V1connection the app Reviews

It is pretty pathetic when V1/2 can’t write an app that is reliable, does not burn your phone or battery.
Many 3rd party apps for the detector are magnitudes better.
The truth is that Valentine has been sleeping in their laurels for decades now.
This is the last time I spend time and money with their products.

I turned off the K and X band in V1connectiontheapp . Sent to my unit. Didn’t actually do it.

It’s an app without purpose… you have a V1, so why do you need to see it on your phone? It works horribly when using CarPlay. If there’s a radar signal it routes the audio back to your phone! But the V1 is already making noise. It’s just pointless. If it had any gps based tracking of common threats or nuisance alarms… or anything useful beyond updating the V1 firmware/software… maybe it would be worth using.

V1connectiontheapp initially seemed great. I have my V1 installed on my Honda VFR800, and have a SENA SMH10 headset in my helmet. I of course can’t hear the V1’s little speaker, so I bought the V1 Connection LE. V1connectiontheapp paired up with the little Bluetooth dongle and seemed to display properly, and played over my SENA. So I put my iPhone in my pocket and went for a ride. Not a murmur from V1connectiontheapp . So I checked my phone and when I unlocked it, V1connectiontheapp went through reconnecting to the dongle. So I tested some more and realized that V1connectiontheapp DOESN’T RUN IN THE BACKGROUND!!!

What sort of nonsense is this? As soon as your iPhone locks or you even switch to another app, V1connectiontheapp shuts down, effectively making it completely worthless for monitoring.

I’m now going to try out the V1 Driver app instead. It’s not free, but at this point, if I don’t find something that works, my $60 V1 Connection dongle is worthless.

Tech Display should have been a Bluetooth connectivity based device with USBC power. Nobody wants cables running around everywhere and certainly NOT to a cigarette adapter to get the ACC power and communication necessary for this to work! The two other community developed remote displays for the G2 are Bluetooth connectivity driven. This is useless in my opinion for users who want a cleaner connectivity option. It’s 2025, NOT 1994!!!!!!!!!!!

Audio alert over BT is unreliable at best due to V1connectiontheapp having to run at the same time. Volume is not loud enough to matter either, when it does work. Customer service at Valentine doesn’t seem to care and think they walk on air. The detector falses way more than a Redline 360c or a Uniden R3. I don’t get the cult following of Valentine at all.

Just want to echo EXACTLY what "liberty for all" just wrote in their review. It's like he read my mind. I have 2 valentines and was about to consider the Bluetooth module to use V1connectiontheapp and saw I had to send each of my units in for a $200 upgrade plus the cost of the Bluetooth module? I'm already using my ODBI module for a scan gauge so I don't want to loose that just to be able to mute my device but again these are all features I'd like to have but without the bulkiness of these add-ons. Id rather buy another $400 unit with everything built in. Great ideas...love the product...integrate with waze and make free user firmware updates and keep it coming!

V1connectiontheapp has so much potential but is pretty much useless without the ability mirror the screen unto your car’s screen.
There is no necessity to have have your phone in a holder, clustering up your dash and distracting from the task of driving.
It really can’t be that hard to make it CarPlay compatible and have alerts show up on screen.

V1connectiontheapp has to be in the foreground of all apps -> and the phone must be unlocked <- for it to send audio to the phone.

OK fine. Set things up with it in the foreground and the phone unlocked. If something else happens on the phone that steals the foreground, V1connectiontheapp goes silent without warning and never comes back.

It’s probably fine for seeing a bunch of visual detail about nearby signals, but it’s both useless and misleading in terms of audio.

Come on Valentine, the one guy who develops V1Driver got this right. Can’t you?

It gets the job done but very basic functions. You should be able to customize the audio messages rather than a bunch of beeps. And when it loses the connection to the V1, there should be an audible message given. Instead you just see it in demo mode. Shouldn’t be hard to add these features and conveniences.

Update: Search for the “StealthAssist” app in V1connectiontheapp Store for a powerful app that picks up where V1connectiontheapp left off! Many features like auto mute using GPS, custom display colors, and more.

The V1connection app is great to have on iOS. It is quite handy for updating the configuration of your V1 and exposing some advanced settings.

However, it leaves a lot to be desired from a daily driving experience perspective. Clunky legal warning, outdated UI, hard to use/read while driving, doesn’t leverage device GPS, etc.

The display is easy to use and see. However, some of the controls are hard to use while driving... the mute button is small, why not allow me to just tap the arrow to mute (or anywhere in the arrow screen). I had a 3rd party app that I purchased that did this, but it stop supporting the newer iOS.

Nothing else to say here. The additional purchase of the BT module should allow Airplay display. Please and thank you, V1.

V1connectiontheapp works well but one feature add to make this a solid 5 star review would be for V1connectiontheapp to support CarPlay so that the display would be presented on the in car entertainment screen.

I got my Bluetooth LE and V1connectiontheapp for my V1 and once I connected, I felt empowered. However it was short lived. I've had my V1 since 2009 and it's so embedded in my brain that it's become part of my driving experience. V1connectiontheapp sheds light on the data inside the V1 like frequencies and bands displayed vividly on your phone. It is useful, but not a huge advantage to users. Where is CarPlay integration? That would be utilizing the software! I love my V1 and I can't trust another detector to chance. However V1 has been dormant on the business and innovation side of the industry and that disappoints. We all long for more, but know that we can count on our device. I wish MikeV. would step it up - it's time to show us why we all stay loyal. #bogeys

Thanks for continued improvements to software capabilities. Latest September update is a massive step forward. Except Resting display (for me).

Can you consider changing resting display to a non blinking dot? Or just the Bluetooth icon solidly illuminated? The blinking is a bit distracting, even just knowing something is blinking if it’s not visible at the moment. Passengers don’t prefer a constant blink either.

Anyway, for now I’ll turn it off but love the concept of resting display off until an alert. Thanks for the amazing updates especially the BSM portion. At times when I’m not running a 3rd party app, it’s great to help keep the detector quiet.

Thanks.

V1connectiontheapp is fine and allows the user to not have to interact with the actual V1 device, but obviously Car Play compatibility would be ideal. I don’t believe that is a possibility as of now with Apple’s strict requirements, but hopefully soon. That being said, I would appreciate a setting in V1connectiontheapp that allows the user to mute the V1 device by tapping on main part of the screen (rather than the speaker icon). It is way too distracting to keep clicking on such a small area of the screen. Quickly tapping a large portion of the phone screen would be more logical to me.

I’ll let others leave detailed reviews but I a feature I would love to see for V1connectiontheapp is integration with Apple Car Play. It would be awesome to have the V1 display on my car’s entertainment head unit.

I didn't buy V1 for V1connectiontheapp , but V1connectiontheapp works and does everything V1 says it does.

* Many of these reviews are 5+ years old even 10 years in some cases.

Does anyone know what Background Mode Setting is ?

What is ITB?

Thanks