Bugs/missing key features in Powered Up app

[biasedlogic]

Hi,

I have found a few quirks with the Powered Up app, I consider these bugs. I have made a post about these on my microsite: https://www.biasedlogic.com/index.php/lego-poweredup-bugs/

In short summary:

1. While LEGO advertises the Large Technic Motor (not only) as having an absolute position encoder there's no way of getting this position in the Powered Up App
2. While all data ports in the Powered Up app support very large numbers without a hitch, you can't type in / read out anything beyond 9999.99. Annoying as position for motors can be only specified in degrees and 9999 degrees is less than 28 turns.
3. Specifying negative relative distance for a motor to move makes it still move in positive direction (WTF?)
4. Logic functions have only AND and OR, but not XOR or NOT, especially the missing negation is hard to understand.

For some issues there are workarounds, I have described them on my site with pictures, I don't want to redo the work in the forum and pictures are worth 1000 words...

Am I missing something or these are actual faults?

best regards,

M. 

[Andman]

Did you report your findings to TLG?

[biasedlogic]

1 minute ago, Andman said:

Did you report your findings to TLG?

I sent three of them (before discovering the #3) to googleplayapps@lego.com ; the address provided in the PlayStore as developer contact. If there's a better way of reporting these I'd love to know.

[Andman]

I would try this too: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/service/email-us/details/Technical Questions/Mobile Apps

[biasedlogic]

10 minutes ago, Andman said:

I would try this too: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/service/email-us/details/Technical Questions/Mobile Apps

I actually had the same idea after replying to your last post, I sent them emails through that form too (on the Powered Up issues as well as on the ev3 Classroom issue I described in separate thread).

I'll keep you updated in case I hear back from them... ?