Thank you for creating such a cool altimeter! I can’t wait to jump it even after seeing others use the prototype and the new explorer model.
I have a few notes on my initial impressions from unboxing it and setting it up.
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It was kinda odd to me that it didnt start up initially because the battery had no power. I plugged it in and it came on quick.
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First time you turn it on it should go straight into wifi setup and search for networks. The first couple of times I pressed the search nothing happened
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The initial login was confusing to me. There was a number there that I didnt know where it cam from but now I see its my id#. It’s a minor issue but maybe using the regular login would be better.
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The keyboard needs some work. I know the device is still rough around the edges but my large fingers had issues with the keyboard. I finally used a pen kind of like a stylus.
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The time is weird. It often goes to gmt time and I have seen pacific standard time( in california) and rarely Pacific daylight time. As a gps device I would think this would be pretty simple. The dropzone choice says gmt -8 but if you go into time settings it says +11.
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I think the moon is sunset but even though I am not using 24 hour time it displays in 24 hour time.
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It seems like there are some uninitialized variables on the stat screen. Highest jump, freefall time and last jump all have strange numbers. Other values like plane time have a dash since it hasnt calculated that yet.
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It would be nice to have some feedback if its off and you plug it into charge. I’m not even sure it charged while off and plugged in while I was working. It’s very obvious while on that it is charging though.
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As a programmer, the patching looked fine to me. A less informed person might get confused by the terminal screen and text flashing by. I would just expect the logo and installing updates.
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As many others have pointed out setting base jump numbers and freefall time would be great.
These are just some picky things I noticed unboxing and setting it up. I used to work on video games as a programmer and we spent weeks on things like initial setup. So I get a little picky with some things. Thank you for making such a cool device though. I just started skydiving a year ago and was kinda shocked how we had amazing tech all over the place but the altimeters were not using anything remotely current.