Hey everyone! Following up on the huge success of NAS Utils for Android, I've been hard at work on an iPhone version! It's been a long time coming, but I should have a basic version ready to go in a couple weeks. I'd like to get this in front of a few people and get some feedback before publishing to the app store. Send me your email address (via PM) if you want to participate, and I'll let you know when I have a beta ready.
Things are coming allong. Here are a couple screenshots of the progress as a teaser. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this app, it's more or less all of the essential features of frontview rolled into a mobile app, plus a few extras like wake-on-lan.
Just shipped the first beta build. Not too many folks have expressed interest. Let me know if you want to try this out - your feedback is super valuable. You'll be able to view health details for your NAS, power it on and off, etc all from your iPhone/iPad.
No sign of the email but I went to the Beta app and it gave a link to install it. On 8.2 now so no worries there. Hard to contemplate still being on 7.x. Jailbreak?
Not sure what the right feedback channel is... But since we're here. Could we please get temp display in Farenheit?
Like the clean interface. Will be nice as details fill in about other parts of the config. I was a little surprised to see that it said WOL was enabled because I don't recall it is. Will double check that later on.
That and not wanting to upgrade my iCloud to iCloud Drive that can't support older devices that I don't want to update because they wouldn't run iOS 8 well.
I was a little surprised to see that it said WOL was enabled because I don't recall it is. Will double check that later on.
Confirmed. WOL is *not* enabled, but app says it is. Model is 516 and I selected ReadyNAS 500 series. Perhaps wrong model?
Also, please for heaven's sake try a different approach to your selector! I started swearing at it since I could barely browse the list without it auto-selecting wherever it stopped after scrolling. Why no "Done" button like other similar selectors?
@fbmachines - I'll see what I can do to bring in support for 7.2.
@btaroli - Farenheit support is on the way - I'll definitely see what I can do about fixing the model selector - When you mention that the app says WOL is enabled, can you clarify? Do you mean the fact that a WOL button is shown at all? The power screen doesn't talk to your NAS at all currently, so it will show a button for WOL regardless. Does the 516 not support WOL? Or do you just have that feature turned off? Let me know, and I'll see what we can do to tighten this up.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. These are exactly the type of things I'm looking for.
- When you mention that the app says WOL is enabled, can you clarify? Do you mean the fact that a WOL button is shown at all? The power screen doesn't talk to your NAS at all currently, so it will show a button for WOL regardless. Does the 516 not support WOL? Or do you just have that feature turned off? Let me know, and I'll see what we can do to tighten this up.
Well, the toggle suggests something is turned on. But perhaps that was just to enable "broadcast?"
The 516 definitely supports it and I definitely have it turned off. With the stuff I have running there's no chance for power management features to ever be able to sleep or idle drives.
Got it. Yes, that toggle is for send as broadcast. I wouldn't necessarily suggest it, but some folks have public ips forward to broadcast to enable them to remotely send wol packets. Those folks would need to turn that flag off, so that they can target a specific ip instead of their local broadcast address.
Sounds like send as broadcast, repeats and the port should be advanced settings and not controls then.
Not sure how to handle the control to send WoL if you can't detect if WoL is enabled for the NAS (and of course some NAS don't have that feature). Perhaps a setting to hide/show the control?
Not sure how to handle the control to send WoL if you can't detect if WoL is enabled for the NAS (and of course some NAS don't have that feature). Perhaps a setting to hide/show the control?
Generally speaking it's detectable whether or not the WOL setting is on or off, but if the NAS is powered off, I definitely won't be able to tell whether or not to show it. 🙂 Do you know if there is a list of models that do/do not support WOL? I suppose I could dig through all of the manuals. On the Android version I don't show WOL for a few specific models people have told me do not support it.
