R8 Companion

Works with CarPlay!! "Feels like a new detector!", -e This is what people are saying after using the Radar Companion™ apps - See what all the fuss is about, try it for yourself! Version 1.40: • Hi-res signal strength meters for both front & rear horns added to the alert banner. See what your detector is seeing, not just the standard bar strength. Front strength shown as a thin line at the top of the banner, rear strength shown at the bottom of the banner. Turn it on by using the option found in both the CarPlay & iPhone menus. • "Active" Banner - K&X noise meter added to top of banner. Enable in the "Map screen" menu under the 'Active Banner' section. • "Active" Banner - MyRadarIQ threat level meter added to bottom of banner. Enable in the "Map screen" menu under the 'Active Banner' section. • Text notification customization. Enable / Disable types of phone & watch text notifications. Found in the R8 Companion's "iPhone" settings menu. • Battery optimizations. Other recent big updates: • SpotLock engine version 2.0.09012026 - latest historical data. • Advanced false assist engine version 3.0.09012026 - latest 6+ years of historical data. • New audio engine handles navigation, speech & detector tones seamlessly with options for output style, voice, speech rate, etc. • Option to include all Detector audio for nav mute tap (kill switch). • CarPlay background-alert controls. • Live Activities for CarPlay, iPhone, Apple Watch. • Alert banner "SignalScope" Shows signal strength over time of the current priority alert. • Alert screen (portrait & landscape views). Option to view classic or new alert screen with a tap of a button. • Ability to turn on/off posted speed limit (US, CA, AU, NZ). • New alert screen banners showing detailed alert, false assist, POI, MyRadarIQ, over speed warnings & other detailed detector status information. • Alternate Route selection with highway, & toll avoidance. • Shows arrival time, distance & trip time remaining. • 'Show traffic' option while navigating. • “Free Drive” (map / no map) alert screen. • MyRadarIQ™ - Threat assessment intelligent system for the radar companion series of apps. A new meter, visible at the top of the main alert screen, will show a graphical representation of the probability of a police presence (Ka or Laser) in the direction of your travel. Using your personal alert data, whenever a high probability exists for an encounter ahead, you will know about it well in advance of facing the actual threat. The meter will go from yellow (low threat), to orange (medium threat), to red (high threat) and flash aa a voice announcement occurs. The meter will also flash red when a Ka or Laser alert is actively being received to help draw attention to the alert. Probabilities are calculated down to the day of the week you are traveling, increasing the accuracy on any given day. If you liked R8 Companion before this release, you are going to LOVE it after! Modify the most popular settings on your R8 radar detector right from the app! See the list below for a complete list of the settings you can modify (more settings coming in future updates). Spread the word, it is only going to get better. If you have an idea / suggestion you would like included in a future update, please visit https://crackedpixel.com/contact-us to let us know. Thanks! Noteworthy info: • Supports both R8 & R8w detectors. • Firmware update notifications via main alert screen. • Option to have the radar detector's alert tones play through the app. • Accessibility option to flash the screen on alert. ***TIP: Setting the main volume for the detector to 0 on the main alert screen and enabling the detector alert tones, will eliminate the brief audio "blips" you would normally hear when a mute command is first sent to the detector. Only potential threats will then trigger audio through your speaker or audio system providing an extremely quiet ride.