Operation

The operation of the app should be very intuitive.

If everything is working, and the PAMGuard forms are running and connected to the MQTT server the screen should look something like the image above. There are two buttons, one for sightings, one for resightings (tt's not possible to change the names of these). If you've selected to capture camera images, a preview of the camera images will be shown in the middle of the display between the two buttons. At the top of the display is the platform name and the settings button, at the bottom is the network status.

The sightings button should also be displaying the most recent sightings number and the status of voice recording on the PAMGuard computer.

When the sightings button is pressed, if everything is working, you should see the sightings number increase by 1 and the sightings button will turn red. If a voice recording starts in PAMGuard, the number of seconds remaining of recording time will be displayed.

If you are using the camera, a still image will be sent to PAMGuard once per second.

If there is a problem with the network connection, then the buttons will both turn grey.