Originally posted by Ray S:
I'm in! Finally!
Welcome!
1: An undo option when deleting notes. I deleted a few by accident and an undo would have been great.
Good suggestion.
2: Encrypt the email password. I'm not really comfortable with it being in plain text for everyone to see.
Yeah, I didn't feel good about this
. My work-around is to use a new gmail account just for stoker. That way, if anyone hijacks it, it doesn't matter.
But I will investigate it for the future.
3: Instead of showing all the notes all the time, it would be nice if there was a way to minimize the notes. maybe just have the notes show a little flag, and when you mouse over the flag the note pops up- similar to comments in Excel.
Managing notes is a big pain. The graph control I use doesn't really have good support for this. It has taken me weeks to get this far with the thing.
But your suggestion is a good one. I will have to see if there is an easy way to enable it.
4: Is there a way to change the color of the notes? That would be great too.
No there is not but easy to add.
5: Select the blower from within Stokerlog. I am using a Chargriller, so when I empty the ash pan I have to disconnect the blower. When I plug it back in Stokerlog says no blower detected. I then go back into the Stoker web interface and select the blower on the pit probe.
When I wrote the program, I didn't know how to do this. But now, I do so it shouldn't take much work to put it in. The trick is the user interface. Let me think about this one.
6: Is there a way to send to more than 1 email address? it would be cool if I could send to my phone and my son's (he's my partner in queue) so we can both stay on top of things.
There is not right now. I would have to duplicate the current code which is a pain given all the registry entries to remember the settings. If you have not gotten the message by now, I am a bit too lazy about things like this
. If there is broader need, I will put it in there.
7: I noticed there is a field for Web Alarm in the alarm settings. How do you actually select a web alarm and what does it do?
This is a catch all field. I just fire off whatever URL you put in there and you can do with it as you please. People used to use this for email but now that we have dedicated functionality for it, it is not used as much. But I am happy to enhance it if needed but would need someone to test it.
8: What would really be the cat's meow, is if I had some way of monitoring in real time on my Windows Mobile device. If it used telnet to display the stuff in real time like it does on a PC, or even a web interface that auto refreshed every so often, let you change controls, and sounded an alarm. That way you could have a remote control.
Yes, I have thought about porting it over. It is a big project though so it will probably be tackled when I am done with other useful features.
For now, the graph email does a decent job of keeping you notified at least and you can use the web interface for control.
These are just a few things I thought of while I was using it. I have only used it a couple times, so some of these may be possible already and I just haven't figured it out yet, but it sure would be nice of some of this could be incorporated into version 6...
That was a great list! I was starting to think there would be nothing past version 5.1
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Keep the suggestions coming. I will probably get a seocnd wind and go dig into the code once more....
