Rovio Control - for Wowwee's Rovio for iOS

By Tommy Kammerer $4.99

Developer's Description

By Tommy Kammerer

This is a remote control application for Wowwee's Rovio. Of course it is only useful if you already have the Rovio hardware.Keyfeatures:Now also available for your Apple Watch. You can play existing paths forwards, send Rovio to the dock and take photos from your wrist.Full auto configuration in your network or in ad hoc mode. Don't hassle around with IP addresses.Supports different setting profiles for local network / public access.Always know the status of your Rovio: docked, roaming, going home, executing path, recording path.Take photos with a tap of a button.Easy to use joystick control movement in 8 directions.Let Rovio talk: send funny audio files to your Rovio.Set home location, enable / disable IR Radar, reboot Rovio and more!Shows strength of navigation signal and wifi.Allows adjusting camera position quickly. Guard mode.Turn on / off LED light. AGC and night mode.Play and record paths.Shows battery status.All graphics are optimized for the retina display.This application is not endorsed by Wowwee and Wowwee is not offering support for the app. If you are experience any problems please use www.digitalsirup.com to get in touch with me.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.8

Now also available for your Apple Watch. You can play existing paths forwards, send Rovio to the dock and take photos from your wrist.Added path menu button. You can play existing paths forwards and backwards and also record new paths.Press and hold the "going home"-button opens a new men. In this menu you can for example cancel every action Rovio does at the moment, go home (without docking), go home and dock (like pressing the "going home"-button) and update the current position as new home location in front of the charging station.When opening the settings, only the video stream is now shown in background (without all the distracting HUD). There is also a new setting, that allows to turn off the video stream background in the settings.All video streaming issues that came with iOS 6 are fixed, the video streaming performance now is incredible. Unfortunately with this update Rovio Control requires iOS 8.0 or higher.Another new setting: "light switch action". It can automatically enable AGC or Rovios Night Mode when turning on the light.iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus optimization. Increased the status pull time when using the internet profile and decreased the status pull time when using the local wifi profile.Fixed a problem that could cause in some cases showing a wrong head status.Improved the scanning for Rovio in you local network. And added the option to manual setup everything.When the guard mode is enabled the upper left status label shows "guard mode".Minor improvements and optimizations.