Arlo|Smart Home Security|Wireless HD Security Cameras
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Battery level graphs over time

I would find it useful to be able to visually see my battery performance for all of my devices on a graph over time.

 

I seems clear, the app interrogates the battery status on all cameras any time the app is started.  In 2.5.5 this showed up in the clearly visible battery icons for each device.  In 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 the low battery icon flashes briefly (presumably while the system is interrogating the battery status) and then extinguishes (when working properly) if the battery level is not considered "low".

 

Since this information is being gathered by the app (and possibly more often than this), Arlo developers would just need to store the values along with their time and date stamps on the cloud servers for interrogation in the future by a display tool.

 

I think a good model for displaying this might be the Library timeline.  If the battery status icon was made functional, users could touch the battery icon and display a filtered graph of battery levels over time for the selected device.  If a user wanted to see all devices he or she could delete the filter like we do for the Library display currently and see all battery levels (coded by color and line style) on a single graph over time.  I suspect there are plenty of decent graphing tools available to utilize for this display.  The functionality might be able to leverage the entire filtering mechanism that is already inherent in the app for the Library.  We'd just need to choose whether to display library images or device status information on the current device selection.  There is likely other useful data that is already captured, but needs to be stored and displayed via some additional code.  However, battery is certainly at the top of my wish list and would be a good place to start.