Heimdall. The watchman who needs less sleep than a bird and can hear grass grow. This release is mostly the desk: a page of its own in Settings, a clock you can dress, and a squad that stands bigger when it visits.
Desk mode has its own settings. Settings' DESK MODE row opens a page instead of the desk itself, and so does the new gear at the bottom left of the desk. It holds the desk's background, the clock's font, size and backdrop, the time zone, and the squad: whether it shows under the clock, how many, and whether one visitor chats in place or does the full visit from the main screen. OK leaves Settings for wherever you came from; UP goes back to the main list.
The clock can be dressed. Digital segments or Bangers, small, medium or large, and seven backdrops inside its box: plain, digital rain, snow, flying toasters, fire, starfield and fireflies. Tap the left or right fifth of the clock to step through them. Over a backdrop the text keeps a thin dark outline and nothing else, so the backdrop shows through. Only fire keeps any memory, about 2 KB, and only while it is showing.
Squads stand bigger. Crowds stand in overlapping rows like a group photo, each count choosing the shape that makes them largest, and costumes no longer shrink anyone while there is company. Two on the desk stand a fifth bigger with their words up on the clock. The visitor waves hello and then talks, instead of waving for the whole visit.
DESK replaces CLR on the main screen. Holding it still unlocks the outfits. CLR lives on the LOG screen, next to the log it clears.
An update says so. A System Properties window opens when a newer release is out, found at boot or heard from a squad member, with what changed on its NOTES tab. The boot check that finds it takes about 3 seconds instead of 13.
SNOOZE is one device. It quiets the device on the alert until the board restarts, instead of a whole type for an hour.
The actually-useful part
Added
- DESK MODE page in Settings, and a gear on the desk that opens it.
- Clock font (digital or Bangers), clock size, and seven clock backdrops.
- VISITOR on the desk: chat in place, or the full visit.
- The System Properties update window, with release notes.
- An iBeacon counter column when beacons are switched on.
Changed
- The main screen's third button is DESK; CLR is on the LOG screen.
- Crowds overlap in rows and stand larger; costumes do not shrink a squad.
- SNOOZE quiets one device until restart.
- The boot update check is about four times faster.
- A squad update shares only a WiFi network that is actually in range.
- Ring cameras count as CAM.
- The digital clock shows only its lit segments.
- Background buffers are freed when their background is not showing.
Fixed
- Squachy running off the screen on patrol beside a visitor.
- Squachy's size twitching every few frames with company.
- The clock sitting off centre, and its box growing more than it needed at ten o'clock.
- Detection staying off after an auto-lock on the squad update screen.
- Alerts held back while the update window was open.
- The saved home network reported as not found when the scan used up the join's time.
- Starfield debris showing behind the desk's buttons.
- A visitor's speech bubble going black when your Squachy spoke in a crowd.