Hi I just received my two SBrick today.
I tried to connect them to my phone and my tablet. They pair up ok, but when in SBrick application, the #Discovering Sbricks" sign goes on forever
Also, it says in the quick setup paper, that the LED light should light up, when it's connected to power source. Both of mine just blink once - is that what is it supposed to be, or is something wrong.
About my mobile devices - I have Sony Xperia SP mobile phone running Android 4.3 and LG G-Tab running Android 4.4.2
I couldn't find any actual data that they do or don't support BLE.
Thanks for your answer.
Best regards, miha
Hello!
I have a Samsung s3 gt i9300 (android 4.3).
Unable to find sbrick - "discovering sbricks" and nothing more.
I have tried several different bricks.
Reinstalling the program's nothing changed.
Version 0.19
Samsung Galaxy Pro 12.2
Android 4.4.2
Taking some scenes for a video this morning and tested latest version. Found (at least in my case) that Android app has serious problems to control 2 SBricks.
Only managed to control properly one of them. For some reason, just one or the other works properly. When trying to use motors attached to the second SBrick, they kind of whistle and do not run.
Ports are still wrongly mapped.
Port inversion works on port test, but do not with profiles.
Many problems handling profiles and frequent crashes.
Had difficulties to add second SBrick, so decided to uninstal/install app again. Then it was possible to add 2nd SBrick and keep it after save.
Also experienced occasional problems like Sariel, where some controls disappeard from profiles.
The android version is still quite immature. So I ended shooting some scenes with iPhone app.
Also something that should be easy and fast to implement. Display the app version somewhere from the home menu.
Just to make sure we easily know the version we are actually using.
Thank you for your report. We resolved of the port positions and soon release the new version (020).
Thank you
[blockquote]Istvan Barada said: Hello, I have installed. The B output is port C. The inverter still not working for me. Sometimes very slow response, specially at high Rpm[/blockquote]
Like Christian says the app need a search function.
Regards,
Frederic
From my first trials with the Android app, the "add Set" function is FUBAR. It starts with a bunch of sets from 1965, and once you found that you have to choose the year from the top right menu, you get a fat selection of all sets in 2014: Duplo, Friends, Valentine promotion, whatever. Somewhere in this armlong list there are the five or six sets that might make sense to use with an SBrick application. You can't search by set number, and you are drowned in an ocoean of sets that even with a mother lode of fantasy nobody will ever consider to equip with an SBrick.
Come on, guys, whatever set selector you chose here - it definitely was the wrong choice for this project. Why don't you just list the sets that actually HAVE power function items? We're talking of a small subset - A handful of technic models and the train sets. And make it searchable by keyword and number - The year it was issued is a complete trainwreck when it comes to selection criteria. I either have to dig through a few years of sets, or look up the year of issue on BL first.
I sincerely hope that by the time the SBrick will be available you also will have a usable App.
Will you provide documentation on the SBrick communication protocol? Or maybe provide a usable, documented API? So far, I haven't written an Android application before, but with the cuttent state of the app I'm tempted to start one.
Leg bedre,
Christian
BT 4.0 includes Low Energy (BLE), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Bluetooth_v4.0
That's why if your phone has BT4.0 it probably has BLE (unless the vendor made some dirty cheap options, but yours is a Samsung so I doubt it).
But Google only included support for the BLE part with Android 4.3, that's why you have BT working but only like BT 2.x or BT 3.x. So if you can upgrade to Android 4.3 or even better 4.4 then you will get full BT 4.0 (meaning also BLE) withou loosing anything. You said your phone is rooted so you have more upgrade options.
The gateway option in another topic with USB OTG will work...but only when Vengit includes support for it in the SBrick App for Android... and they're still at 0.0.16, an alpha version. So if you want SBrick with your S2+ in a few weeks your only option is the upgrade.
