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Eli Fitzgerald
Philip Lam: Hi Phillip how long should our battery life last for now in homecourt 3.4? I would love if you guys aimed to get 3-4 hours out of 100% battery that would be brilliant 🙏
Philip Lam
Eli Fitzgerald: It would depend on your phone model, of course the newer model and the newer the phone (battery) would be better.
We believe for an iPhone 8+ phone model with pretty healthy battery, it's about 0.5 - 0.7% per min if you keep the tracking, so it's still a little far from what you expect.. If you need to track 3-4 hours continuously, we know some users would connect the phone to a battery bag. Or iPad would probably allow 2+hours of tracking
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Eli Fitzgerald
Philip Lam: okay thanks Phillip
Philip Lam
hi everyone, we have done a couple things to reduce battery consumption in the new v2.16 release, including dimming screen after 6 mins of workout. Please update and try it out!
James Dunmore@ryan-tully Kevin Gong Peter flaherty @@honza-dvorsky Bill Kan Derek Tang Mike Harney Fallon Tang Darcy Dixon
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James Dunmore
I actually have started leaving HomeCourt on when we practice, scrimmage, or play games. So only 1 to 1.5 hours I would need it running. It is great to see how we shoot for a half if were sole looking at offense.
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Ryan Tully
If it could last for an hour that would be great
Philip Lam
We've actually experimented dimming the screen but it doesn't save a lot of power usage.
Let me ask a question first, how long do you guys wish to able to use it continuously (and of course with some battery left in the tank afterwards?)
This is a difficult problem but we will try hard to solve it!
Kevin Gong
Philip Lam: For me, probably an hour would be sufficient. I think my iPhone 6s barely lasts 30 minutes before it dies.
Peter flaherty
Philip Lam: 30 mins for me.
honza dvorsky
Philip Lam: an hour would be enough, that's as long as I've ever recorded.
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Bill Kan
Philip Lam: 30-60 mins workout is enough for me
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Derek Tang
Depends on user habit. Turn on battery save mode can stand for around 1 hour. Using iPhone 6S which battery performance is already not very good. But do agree audio feedback is important.
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Mike Harney
I ALWAYS connect an external battery. I prefer that to losing features. But, yes, it's a battery drain. Worth the extra battery though.
Fallon Tang
Maybe set up a option to turn off the screen while keep recording?
Philip Lam
Thanks for your feedback Fallon. We had done some investigation on this.
Say if we have an option to turn off a few things during recording like Shot Science computation, screen, etc, would you use that to get more battery life?
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Philip Lam: I really don't need the screen to be on, as long as I get some confirmation that it's started recording (one time I walked away without getting all the way through setup and missed recording some great shots). If tapping on the screen turns it back on, that's good enough.
Shot science is pretty important to me, so I'd probably keep that on.
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Darcy Dixon
Philip Lam: having the capability to turn the screen off would be great, but I’d rather connect to a battery pack than lost features from the app.
Kevin Gong
Philip Lam: The only thing I really care about is the audio feedback. The screen can be off, and features like shot science can be done after the workout is over.
Peter flaherty
Philip Lam: turning off the screen would be great.