Hi, thank you!
This behavior is not normal - the monitoring should work, even over several hours. One or two people had the same problem (at least on an older version) - I can't reproduce this until today.
Presumably, a new update will be released tomorrow, which allows sending the debug data from the car to me directly. So I can detect misbehavior and errors more better and maybe I can detect the cause for this behavior on some devices or dongles.
Regarding to the password box: I can totally understand you. It's annoying, I know, but it's only for security reasons. The app works with a token, once you've created a account. With this token you can verify and authenticate. If you would share your token with third parties, they can probabl or can modify settings for your account. This is the reason, I ask for a password every time. But this will be modified in the future, at least, when autoSync is turned on, because the sync can work only with the token. In a future update you will have the possibilty to also renew your personal token. So, I'm working on a solution, to make it more user-friendly.
The charging station feature is in a very early development state. It will be enhanced within the next few updates. You will then have the possibility to filter and extend the radius. There will be also some other useful features for charging stations.
Remote execution of a command would be possible - BUT that's very dangerous. First - the user itself - if you send a command and you dont know what you are doing, you can possibly damage the car - second - other people which get access (however) to your account, could send harmful commands remotely. OBD2 interface by itself is dangerous by itself, but to get access to it, you need to get in close range. And you need time. If you have a remote execution function, you would have enough time and you could try the harmful commands without the knowledge of the victim.
But maybe I'm looking at this to critically. What do other people think?
At the end an info: Since yesterday there is a new, huge update in preparation for the backend server (
https://github.com/GPlay97/EVNotifyBackend/pull/42). There will be some downtime, yesterday the downtime was for about 15 minutes.
A new update for the app itself is planned for tomorrow and will bring some nice changes hopefully
Stay tuned