PC support for longetivity
This is a very cool device, but I have an issue with the mobile only nature of it. Apps on phones takes continuous development and support, or else they become buggy and eventually they may even be removed. I feel like many devices that rely on a connected smart phone have the disadvantage of losing their functionality due to lack of support.
Could we get a windows/mac/linux compatible program to use these devices with? PC programs seem to last longer than mobile apps.
I can see many people keeping the pokit devices around for a while, and I know that one doesn't particularly consider their business going under, I still think that taking into account that eventually being able to support a device may not be an option can increase it's value.
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There is an implementation on GitHub that may be of interest, depends on your familiarity with unpackaged code.
https://github.com/pcolby/qtpokit do
This isn't my repo, just the most complete work I've found using the API info released thus far.
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Joshua McMillin, Owen Gwillim - I have an Android emulator, BlueStacks, on my desktop box. It shows up in my Google Play list as being compatible with the Pokit app. Going to try installing that and give it a whirl later; will post results.
ETA: And the answer is "No." The app downloads, installs, and opens just fine under BlueStacks 5, the current iteration of the software. However, per the BlueStacks FAQ, it cannot access a computer's Bluetooth hardware. Bluetooth functionality may be added in a later rev, but as of 5 Jan 2022, no joy. (https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061235612-Bluetooth-support-on-BlueStacks-5)
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