V1 Companion

V1 Companion

By Angela Mcarthur

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2020-09-18
  • Current Version: 3.14.11
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 7.37 MB
  • Developer: Angela Mcarthur
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Score: 4.67105
4.67105
From 152 Ratings

Description

**NEW** GPS location based 'false muting' via SpotLocks™ V1 Companion™ is a feature rich app, designed to give you the most out of your V1 radar detector, while enhancing your driving experience along the way. Featuring intelligent alerts and advanced muting, it takes situational awareness to another level! V1 Companion™ is the COMPLETE solution to enjoying your V1. V1 Companion™'s alerting and muting systems are optimized for each V1 platform. Intelligent voice announcements and on-screen visuals will always keep you informed and aware of the situation around you. V1 Companion™ full feature list: • SpotLocks™ - Location based false silencing has never been this good or easy. Turn on the intelligent location based learning, and let V1 Companion™ do the rest. Or, you can manually 'lock' or 'unlock' locations with ease from the main alert screen. • View and modify your V1's internal hardware settings. You no longer have to exit the app, and run the V1 connection app, to modify your V1's internal settings. • The ONLY iOS app with "Dynamic Volume Control" for V1 Gen2, completely silences unwanted alerts (No more annoying initial audio blip accompanying false alerts). • Play detector tones through app. • 'GPS Warmup' keeps the detector quiet for a 'user set' number of seconds or until a GPS connection is established with your iPhone. Useful for parking garages etc. • 'Proximity' meter. • V1 Firmware version check & notification of new firmware. • 'K & X falses in area' meter. • 'Custom Phrases' for threat's audio announcements. • High resolution meters for front & rear signal strengths of the priority alert (Not limited to the # of bars on the V1 display). • Customizable heads up display (HUD). • HUD displays the priority alert's band, signal strength, frequency, & direction. • HUD of the secondary alerts' bands, signal strengths, frequencies, bogey counts & directions. • Band priority mode. • Mute rear K & X band signals. • Advanced BSM/CAS/Ka False Muting (Optimized for each V1 platform). • 'Ghost' muting quiets false alerts when you are traveling behind a false emitting vehicle. • "Passive Mute™"- Quiets the V1 below user set speeds & during weak K & X signals. • Total bogey count display (Above the V1’s limit of 9). • Vehicle speed (MPH or KMH) display. • Mute status with the ability to manually mute/unmute alerts. • Detailed & intelligent voice announcements of direction, band, frequency, strength, number of alerts, occurrences of mixed signals & more. • V1 mode display (All, logic, Adv. logic - Tap to Toggle). • Automatic muting of Ka, K, and X bands ('Time before mute' set for each band). • 'Reduce Speed' notification for user set speed. • ‘Visual Awareness™’ – Slowly flashes the V1 display when the "Passive Mute™" system is actively muting. • Priority ‘Visual Awareness™’ - Rapidly flashes the V1 display after a Ka signal has been muted. • ‘Urgency Alerts™’ - Unmutes growing threats & announces these alerts via voice & notifications. • ‘Alert History’ - View your past alerts with detailed information about each encounter. • ‘Dark Mode’ support for use with V1 concealed display and/or iPhone as main display. • Compass heading. • Muting of Ka false signals from older, cheaper detectors. • ‘J-Out’ alert for Ka false alerts. • Imperial/metric. • Detailed trip summary at the end of your ride including duration, distance, alerts, muting stats, battery, & more. • Automatic connection to Bluetooth enabled V1's (V1 with Bluetooth LE Dongle & V1G2 supported). • iPhone & Apple Watch notifications of direction, band, & frequency of each alert. • Tips/Help system. This app requires a Valentine One V1G2 or V1 Radar Detector that is compatible with Valentine Research's Bluetooth LE Dongle. You should have Valentine Research's V1Connection App (freely available in the App store) operational beforehand, to ensure compatibility with the V1 Companion App. Some portions of this program are Copyright (c) 2020 Valentine Research, Inc.

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Reviews

  • Constant disconnect

    5
    By allstate1905
    The app tend to disconnect from V1 for t unknown reason. We need a fix
  • V1 companion

    5
    By redjacket3
    Excellent App, Thank you developer, Makes using the V1 gen 2 a breeze and adds so Much extra functionality to the V1
  • Works to make a quiet ride

    5
    By Sad you broke it
    A really sensitive detector can be so annoying it’s useless. I get very few false hits and yet it warns me when there really is a problem. Not “perfect” but very useful. It’s the best by far and keeps getting better!
  • Nice App

    4
    By oktgui
    Works nice! My hope is that it will eventually include crowd sourced alerts, speed cameras, and aircraft.
  • Superb

    5
    By DVMinMaine
    This is overall one of the best apps I have on my phone. It works flawlessly, works as advertised, and makes (IMO) the best radar detector on the market even better. The screens and graphics could use a little cleaning up to make them more legible and less cluttered, and an explanation of some of the symbols that appear on the screen would be ideal, but this is a small price to pay for the functionality offered in this package. Absolutely, totally, and inarguably, worth every penny of the asking price.
  • Falling in love with my V1Gen2 all over again

    5
    By TechieBrad
    This really quiets your ride. All the reasons why I wanted to get the R8 are now addressed with this app. Overall I think the V1Gen2 is better than anything out there, but its lack of GPS is extremely frustrating. I could write so much more about this app, but this app really is everything the V1Gen2 should be out of the box.
  • One last thing and it’s perfect…

    5
    By R6780233565
    If it could be used in landscape mode it would be perfect for me... I do use it more than any of the other apps out there. But really want landscape support since my pro max phone gets in the way of other things to see on dash while in portrait orientation. That’s it. Nothing else to dislike it is by far the most quiet v1 ride to work and around town. Great work on last version update. It’s a KA warning system and has since eliminated 99.9 of all other false. bSM and ghost is excellent. And spot locks never let me down. App support site down.. still hoping you are working on landscape option. Thanks!
  • UI Disaster

    2
    By mschultz
    I reeeally want to like this app, but the user interface is a poorly designed visual disaster, lacking any basic organization, information hierarchy, and professional design. The developer has clearly forgotten that you will be DRIVING when using this app. Instead, it seems like the intent is to impress us with how many alert and pieces of information can be thrown on the screen all at once, sometimes using plain English sentences, with bright contrasting colors. The initial splash screen – using what looks like comic sans – is your first clue that this will not be a good user experience. You’re then BOMBARDED by an unavoidable, overwhelming and infuriating wave of prompts that you CAN NOT STOP. Once you finally get past that, you’re presenting with a poorly designed UI/UX that any first year design student could dramatically improve in five minutes of casual work while drinking a cup of coffee. This app’s functionality might be amazing, but its UI and UX are just too sophomoric to even try. What a shame.
  • No Landscape Mode, worthless

    1
    By someon166t5y
    No landscape mode available
  • Amazing so far

    5
    By Obp59
    Ditto to all the other raving reviews, the only thing its missing is its not compatible with apple car play. That would take this app to the next level

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