S2+ already has 4.0. Maybe I can flash 4.3 or 4.4 custom fw on it, but BLE is not backward compatible, is it? So I'm not helped with Android 4.4 and BT 4.0, if BT chip in phone doesn't support BLE itself...
What about bluegiga ble112 dongle and android app, mentioned in another topic? I already have USB OTG and rooted phone. :)
Well, here it says it has BT 4.0
http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_a536-6674.php
But you know, don't trust everything you read on the net.
Hi Jorge,
I have Samsung Galaxy S II Plus, the last firmware is 4.2.2, no chance to get 4.3. When I ordered the SBrick, I read a lot after the phone, and it seemed it has 4.0 LE, but only today tried to download the app.
I planned to buy a cheap Lenovo A536 with android 4.4, but I don't think it has 4.0 LE.
Hello all Developers!
I ordered an SBrick in july, I'm an early adopter. Today I got the message that I will receive my brick in days/weeks. Hurray!
So I thought I have to try out the android app in time, for no surprise.
I recognized that my phone has BT4.0 but no LE. I can't buy other phone because of the lego remote controll function, so what next?
thx Laci
0.0.16, Sony Xperia Z1, Android 4.4.4
First run, Manage bricks now shows my SBrick (previously nothing showed up). 3 actions available (Identify led, Port tester and OTA):
Identify led (does nothing)
Port tester shows 4 horizontal slides (A, B, C, D) and 4 buttons (reset A, reset B, reset C, reset D) like when editing My linked Sbricks
but slides seem wrong:
slide A controls port C
slide B OK
slide C controls D
slide D does nothing but perhaps controls A (A is one of the ports I had problems since the beginning in my python tests)
OTA: " function available soon"
This was first run. Next runs and Manage bricks show nothing again. Don't wanto to clear all aplication data again to see if it works again.
Edit: Powering off the SBrick and turning it on again seems to bring it again so perhaps it has something to do with BLE session.
I now have "Joystick" profile. It gives two controls: Steering and Acceleration. With a motor on A and mapping Steering to A i can control the motor with the position of the phone (there is also a enable button on the display, On/Off, so this control works only when On).
At the Linked Sbricks, SBrick channels still wrong: B and C are switched, A and D are OK. Strange because in "Manage bricks" B it's OK. More strange: A is working !? What a mess!
And if tap the arrow it shows "SBrick Port tester", the same 4 slides and 4 reset buttons as above
"Steering wheel 1" and "Steering wheel 2" profiles seem the same as "Joystick": two vailable controls (Steering and Acceleration) and one On/Off button on the display whem running, the only difference seems the location: sw1 in one corner of the display and sw2 in other corner.
Hi, Javier,
Thanks for the tip. I'm having a loot at it tonight. I wonder why they start with 1965, when Power Functions popped up no earlier than 2008.
Sadly there is no documentation yet. If you need someone to help, to proofread, whatever, just drop me a note. I could do a German translation, too.
Leg bedre,
Christian
Hello Christian.
There is no documentation available yet.
When you click on "add sets", you hace to realized that in the top of the window, at the right of the Sbrick logo, you can see Lego Models years, beginning with 1965.
You have to pass across the years moving your finger from right to left or you can choose one year, using the menu key of your phone and only one option is activated "Select Year" and a list with all the years are shown. Then you can select one year and all the models of this year are shown. This function is not clear and I don't know the sense of this but...
I also wonder if the source of the SBrick will be open source in the future, at least the source of the APP.
Cheers!
Just a few questions about the SBrick software.
Is the source of the SBrick software available? Do you intend to make it available at a time in the future? Alternatively, is there a public available android library/API for the SBrick?
At the moment, I'm less than impressed with the software - I donwloaded it yesterday and I clicked on "add sets" and it only gave me the oddest assortment of sets one can imagine - it looked a bit like "the ten oldest LEGO set on bricklink" or something like that.
Is there any kind of documentation available for this?
Leg bedre,
Christian
