Hey, is there any difference between this hardware and your typical OBD-II Bluetooth adapter? In case not, they could market the app separately and allow people to use their existing adapters.
The last thing we wanted to do was build hardware! But, we could not deliver the experience we wanted to without building it. This blog post describes some of the reasons we built hardware - http://blog.automatic.com/why-we-built-the-link/
Does anyone know if this works for any bluetooth obd-ii adapter? I have another one I've used with Dash but wasn't sure if it will work with Automatic or if they use proprietary hardware/software.
I didn't know there was already a second generation Automatic. I pre-ordered the first one and had a lot of problems with it constantly losing connection and not tracking trips. I checked the app a few times to find out that data was just not collected, and it was just cumbersome to get the device to reconnect, with having to turn off my engine and do a dance to get it to talk to my car, that it just became a pain an…
I'm sorry you did not have a great experience with our first gen device. We're announcing the second generation device today with the developer platform. The connectivity issues some of our users experienced with the first gen device were mainly due to BTLE. The second gen device has MFi support which allows us to support classic Bluetooth with iPhones. It's much more reliable. You must have received an email with a…
Bought two devices one of myself, one for a family member. Both had same issues as parent. Support's response was basically "too bad, here's a list of things you can try every morning to maybe fix the problem." Never buying Automatic again, and I wonder when we'll hear about lawsuits if their emergency features fail during a car accident.
What do you guys use to collect / aggregate / store / analyze your users' data? Do you do any kind of aggregate analysis to get insights into patterns / behaviours?
What do you guys use to collect / aggregate / store / analyze your users' data? Do you do any kind of aggregate analysis to get insights into patterns / behaviours?
We store the data in Apache Spark using Databricks and Spark Streaming. We are working on a bunch of really cool aggregate analysis that we plan to surface in the app. Things like how does my car perform vs cars in my same class.
We have to be really careful about user's privacy, so we haven't released much yet other than our dashboard: https://dashboard.automatic.com, but I think we'll be able to start pushing insights directly into the app in the next release.
Looks like part of the movement into a world where I need to “sign in” before I'm allowed to build software. I'm sure Orwell would love this but I don't.
The real question, given your reaction, is why you'd want to build software for a closed platform?
I didn't know there was already a second generation Automatic. I pre-ordered the first one and had a lot of problems with it constantly losing connection and not tracking trips. I checked the app a few times to find out that data was just not collected, and it was just cumbersome to get the device to reconnect, with having to turn off my engine and do a dance to get it to talk to my car, that it just became a pain an…
I'm sorry you did not have a great experience with our first gen device. We're announcing the second generation device today with the developer platform. The connectivity issues some of our users experienced with the first gen device were mainly due to BTLE. The second gen device has MFi support which allows us to support classic Bluetooth with iPhones. It's much more reliable. You must have received an email with a…
You should offer discounts to all who kickstarted your product. I'm also disappointed and don't look at the app anymore as it's missing trips and because we share a car with my wife, trips either get registered to her or my phone when we're in the car together. Haven't you thought about this basic use case?
For Android developers who don't want to get locked into Automatic as a platform I recommend the Torque app. It has the same basic functionality, costs less, supports a variety of third-party Bluetooth OBD2 readers, and provides a plugin development API.
For Android developers who don't want to get locked into Automatic as a platform I recommend the Torque app. It has the same basic functionality, costs less, supports a variety of third-party Bluetooth OBD2 readers, and provides a plugin development API. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq... http://torque-bhp.com/
For Android developers who don't want to get locked into Automatic as a platform I recommend the Torque app. It has the same basic functionality, costs less, supports a variety of third-party Bluetooth OBD2 readers, and provides a plugin development API. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq... http://torque-bhp.com/