IPENG 9S APPLE WATCH APP GETS AN UPDATE. Now, with iPeng 9.5, we have updated to the watchOS 3/4 platform.
USE THE DIGITAL CROWN TO CHANGE THE VOLUME While watchOS 1 apps are running on your iPhone, watchOS 2 and newer lets the app run directly on the watch. The most immediate change you will notice after the update is that iPeng can now finally make use of the digital crown to change the player volume. This allows you to change the volume much faster than before by simply turning the crown. To illustrate this, the volume indicator is now symbolized by a (round) dial instead of a bar. USE COMPLICATIONS TO QUICKLY LAUNCH THE APP FROM THE WATCH FACE Another new feature is Complications, which you can add to your watch face. Depending on the watch face and the type of complication you select, it will show an icon for the currently selected player and the player name or the current volume. Tapping the complication directly launches the app. OTHER CHANGES IN THE WATCHOS APP But the switch to the new watchOS versions also comes with some downsides: Apple no longer lets us bundle the original watchOS 1 app with iPeng, so iPeng 9.5 now requires your watch to run at least under watchOS 3. Also, while performance on the new Apple Watch Series 3 is pretty good, the app can feel a bit slower on the original Apple Watch (Series 0). That is because the processor on this old watch is slow and the app can no longer use the resources of your iPhone. USE THE MUSIC, WALK WITH ME-PLUGIN FOR QUICKSWITCH One more feature seeing a change is QuickSwitch when selecting a player on the watch. So far, the feature allowed you to move your music (the current playlist) directly from one player to another. This now requires the Music, Walk With Me-plugin to be installed on your Logitech Media server and will no longer work with MySqueezebox.com. The reason is that the feature requires continuous communication with the server over several commands, which isnt possible in a reliable and quick way on watchOS. The old app could do this by calling the main iPeng app on iOS, but since watchOS 2 this is no longer possible. You can install the plugin simply from the Settings->Plugins section in your servers web interface. Overall, if you have one of the newer Apple Watch models, iPeng 9.5 will make iPeng on Apple Watch much more usable and useful, you get really quick actions and volume changes, we hope you will enjoy it! http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2018/06/01/watchs-up/ [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/WINowPlaying-420x756.png] [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/WIComplication-420x756.png] --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104537
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