Balmar SmartLink 4+

This is a very basic app that displays the information already available on the monitor.

It needs graphs with a history of voltage, SOC, and Amps used to make it worth the $50 investment in the Bluetooth dongle.

Also, every time it starts you need to choose to use it or have a demo, which seems silly, just connect.

This system has so much potential but in my opinion the gateway and app haven’t yet reached a quality level sufficient to release to consumers. While there is a lot of potential, I fought stability issues last year and missed release of the upgrade that fixed much of this. What other app makes you search for updates rather than notifying you. Now that I have the latest stability of the gateway is better but this weekend I find out the Advanced Settings page is unusable. Goes crazy after changing a parameter and won’t let you save the change.

Software locks up trying to connect to the network on a frequent basis. When this happens the only resolution is to disconnect it from power. Upon reconnecting to power it will connect for a while and the it locks up again.

From firmware version to firmware version the state of health changes radically, from always being at 100% to dropping to 57% just from updating the firmware.

It would also be nice to eliminate the startup screen choice of demo or actually running the app. Just launch the app.

Historical information would also be nice.