FirstView 1.0 4+

I like that I can set up 3 distance notifications to alert me when my student’s bus is getting close to the stop. It’s a really helpful feature and will especially be helpful once the weather gets cold!

Their routes show up in the app settings, but some days not on the map, like they are set up, but not active for the day (even though the settings show they are). This means notifications don’t work on those days (which are random) AND the route can’t be followed, so we can’t make our own estimation or check that the bus got to school.

Notification are very customizable based on location, but require knowing the route before your kids get on and streets and intersection names (especially if your stop isn’t near outside your house) and there is no simple estimated time like the “classic” version. So you can spend lots of time setting them up for the locations and times you want and then 3 days a week they don’t work anyway.

I wish we could go back to the old app.

The school just moved to this new app. It's awful. Half of the time it won't alert me when the bus is near. And this morning it just deleted all of my kid's routes. I tried multiple times to add the routes back, but it won't let me. I deleted the student profile and tried starting from scratch. Nothing. I deleted the app and tried starting over again. Nothing. It keeps asking if I want to set notifications and then tells me I can't actually do that because he doesn't have any routes. AND THERE IS NO WAY TO ENTER THE ROUTES!