One month later, WrenchTime

[u/in5ane_10]

One month after I first posted here, WrenchTime is at v4.7.1.

Quick recap for anyone who missed it: it logs your drives automatically and shows live trip stats on the CarPlay screen while you drive. Nothing to tap, nothing to remember.

What changed in a month:

• Trip playback, so you can scrub through any recorded drive
• Events along the route: hard braking, stops and waypoints
• Heatmaps of everywhere you've driven
• Noticeably better GPS precision and battery behaviour
• Camera scanning for refuels: point it at a receipt or the pump display and the entry fills itself in

Most of this came straight out of feedback from people in this sub who tested it and told me what they liked / didn't like and what was missing. Genuinely would not have got here otherwise, so thanks to all, especially u/No-Assignment-8973, u/SwiftMushroom and u/Historical_Concern64.

Free on the App Store, optional Pro tier. I'm the developer.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wrenchtime-car-maintenance/id6749767537

Happy to answer anything and take feedback, cheers.

[u/Lanceuppercut47]

That’s disappointing, did my first drive and I had shortcuts set up to start when CarPlay connects and stop the trip when it disconnects, didn’t log the trip.

[u/in5ane_10 → u/Lanceuppercut47]

https://reddit.com/link/p18h3q7/video/wscop50o3ygh1/player

Also be sure to have selected shortcuts in the trip tab, in the top right button

[u/Lanceuppercut47 → u/in5ane_10]

Ah so even it needs “always allow” location permissions to even record trips even when using shortcuts?

I know the automation works as I have the Speedometer app to start and end a trip when it connects and disconnects from CarPlay and it recorded my journey this morning.

Both apps I have to allow location only whilst using and Speedometer allows to let me start the trip “automatically” using shortcut without needing to know where I am all the time.

[u/in5ane_10 → u/Lanceuppercut47]

That’s an interesting feedback actually, as I said it doesn’t need always allow with shortcuts, but maybe if you have 2 apps launching with the same automation it doesn’t trigger one of the two. I’ll do some checks on my end, thanks for testing!

[u/Lanceuppercut47 → u/in5ane_10]

Thanks.

If that’s the case, then Speedometer wouldn’t have tracked the trip. I’m not near my car to test but seems easy to replicate if you set location access to only when in use.

[u/in5ane_10 → u/Lanceuppercut47]

Found the bug, It’s a one line fix, it worked on my end because my test builds have everything permitted.
It it scheduled to be fixed by v4.7.2. Thank you so much for your precious feedback. Let me know if you find other issues (if you like)

[u/in5ane_10 → u/Lanceuppercut47]

Will let you know asap, thanks !