garage since yesterday around 8 PM.

 

[kennelh]

I've pushed out a beta version to GitHub which uses the status information read from the servers rather than the VIN to determine whether a vehicle is a BEV, PHEV, or ICE. I'd appreciate anyone who's willing to try it out letting me know via GitHub/DM/a post here if it works for you or not. The current release is still here if you need to go back. Be sure to back up your settings first in case you need to go back. Thanks.

 

[kennelh]

Uploaded version 2022.07.31 (repeatedly) to GitHub and Play Store this morning. Unfortunately the first post of the day had a bug I was convinced I'd fixed, so I immediately fixed it and pushed out another copy trying to beat the few who might have seen the notification in the app. And then ten minutes later found another obvious problem on the full size widget. The link above contains the last version I'm posting today unless something fatal shows up, in case you already updated.

 

[Tomwilli2025]

What's the app name in the Play Store?

 

[Hivolt]

What's the app name in the Play Store?

Ford Status Widget

 

[kennelh]

Uploaded version 2022.08.20 to GitHub and Play Store. You can read the changelog to see what's new (not a whole lot) but there is support for Android 13. If you're on Android 13, be sure to open the app since notifications now require the user to give permission.

Be forewarned that I've included a brief (2 question) survey about app usage; you will see a notification which takes you to the main instruction screen. It only appears once so it won't pester you, but please take a few seconds to provide feedback.

 

[kennelh]

Over the next few weeks/months I'm planning some enhancements to the widget's OTA information. Among them will be generating specific notifications when an OTA appears so you know when and what you should do. In order to do this I need to crowd source help from users here whose vehicles receive OTAs.

Version 2022.08.23 displays a new piece of info in the OTA View screen labeled "Alert Status". Why? I (finally) received the 22S41/22S29 recall OTA update for my Mach-E last week and when looking through the log files noticed some relationship between the JSON values and what I had to do (turn the car on for a while, hit "Update Now" on the center display, etc), but didn't completely document it. For example, it appears that when "Alert Status" contains "UPDATE REMINDER", the update is ready but won't deploy until your scheduled time or until you select "Update Now".

I've attempted to document the various stages of OTA on the GitHub FAQ page but these have not been associated with what's actually happening in the truck.

If anyone starts receiving an OTA update, I'd appreciate it if you would document the info contained in "Aggregate", "Detailed", and "Alert Status" in relationship to what occurred. For example, if you see Aggregate is "requested", does it stay that way until the car is on? Does it change to "request_delivery_queued" and/or "artifact_retrieval_in_progress" after you start the car? Once you've documented something, send me a DM with the info. Record as much details as possible.

 

[kennelh]

Uploaded version 2022.09.10 to GitHub and Play Store. But just in case people skim the change log (or get it from the Play Store), I've disabled trying to pull the OTA info. Ford made a change to the API and I haven't found a way around it. The widget will still display the last info that was stored prior to the API changing.

 

[Snakebitten]

Thanks!

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