BlueFire Data Adapter - Customizing Your Dash; Make It Easy and Comfortable; Demo Data Vs Connected Data

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Customizing your Dash

Make it Easy and Comfortable

You don't have to be connected to the adapter to build your dash. You can do it from the comfort

of your sofa or lounge chair.

Get yourself one of those touch sensitive pens that allow you to touch the display of your device.

They make it much easier to drag and drop gauges.

Demo Data vs Connected Data

When the App starts for the first time, it defaults to showing demo data. This is where all the

pages show data that simulates connected to an adapter. For designing your dash, this is handy

since it helps you define the size of the gauge. It also allows you to see and demonstrate the

capabilities of the App without having to have an adapter.

Demo data is turned off automatically if you have connected/disconnected from an adapter or if

you have started a trip. If you are connected to an adapter, the data shown is what is being

retrieved from your vehicle ECMs. When you disconnect from the adapter, which ever pages that

were shown with ECM data will maintain that data until you close the App. To return to showing

demo data you must restart the App. ECM data is not persisted when restarting the App.

The exception to showing demo data after starting the App is if you have started a trip and the trip

is in progress. In this case the App will start and only show your trip data in all the pages until you

connect to the adapter. This allows you to cancel or end the trip without having to connect to the

adapter. Likewise you can start a trip without connecting to the adapter but to do this you must

first turn off showing demo data.

Once your dash is designed and you're ready to rock-n-roll you might want to turn off demo data

so you don't get confused when you start the App and see the demo data especially the trip data.

You can turn demo data on and off with the 'Do Not Show Demo (Default) Data' option in the

Settings page.

Note, on Apple devices, 'Demo Data' is shown as 'Default Data'. The reason is because Apple does

not allow the word “demo” to be used anywhere in their Apps. Our App got rejected by Apple

when we first submitted it so the word demo had to be changed to default.