On mobile devices, please show more characters of Zone names

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GMan

July 04, 2017 02:27

I have roughly 40 zones on 3 machines.  I need specific zone names, like "Driveway, South, Upper". Portrait view on an iphone or ipad has always chopped off the zone names, which is lousy because I only see "Driveway, Sout" which could be one of two or three zones that start with those characters.  I used to be able to turn my device horizontally and see the full length of my zone names.  But, recently, you changed that landscape view to show tiles and again you chop the zone names really short (e.g. 14 characters).  This is terrible.  You let me enter longer zone names but you won't ever let me see the full version of what I typed on any mobile device, in either portrait or landscape view.  Please add back the characters into at least landscape view, and hopefully even portrait view, so I can see my zone names and know which one I am manually turning on/off when walking around outside.

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  GMan July 05, 2017 17:42

  Regardless of vote count, this should be a huge priority because currently we cannot read our zone names!  Please implement.  Even the previous version let us see.  And on the controller screen itself, we also can't read our full zone names.  This is really bad.

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  GMan May 08, 2019 18:30

  Still hoping for resolution on this one!   I can't ever read my zone names, even when I turn to landscape mode.  You have room but don't use it.  PLEASE add more characters.

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  RainMachine Support May 09, 2019 07:44

  Hi, GMan
  We do understand your frustration and we're sorry for that.
  Currently, on our mobile apps UI version, we settle on a font size that it is easily readable on any resolution size and on a number of characters (without counting the zone number). Lowering the font size for one zone name to allow more characters it doesn't look good either.
  
  We will not tell/force you how to name your zones, but we do recommend using abbreviations, like:
  03. DW: South, Upper 
  04. DW: East, Back
  It is your yard in the end, you'll know what "DW" stands for.
  This is just a recommendation.
  
  We will try to tune this much better in our next UI updates.
  Thank you for your input and understanding, GMan.
  RainMachine Support

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