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by TheAleMaster
Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:41 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 183326

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

Got the dynamic DNS rolling and slapping a cron job on my RaspberryPi to keep it updated. I found these links that detail the difference between payload v2 and v3. I may give it a go in the next couple of weeks. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarthome/smart-home-skill-migration-guide.html#migrat...
by TheAleMaster
Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:28 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 183326

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

I somehow figured it out. In my Alexa Skill I had it set Payload version = v3 per Amazon's recommendation as v2 is deprecated (screen shot below). I changed it to v2 and everything worked fine. I went back into the Lambda JS and changed the following: The value for payloadVersion to 3 on lines 123, ...
by TheAleMaster
Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:13 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa
Replies: 82
Views: 183326

Re: HowTo: Voice control of BCS with Amazon Alexa

Ok. I sent a message to oakbarn since I was using his guide, but I’ll toss it out here for public view, too. My Lambda works fine when I test it. The things I’ve changed thus far are my IP address and port. I cannot however seem to get past discovery. The UI and user flow is a bit different now than...
by TheAleMaster
Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:24 am
Forum: Troubleshooting and Support
Topic: UI Not Rendering on iPad
Replies: 5
Views: 8920

Re: UI Not Rendering on iPad

Yeah it sucks. It and the subscription models that are everywhere.

When you say "the newer updated browser that is with the OS" are you referring to the BCS software? Because nothing has changed on the iPad for over 2 years.
by TheAleMaster
Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:54 am
Forum: Troubleshooting and Support
Topic: UI Not Rendering on iPad
Replies: 5
Views: 8920

Re: UI Not Rendering on iPad

Yeah I used mine primarily for the BCC, Tilt Hydrometers, and to stream Apple Music. The latter two still work fine and the BCS did until 4.1.2. iOS hasn’t seen an update since 2016, so it is definitely something between 4.0.0 and 4.1.2. I was hoping someone had an idea for a quick fix so I don’t ha...
by TheAleMaster
Sat Oct 06, 2018 5:44 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting and Support
Topic: UI Not Rendering on iPad
Replies: 5
Views: 8920

UI Not Rendering on iPad

I have an old iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5 for my BCS-460. It worked fine when I was running 4.0.0. But I recently upgraded to 4.1.2 and now some of the UI loads, but most does not and it is unusable (image below - thanks phpbb for the flipped image - this should be properly oriented ). This happens wit...
by TheAleMaster
Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:29 pm
Forum: BCS Programming
Topic: Howto: Calibrate Temperature Probes
Replies: 45
Views: 95579

Re: Howto: Calibrate Temperature Probes

Are there instructions about how to use bbrally’s tool? I can’t seem to find them. I haven’t used my BCS much in about four years in favor of a Zymatic, but I’m getting back into it and it seems my probes are about 7 degrees off at freezing and about 5 at 117. Not sure what’s going on.
by TheAleMaster
Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:26 am
Forum: Troubleshooting and Support
Topic: Trying to direct connect to a Macbook with no luck
Replies: 12
Views: 7999

Re: Trying to direct connect to a Macbook with no luck

I was able to direct connect using a crossover cable and an app similar to LanScan. But I only did that because I was having issues updating the firmware. Going through a router is my preferred choice.
by TheAleMaster
Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:51 pm
Forum: Roadmap and Feature Request
Topic: BCS 4.0 Public Beta 2
Replies: 67
Views: 41569

Re: BCS 4.0 Public Beta 2

On 3.x, you have to power cycle the BCS after the update. On 4.x, it will reset and come back up on its own. It is best to monitor the tranfer from the TFTP server side. e.g. watch it tranfer the total bytes or see if it has a progress bar for the transfer. The update transfer usually takes less th...
by TheAleMaster
Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:06 am
Forum: Roadmap and Feature Request
Topic: BCS 4.0 Public Beta 2
Replies: 67
Views: 41569

Re: BCS 4.0 Public Beta 2

Oh. And the migration tool worked perfectly for me in the newest version of Safari on OS X 10.10.2 (though it might be nice to update the UI to indicate that the migration is finished rather than relying solely on a progress bar).