Darren Clemons
Well-Known Member
With the new release of J Field last week came the "show/hide pop ups" button which, of course, the first one had the magnificent seven surveyors add on there.
This got me thinking of how valuable a tool this could be for all of us LS users. The updates for the LS of course are automatically available via the Internet and we are notified any time there's one available. But with my Triumph 1M and my HPT435BT radio, I never know if/when there may be a firmware update unless I hook up to Netview or Modem VU and I'll basically never do that unless I have an issue. This pop up ability on the LS would be a great way to have notices of firmware updates to those units sent to us as users. Yes, there are different combos we all use like the Triumph 1, Triumph 2, different radios, etc., but how about we use our login information to "subscribe" to which updates we want to be notified about?
Those updates are few and far between and are not nearly as critical as the updates to the LS, but they are needed from time to time and usually we don't figure out they're needed until somethings not working in the field and we've lost a days work.
Another off the wall use would be to use the pop up to send us notifications of high solar flare activity (yes it's rare but it does happen). Ive had three or four days in the last few years where it was just shut er down and go home they were so bad. There are a few websites that let you track solar flare activity but again, usually I'm already in the field and things are going wrong before I think to check. If I'm thinking correctly these happen a couple days before they affect us, so there'd be some time to notify.
There could potentially be numerous things this "notifications" set up on the LS could be used for, those are just a few I've come up with so far.
This got me thinking of how valuable a tool this could be for all of us LS users. The updates for the LS of course are automatically available via the Internet and we are notified any time there's one available. But with my Triumph 1M and my HPT435BT radio, I never know if/when there may be a firmware update unless I hook up to Netview or Modem VU and I'll basically never do that unless I have an issue. This pop up ability on the LS would be a great way to have notices of firmware updates to those units sent to us as users. Yes, there are different combos we all use like the Triumph 1, Triumph 2, different radios, etc., but how about we use our login information to "subscribe" to which updates we want to be notified about?
Those updates are few and far between and are not nearly as critical as the updates to the LS, but they are needed from time to time and usually we don't figure out they're needed until somethings not working in the field and we've lost a days work.
Another off the wall use would be to use the pop up to send us notifications of high solar flare activity (yes it's rare but it does happen). Ive had three or four days in the last few years where it was just shut er down and go home they were so bad. There are a few websites that let you track solar flare activity but again, usually I'm already in the field and things are going wrong before I think to check. If I'm thinking correctly these happen a couple days before they affect us, so there'd be some time to notify.
There could potentially be numerous things this "notifications" set up on the LS could be used for, those are just a few I've come up with so far.