We are adding two major pieces of software to be used with our products – Voyage Cloud, a cloud solution for your ride logs; and Voyage Connect, a new mobile app to replace the good old Metr app.
Voyage Cloud (beta)
Voyage Cloud is already available in the beta and if you don’t mind encountering minor glitches here and there, you are very welcome to create an account at [Voyage Cloud] and use it. Feedback as well as bug reports are much appreciated.
The Cloud is available for the new devices – Megan and Minnie, as well as the for the Metr modules. With Megan and Minnie, your ride data gets into the cloud directly over Wi-Fi. With Metr modules, which don’t have a Wi-Fi, you first need to get the data synced to the Metr app and then it gets uploaded from there.
Some notable features:
- dashboard
- user profiles
- PEV profiles
- customizable ride log table
- analytics - have your ride log data plotted in charts
- responsive design
Best to see pics below.
Cloud quick start
- Update your Metr app to the latest version
- Create an account at [Voyage Cloud]
- Log in
- Go to Garage and add your devices
There’s a little question mark icon that explains how to do it:
For now now, only the Metr app part is relevant since Voyage Connect is not yet publicly available (see below).
Voyage Connect
Voyage Connect is a new mobile app that is currently being tested by our trusted team of testers. We’ll be making it available to public this summer. We designed the Connect hand-in-hand with the Cloud so they play together nicely. The main improvement over the Metr app is the use of user accounts. You can now have all your Megans, Minnies, and Metrs associated with a single account and manage everything easily from one place. Apart from that, there are a lot of improvements in the UI that should make the app much easier to use than Metr.
Connect is currently only available for the new devices – Megan and Minnie.
Voyage world vs Metr world
We had some difficult design decisions to make regarding the relation between the new cloud solution at cloud.voyagesystems.eu and the old cloud solution at metr.at since we didn’t want to disturb the users who are happy with their Metr app and with how everything has been working so far but at the same time we wanted to make the Voyage Cloud available for everyone. This lead to some trade-offs.
We now like to think of the infrastructure as two worlds:
- Voyage world = Voyage Cloud + Voyage Connect app
- Metr world = metr.at Cloud + Metr app
To retain backwards compatibility and to keep things simple, all ride logs are uploaded to both cloud servers, i.e. they go to both worlds. However, after that, the two worlds are kept isolated. In practical terms this means that any changes done in the Voyage world are not reflected in the Metr world and vice versa.
For example, if you delete a ride log in your Voyage Cloud account, the log won’t disappear from the metr.at cloud or from the Metr app.
We don’t think this is something that should trouble people too much but we wanted to specifically caution against this to prevent confusion.
Screenshots
Enough talking. Let’s see some pics.
