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Ori Aug 14, 2023

@kylebshr @paku Joined ! Thanks 🙏🏻, Paku 5.0 has widgets? Can’t seem to find one..

@greatgamer they won't show up until the app is launched, and sometimes not until you reboot :/

@kylebshr @greatgamer Do Apple allow you to use OS features from betas in third party apps now? Wondering if it'd hide interactive widgets as a not yet supported feature until the release

@yoavlavi @greatgamer you can use those features if you're on the beta! I haven’t thought of any interactive widget ideas for Paku. Would love to hear them if you've got them

@kylebshr @greatgamer That's interesting, I recall that in previous betas features like widgets (when they were new) were only supported in first party apps until the release. Although can't recall how TestFlight apps behaved

@yoavlavi @greatgamer devs can release test flight updates with beta features, but can't submit them to the app store until the OS is released to the public

@kylebshr @greatgamer Oh ok, makes sense

@kylebshr @paku Tried
it out, looks very nice! There's only one sensor in my area which is one town over (8km) so would be hard to say how accurate the data is. I did however notice a bug where if you change the "layer" (the icon under the settings icon on the map) it'll not show any sensor data until you zoom out. Good luck!

@yoavlavi ugh that bug is killing me, thanks for the report though!

@kylebshr How close would a sensor need to be for it to likely be close to my current air quality / humidity / etc.? Might be cool to show an overlay (akin to the new walking distance guide in Apple maps) that gauges relative accuracy in conjunction with distance.

Either for individual sensors or just as a sort of overlay heatmap / distance to measurement quality indicator.

@yoavlavi I don't think there’s a general rule for that, depends on too many weather conditions and what the cause of the air quality is

@yoavlavi definitely a downside to Paku - it's limited by the PurpleAir network. But the upside is that anyone can buy a sensor and add it to the network!

@kylebshr Is the main target audience users that own sensors? Or is one in your building / block / neighborhood accurate enough?

If it's the former, is viewing other sensors meant to be for when you travel / are out of the house?

I just ran into this and am curious so sorry for all the questions 🙂

@yoavlavi I feel like within a mile or two is pretty useful. main audience is folks with their own sensors or those who live in major US cities, where the sensor density is often pretty high. You can get much higher accuracy AQI and temperature than most weather apps in San Francisco for example

Donovan Watts Aug 15, 2023

@kylebshr @paku Testing it out now. Looks and works great.