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/
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and
Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App,
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