Currently, when sharing a sensor, we tell user on Ruuvi Station:
“Note that the sensor’s custom name and background image will be shared. The name and image sync is one time only, and after this, they can be privately customised by the receiver. Offset values (if any) set by the owner, will be automatically synced, and the receiver will always see the final corrected values.”
We’ve received some but not many suggestions to simplify this so that modifications that owner makes on his/her sensors would be automatically synced on sharees’ sensors.
I personally think that syncing all the changes (also name and bg image, not just offsets) would make sense. As long as we clearly tell the users that this is going to happen.
If we would change the behaviour now, when several users already have shared their sensors and while several sharees have most probably modified names and bg images of the sensors that got shared with them, we’d need to be careful when making changes. We could, for example, send email notifications to everyone who have shared or received shared sensors, about an upcoming change.
What are your opinions on this? Simplify or don’t simplify?
I think having the sensor name and image stay in sync would benefit more users than the ability to customize it. For example when sharing tags at your home with your family it’s more convenient when moving tags around when only the “owner” needs to update the name, instead of every family member having to rename the tag individually after it has been moved to a new place
Having the ability to optionally “override” the name and image set by the “owner” could be a useful feature to have as well, as long as the default is to keep the name and image in sync. However with such feature, care should be taken how the feature is described, since some users could incorrectly think that they could change the “original name” of the tag, while in reality only the “owner” can do that
This particular issue has just become a pretty big issue for me. I have fitted an entire building with several companies inside with sensors. One of the companies would like to have all its sensors renamed. As it stands now, I would have to unshare all those sensors and reshare them again after renaming, just to make sure that everyone sees the same sensor names.
Also; I will likely be moved to a business subscription soon. Pushing changes to all users will then be a hard requirement.
Please advise if you have a solution available right now for me
for Scrin’s suggestion of having default behavior of using owner profile with a possibility of personal override for e.g. alarms description etc.