It would be great if you could let me know how it works on a real device.
Thanks for realizing my suggestion! Yes, landscape view works great on all my Android devices (phones, tablets), with no more scrolling 👍 . As in the previous screenshot shown, i also figured out how to get rid of the nbd "title row" <Nova Trainer (
title) - nova-premium.pages.dev (
subtitle)>, when i open the ball settings page in landscape view. Here for example a screenshot of my
Powerpong Omega tablet which has a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution (apparently users could adjust the Chrome browser's setting "Zoom"
versus the Android's general setting "Screen zoom"/"Display size"/"Screen size"/"Screen scaling"/"Display scaling" or similar in order to adjust how the webapp appears on screen, very cool):
In landscape view, i'd suggest that the parameter values be placed
above the slider, and not right-aligned because the "+" symbol is right-aligned too: when i tap on the "+" symbol with my fat finger, i cannot see its changing value, nor the corresponding changes in the interactivity of the other values (
Speed ,
Spin ,
Height), which are interdependent.
The bottom-left text line "Lands half-long , 90 cm from your ..." is ~clear to understand but too long to fit: the text line gets cut off. Instead, how about introducing 2 dashed lines along the table edge lines to track the position of the landing spot (Cartesian coordinates)? Here we go:
So far i did the full 23-step procedure of the calibration "Install Wizard" (enjoying it!🤩). I found a reversible way to overlay the grid whenever i want:
... and would suggest that for each step the robot shoots out 3 (or 4 or 5) balls in ~rapid succession, so that the user could pinpoint the '
average' landing point with more confidence ... since a landing spot always comes with variance due to etc., instead of me clicking <Didn't see it> - <Play ball> over and over again. For an install wizard, how about a
button to go back 1 step (= automatically erase the current and previous step, in order to start the previous step afresh)?
The balls i use with the Nova are a mix of Joola Weinixiun Huieson Powerpong,
AND i still use the rubber band mod on my wheels. [I re-checked, the advantage of the rubber band mod is that the wheels have so much more grip ((and doht get clogged, doht get altered by age/wear/temperature, never need replacement, etc)) (((the only disadvantage was that possibly etc)))] — I am mentioning
this because it affects the calibration and the Nova's accuracy on my system.
I did a test robi2pon session with your Nova Trainer app ("NT app") and am very pleased that everything works neatly. Some observations:
1) the balls generated by
+Var, e.g. ball4a and ball4b, do not have a
Scatter parameter anymore oic. I guess that makes sense: either ball4 has a
Scatter parameter or it has clearly defined variants 4a vs 4b.
2) after starting a drill in landscape view, the
Stop and
Pause buttons are not in view.
3) after a drill has ended, the app automatically returns to home (= the webapp homepage). instead, the app should stay in the drill start screen, so that the user needs only 1 tap to restart the drill.
4) during the calibration procedure, some balls are meant to land short near the sides of the table. there
would be a second bounce if the table were wider. so should i answer yes or no to the question of whether there was a second bounce?
5) does or should the calibration
Quick check improve and finetune the existing calibration? i did several subsequent runs through the
Quick check procedure, and sometimes the
Result says 'model recalculated', but when i re-run the
Quick check again (and again and etc), there are still long balls which land out, etc. In other words, i never manage to get a run through
Quick check which consumes exactly 9 balls, even though the model got recalculated several times.
