Thread: 2008 and another great year has passed??

Originally Posted by Nola111

Hilarious, Cannonball. Unfortunately, you can probably hear the echoes bouncing off the walls of the Streetdeck offices...

I posted a 79 paragraph (give or take 74) complaint letter on the beta testers' forum, almost a week ago, and not one Streetdeck staff member has replied to it or even acknowledged it. It absolutely blows me away, and I'm not easily moved.

I am guessing most (if not all) of the SD team is at CES... do perhaps they will reply soon.

Originally Posted by marchello2000

I am guessing most (if not all) of the SD team is at CES... do perhaps they will reply soon.

I can't believe they would be actually showing anything at CES though.. what do they have to show?

Sad part about reading this post is I am sure most of the SD & Mp3car workers agree 100%, I have honestly completely written off ever seeing a working blue tooth for SD. I am not a developer by any means and this is why I opted to pay for the software but I cant see Blue tooth taking 2+ years with no completion date in sight. When I heard you need a specific BT dongle from mp3car to get BT working I was thinking "man that stinks..." now I would just be happy if it actually worked.

For the moment, I'm also writing off Streetdeck... it just seems like the support and development just isn't there. I have just taken a long distance trip with my friend's carputer that I built for him...and it was honestly a nightmare with Streetdeck. It crashed many times unexpectedly while just playing music. Navigation using Mappoint wasn't so great...I brought along a Garmin NUVI just in case...and I'm glad I did.

While I were at our destination, I decided to switch over to Centrafuse to see how that would work (I had it installed already but an old version that wasn't so great, but updated to 1.46)...it wasn't as much "flash" as Streetdeck, but it did work very nicely. The support is there...they are actively tackling bugs and it seems alot easier for people to develop plugins for...what I like best about Centrafuse is that it had integrated WiFi, Browser, multi-Navigation engine support...and Bluetooth actually works! It is very stable and I'm pretty impressed.

For now, I'll have to recommend other solutions other than Streetdeck to friends...I really do hope they have an Ace up their sleeve soon...because I really want to believe that Streetdeck is the best.

Originally Posted by Caelric

Because digital mods can't be used while you are moving (unless in test mode), thus making it somewhat pointless to have a "hands free" phone solution that doesn't work when you need it the most.

Thats not true! Adding the following code in your digimod (c#, but also possible in built in language) makes it "safe":

Code:

{
      module = app.CreateModule("ModuleName");
      module.IsSafe += new IModuleEvents_IsSafeEventHandler(module_IsSafe);
}

bool module_IsSafe()
{
      return true;
}

Thats it...