Same here with the twist that our "household" is basically my wife and I, but the flics are in our 2 cars and are used to call a phone number via our phone to open the gate. Two problems we have are: 1 sometimes we switch cars, 2 flic doesn't work with Meizu phone
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RE: Multiple Users in Household
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RE: Android 7, All Flics Locked
@Emil https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/02/cheap-bluetooth-buttons-and-linux/, probably they're not BLE, whatever that means, but they work.
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RE: Android 7, All Flics Locked
@defilade1310 I have similar "saga" experience The current status is that it's "solved" by the fact that Flic doesn't work on my wife's phone, so I don't "need" the Flics to work on multiple devices and they work fine with mine, however I feel pretty bad with my purchase. I spent $110 on 4 Flics, and they have more problems than times when they work. Previously I bought 3 cheep Bluetooth buttons for less then $2 each, and I have to tell they work without problem (the reason I bought the Flics is that they have the android sdk)
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RE: Android 7, All Flics Locked
Strange, but try to unlock them as it suggests: hold the flic for more than 7 seconds, then retry (Or "download" is how it's called now)
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Settings doesn't save the changes
I set up my flic android app (1.7.5) and hit the back arrow in the top of the screen. Then I enter the settings again, and some of my settings are changed. I set them up again, then leave the settings, and get back again. Some of the settings are changed again. Some of them have ridiculous values (like the Country: Saudi Arabia, I've never been there in my life)
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RE: TWO DEVICES
@Emil unfortunatelly not much better. I tried now with Nexus 5x, and to tell you the truth, things are getting even worse:
- Yesterday I set up my old phone: Nexus 5 and my Flic account and my 4 Flics. I set the turquoise to call the gate's number on click and call my wife on double-click.
- Today I connected the the turquoise Flic to my wife's Meizu phone (it worked after a few restarts of the app and clear data). Note: She uses a different Flic account! I set up that Click calls a phone number (with Hebrew characters in the contact's name in her phone's contact list), Double Click calls ME!
- Just now I logged in to MY Flic account (the one I used previously in my old Nexus 5) from my new phone (Nexus 5X). I do see my 4 Flics, and there's an icon on each of them teling me that they're locked (makes sense, 3 of them are locked to my old phone, and the turquoise is locked to both to my old phone and my wife's phone) I pressed the flic for 7 seconds and clicked DOWNLOAD (doesn't make sense, the Try again I had in the other phone was more logical to me) BUT when I enter the configuration of the turquoise Flic I was shocked! I saw that Double Click's action is to call ME! This is an enormous BUG, as in all places it was stated that the actions are saved in the phone/account and not "in the flic". How come that when I logged in with my flic account I get the settings of my wife's flic account/phone???? I also saw that the Click action has ???????????? in the name instead of the Hebrew characters....
Look, I am a programmer myself, and I like to help, but I don't feel I am getting much for my money here. The reaction time is way to slow, and doesn't address the problems. The bugs I just posted now... they are so huge, I can't possibly imagine how can it be that you never tried the 1 flic 2 phones, 1 flic 2 accounts scenarios!!!! Or if you never tried them then at least don't write in the forum that it works!
I am seriously considering returning my 4 flics, I paid $110 for them and the time I am investing in debugging and waiting for days to get a response doesn't worth the money. For $25 I can get a Raspberry PI that works and knows a bit more than a flic....
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RE: TWO DEVICES
@Emil Nexus 5 and Meizu M3 Note. It looks that it works now. Is it possible that there's a long timeout? Something like the Flic has to turn itself off in order to forget? When I followed the steps (turn off bluetooth on phone #1) it doesn't (always) seem to work.
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RE: iOS App
@m.taylor sorry: after you choose action, then "Phone Control" and inside that list you'll see Phone Call. (I am in android, I hope that doesn't mean you won't see the same menu in iOS)
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RE: iOS App
@m.taylor in the flic app: click on the flic you want to set up, choose action (click|double click|hold), then choose "Phone Call", then set the number you want to call, then save
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RE: TWO DEVICES
@Emil the same, actually it's worse, because now when it says that my Flic is locket to another device, I press for 10 seconds, then Try again, then it "found" the flic but can't connect to it with ridiculous reason: too many flics in my account (0? all together I have 4 physical flics) and that it's too far away (10cm? It could find it but not to connect to it?) It looks like some BUG...