Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice
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I have put out a Holidays edition of BullsEyeHelper with a new feature.
At any given time, the action surrounding your jet is concentrated in only a part of the BullsEye chart, say, the South-East corner.
Since things can get quite small on a phone (less so on a tablet), I found that it would be nice to be able to dedicate as much screen area as possible to the part with the relevant activity.
A new feature in this Holidays edition is therefore Zoom In/Out controls. You zoom in/out with those and then drag the view until you are happy with the focus area.
These screenshots show it in action:
Look out for the next version 2.40 (out soon).
Happy flying!
-JayB
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Hello all,
A new year, so time for Tablet Treatment !
The BullsEyeHelper app is very well suited for use with a tablet, especially since it became possible to place markers by simply tapping the screen. Obviously, the larger the screen, the more easy to do accurate placement.
I recently got a tablet myself but realised to my horror that the layout was not good (the previous release with zoom capability may have messed up the layout on tablets, apologies for that).
Depending on screen resolution, tablet users could come across bad layouts such as these:
The BullseyeHelper app has now been fixed to use the screen better on both phones and tablets. In addition, some minor cleanup of the page has been done as well.
Look out for version 2.45, should be available as an update from Google Play very soon.
Feedback is welcome, as always.
-JayB
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@jayb Loved the ‘to my horror’ part
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@foxster
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Just a heads-up, the “hard” Practice mode is FUBARed in the latest release. In case anyone wonders why nothing happens when tapping/pressing that.
It will be fixed for the next version, which also might contain a new, next-level practice mode (if I can make it work). Stay tuned
-jb
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Hi jayb,
It seems I’m stuck on version 2.1,i keep checking the Play Store but no updates are available.
I see you are preparing a new version, and there were issues with 2.40/2.45, so did you pull them?
TANX
CriticalMass -
Hi, no you should get 2.45 from the play store. That is the current version. 2.50 is due out this weekend. Perhaps try an uninstall to see if you then get 2.45?
2.45 works fine on all screen types, it’s just the hard practice mode which is down
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@jayb Got it. Uninstall did it.
Thanks!
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@jayb a simply awesome and useful tool. Thank you very much!
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Thank you, that is nice to hear
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@zed8 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@jayb a simply awesome and useful tool. Thank you very much!
Seconded.
I do love software that aims to make me better but makes me look worse
Chapeau!!
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I have put out a new version 2.50 of the BullseyeHelper app.
Changes in 2.50
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The Hard practice mode is working again
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The countdown in the practice modes now has a slider so you can adjust how fast you want to be when doing the exercises. Note that while the exercise is running, you can not adjust the time. You can change it from 5-20 seconds using steps of 5 (so 5,10,15,20 seconds).
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There is a new practice mode, HSI Practice, see below
HSI practice
With this method, you learn how to use the HSI in the jet as a bullseye aid.
Say that we are given this picture: You: 90-50, Contact: 180-100
You start out by determining who is furthest away from bullseye, you or the contact. In this case that would be the contact at 100 nm.
A basic flowchart of how you then use this mode through 4 easy steps could be this:
Or in a single picture:
So what would that look like in the jet? Something like this:
By projecting the bearing line from you to the contact through the center, you get the required heading as approx 210. As for distance, remember that radius represents 100 nm. Since the projected line is a bit longer than one radius, he is probably 110-120 out.
One thing I particularly like about this training mode is that you use something which is already in the jet. No outside tools required (like this app or printed bullseye charts).
When testing it out in the jet I used the heading bug for the first marker (the one on the circumference which decides the radius). That made it a bit easier, since then there is only one marker that has to be imagined. And then the CRS arrow can help with the projected heading.
In the app, the practice mode is used like shown here. My estimates of where the markers should be are the yellow circles, placed by tapping the screen:
The HSI practice mode may seem complicated at first. But once it “clicks”, it is no more complicated than the two other modes. It could be interesting to hear if anyone can consistently beat 10 seconds in 5 out of 5 tries, assessment of heading and distance included.
The numbers used above are nice round numbers for illustration. In reality you will get bullseye calls that are much closer. So use the timing slider to become good and quick
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<p>Hi @jayb <br />I’m still intrigued with how you get this to connect to BMS? Does it only work in MP?</p>
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<p>@CriticalMass <br /><br />I have only used in it SP myself, but that should not matter. Have you launched the server app on the PC running BMS? <br /></p>
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<p>@jayb Oh boy, I totally missed the link to that!! Sorry, for my ineptitude.<br /><br /></p>
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<p>@CriticalMass No problem!</p>
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<blockquote>@CriticalMass <br /><br />I have only used in it SP myself, but that should not matter. Have you launched the server app on the PC running BMS? <br /><br /></blockquote><p>Hi I tried this last sunday night, downloaded server app and clicked
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but im not sure anything was, does it run a program and give you a desktop icon?<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />John.</p> -
<p>@arabianjules <br /><br />There is no install, you just place the file somewhere you prefer. To run it, locate it in the folder and doubleclick it or select it and press enter. First time you run it, it will probably ask to be whitelisted from the firewall.<br /><br />You should see this:<br /><br /><img class=“ql-image” src=“https://i.imgur.com/Xx9OYaS.png” /><br /><br />Then once you are in the cockpit in BMS, you press the BMS button on the app and it should connect to BMS via the server program and show you your posit<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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I executed BMSBullsEyeServer.exe but got error message
Where did you go wrong? windows7 system -
After trying to fix the error message, it can be executed normally now, but what is the connection between the mobile phone and the computer? Is it correct to use the USB cable of the mobile phone? And start the game to enter the 3D cockpit, open the APP and click the BMS button of the APP to get the local bullseye position?