No good traction circle iPhone app?

byroncheung · 02-24-2019, 03:14 PM

Was trying to find an app I can use when driving to visualize traction circle, help improving smoothness in adding throttle while unwinding steering wheel, or in trail-braking etc, but not really seeing a lot of good one. For one I couldn't find one that actually display it as a dot inside a circle, most of them would show 2 axes showing lateral and longitudinal separately. And also most if them shows very jittery reading, if the phone is mounted by a mount, which I imagine can be improved easily by applying some smoothing to the readout...

Is there a good app around? Or I should just write one myself?

Scrippy · 02-24-2019, 04:29 PM

The mlaptimer has a G-force display. It lags maybe a second though but it literally has a red dot in a circle to display power, braking and cornering. If you have a GoPro in the car it will log it all as well as graph out braking and throttle with speed display as well as display your track route and give you lap times. It's not the best but it's free in the App Store.

byroncheung · 02-24-2019, 04:48 PM

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The mlaptimer has a G-force display. It lags maybe a second though but it literally has a red dot in a circle to display power, braking and cornering. If you have a GoPro in the car it will log it all as well as graph out braking and throttle with speed display as well as display your track route and give you lap times. It's not the best but it's free in the App Store.

The app works with car with ”bwm app”? Our cars has it? Also do you know where it get the g force information from? From the car or the phone?

Scrippy · 02-24-2019, 07:25 PM

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The mlaptimer has a G-force display. It lags maybe a second though but it literally has a red dot in a circle to display power, braking and cornering. If you have a GoPro in the car it will log it all as well as graph out braking and throttle with speed display as well as display your track route and give you lap times. It's not the best but it's free in the App Store.

The app works with car with ”bwm app”? Our cars has it? Also do you know where it get the g force information from? From the car or the phone?

Since it is part of connected drive it gets the information from the telemetry in the car(combox I believe)

byroncheung · 02-25-2019, 07:14 AM

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Since it is part of connected drive it gets the information from the telemetry in the car(combox I believe)

i don't think my car (2011 e90 zcp) has the "BMW Apps"? does it only work with later cars?

Scrippy · 02-25-2019, 10:05 AM

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Since it is part of connected drive it gets the information from the telemetry in the car(combox I believe)

i don't think my car (2011 e90 zcp) has the "BMW Apps"? does it only work with later cars?

Yes. My car is a 2011. Download the app in the App Store and install it on your phone. Start the app and plug your phone into the usb or put it in a snap in adapter and go to connected drive in idrive and you will see the mlaptimer app icon there. Select it and play around with it.

byroncheung · 02-25-2019, 11:06 AM

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Yes. My car is a 2011. Download the app in the App Store and install it on your phone. Start the app and plug your phone into the usb or put it in a snap in adapter and go to connected drive in idrive and you will see the mlaptimer app icon there. Select it and play around with it.

yea i downloaded it but couldn't get it to connect to the car. i don't think i have ever see "connected drive" selection in my idrive. it's there for all version of idrive? i'll try again tonight... i suspect my car don't have the "BMW Apps" option?

byroncheung · 02-25-2019, 01:12 PM

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yea i downloaded it but couldn't get it to connect to the car. i don't think i have ever see "connected drive" selection in my idrive. it's there for all version of idrive? i'll try again tonight... i suspect my car don't have the "BMW Apps" option?

i looked into it more so my car wasn't equipped with the 'bmw apps' option.
it's possible to retrofit it with the cost of $350-$400... but i'm not entirely sure if it is worth it

Scrippy · 02-25-2019, 04:33 PM

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yea i downloaded it but couldn't get it to connect to the car. i don't think i have ever see "connected drive" selection in my idrive. it's there for all version of idrive? i'll try again tonight... i suspect my car don't have the "BMW Apps" option?

i looked into it more so my car wasn't equipped with the 'bmw apps' option.
it's possible to retrofit it with the cost of $350-$400... but i'm not entirely sure if it is worth it

Look into GoPro. I'm pretty sure their cameras have all the same stuff we are talking about.

byroncheung · 03-02-2019, 04:50 PM

Actually I found an app on iPhone called g-bowl, a little expensive but quite well made, I'm really digging it.

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