V1 Integration with the ALP

[BestRadarDetectors]

OK, Give us your ideas? Having the ability to use ALP Connect to make settings and adjustments or just display output? Do you think V1 integration needs to be able to set custom sweeps or are you fine with setting it with other products and just connecting the V1 to the ALP to get alerts, frequencies and directions is enough? Let me hear your wish list for this integration.

[FJR1300]

Hmm, well all of the above would be nice obviously, especially if it is going to be integrated with the gps to enable at least manual lockouts. But, it'd probably make more sense to start with just display and frequency information and gather feedback, there may be an adoption hindrance from users reluctant to leave yav1.

Will it stay in background until an alert and revert back afterwards?

[BestRadarDetectors]

Hmm, well all of the above would be nice obviously, especially if it is going to be integrated with the gps to enable at least manual lockouts. But, it'd probably make more sense to start with just display and frequency information and gather feedback, there may be an adoption hindrance from users reluctant to leave yav1.

Will it stay in background until an alert and revert back afterwards?

The way ALP Connect works now is that it can run in the background and come forward during an alert but then it will stay there unless you hit the back button to go back to the previous running app.

[Holla]

I would say Yes, to be able to set up custom KA sweeps-it does help the range of the V-1

[FJR1300]

That's liveable, I could have sworn it went back automatically when I had a poliscan false last weekend, I must have instinctively brought waze back up front.

I'd still use it though as I'm concerned about data speeds/possible conflicts while running V1C & ALP Connect dongles simultaneously.

[BestRadarDetectors]

That's liveable, I could have sworn it went back automatically when I had a poliscan false last weekend, I must have instinctively brought waze back up front.

I'd still use it though as I'm concerned about data speeds/possible conflicts while running V1C & ALP Connect dongles simultaneously.

Yes, The integration would eliminate the use of the V1 BT adapter since the V1 would be connected directly to the ALP's RG Module.

[Vortex]

If you're going to eliminate the need for the V1C LE, you do want a way for people to configure their V1 and enable custom sweeps. You can't do sweeps otherwise and that's a very important feature.

[Mirage]

If you're going to eliminate the need for the V1C LE, you do want a way for people to configure their V1 and enable custom sweeps. You can't do sweeps otherwise and that's a very important feature.

I agree with @Vortex. If the V1C is eliminated, users that have never used either the V1C and app or YaV1 will never have the ability to sweep their V1. That being said I think configuring sweeps in the app will be a must. I would also want an export feature to export GPS coordinates, speed, frequency. Sure would be nice to have the output display on a map for later reference. The biggest thing on the V1 would be to figure out how to eliminate the K band falses attributed to collision avoidance systems similar to the Audi's. Most operate in the 24 ghz band and look like
67ms POP. The ability to disable K band pop where it is not used or the ability to filter it when in city mode would be a huge plus. This is my biggest complaint with the V1 and RedLine. Stinger has managed to eliminate these falses through advanced filtering sure would be nice to see the same thing happen on the V1. Obviously K Band filtering will be necessary as well either through GPS like YaV1 or through some other means. With as good as the V1 is at detecting radar signals, the drawback is it's continuous alerts. A noisy detector will get you in big trouble because you will either disable the source of the noise (ie K band) and risk catching the one real threat that should not have been filtered or you will live with the noise and become desensitized to the alerts eventually resulting in a ticket.

I'm going to have to think about other features, but these are the main ones that would make it worth the integration.

[FJR1300]

+1 on the map integration with alert markers, and if that is done, maybe alp alerts too.

[Vortex]

So what would be the main benefit of using the ALP integration vs using the V1/YaV1 running alongside the current ALP app? As it stands now, they play well together. You could run both apps in the background for example while running Waze in the foreground. I'm curious what additional features or benefits would come from the ALP app that we don't currently get now with the two apps.

For iOS users it may be different since they don't have YaV1.