MG4Control V2.7.0

[SliDeeN]

Hello or good evening, everyone!
The next version of MG4Control is just around the corner, and it’s definitely one of the biggest updates I’ve had to work on so far, not necessarily in terms of the number of features, but in terms of the time spent on development and testing.
I’ll let you discover the new features for yourselves, and as usual, the list may change in the meantime as new bugs are reported or other minor improvements are made.
Thank you for your suggestions and support, and see you soon for version 2.7.0 of MG4Control!

✨ New features

🎨 New look

• Complete redesign: the main menu is a column on the side, sub-tabs are pills, text and buttons are larger, with new colours and a new blue icon.
• Menu side: Auto (follows the steering wheel), Left or Right — Settings › Interface.
• Long lists get a search field; every screen reopens the last sub-tab you used.

🤖 My automations (new, experimental)

• Build your own automations: When / And if / Then, with ready-made templates (heated wheel or seat off after a while [IMPROVEMENT] Auto turn-off timer for heated steering wheel and seats #173, brightness from the sun Brilho automático #198, ABRP by profile…). The existing automations stay as they are.
• Triggers: every vehicle sensor (switches on or off, goes above or below, changes, "For how long?"), time, every X minutes, sunrise / sunset, READY, P / D, charging, doors, phone, active profile, screen start-up…
• Conditions: time, days, season, places (GPS), variables, random…
• Actions: vehicle and climate settings, brightness, volume, media, windows, beep or your own sounds (USB drive), open or close an app, Android home / back / settings page, custom shortcut, variables, wait until, Yes/No question, navigation, run or stop another automation…
• History with the real result of each action, run and ignored counters, copy / cut / paste, master switch.
• Export / import (Downloads, USB drive or a folder of your choice) that keeps the links to places, profiles, sounds and shortcuts.
• Experimental: not every combination has been tried in the car yet — your feedback is welcome.

🎛️ Shortcuts

• Hardware buttons: one card per key with Short / Long / Double, per profile; keys can be renamed.
• Quick settings pop-up ([IMPROVEMENT] Quick access interface #197): up to 8 tiles of your choice (lane assist, cruise / limiter, regeneration, battery heating, drive mode, seats, A/C…). A two-value tile toggles in one tap, the others open their values in a bubble.
• Drive mode cycle ([IMPROVEMENT] add shortcut : Cycle drive mode (Sport, Normal, Eco...) #207): only the modes you choose, in your order, also while driving.
• New action: run one of your automations.

🔘 Floating buttons

• Information bubbles ([IMPROVEMENT] floatting shortcut to display informations #236): a bubble can show a value (battery, range, outside temperature, time, speed…).
• Look per bubble ([IMPROVEMENT] Option for translucent floating buttons #230, [IMPROVEMENT] Floating weather and clock display #222): colour, opacity, dark / tinted / light / black background, border, dimming when idle, automatic or fixed width; copy a look to the other bubbles.
• Bubbles can be placed anywhere in the top bar; a bubble is edited inside its own card ([BUG] Can't edit floating buttons in 2.7.0-beta.1 #213).

🖥️ Driver display V2 (#229)

• A gauge plus up to 4 information blocks: trip average, distance, energy, power in kW or hp, profile, drive mode, battery, range, temperature, time…
• Advanced customisation with a live preview: tap an element to adjust it, long-press it to move it.
• Offered wherever the SAIC cluster app is installed ([IMPROVEMENT] Add drivers widget for SWI173 + New identification method to display the option #231).

🛡️ Car keeper — surveillance (#180)

• With MG4-360-Camera-App, recording starts with surveillance and stops with it; a REC badge shows the recorded time.
• "Surveillance camera" card: detected app, automatic recording, USB drive test with free space and estimated recording time.
• The surveillance screen can follow the Normal / Dim / Off setting; Off is now fully black.
• Power drawn from the battery shown in watts ([IMPROVEMENT] Surveillance Mode Consumption Power #210).

📊 Statistics

• Trips per profile: a trip is split by the profile in use ("Mixed" when it changes), with a Profile filter.
• Graph of each trip: consumption, with speed and elevation bands.
• CSV export of trips and charges (Downloads, USB drive or a folder of your choice).
• Distance measured every second; lists shown 50 at a time.

🗺️ ABRP (#188, online version)

• Live data to A Better Route Planner: accounts typed in or imported from a USB drive, adjustable sending rate (down to 1 min when parked, [IMPROVEMENT] Update delay for ABRP #232), automation offered after adding an account.

📱 Android Auto / CarPlay (#251)

• New option (Settings › Advanced settings, off by default): a phone plugged in before the screen starts is announced to the car again at start-up and wake-up, so Android Auto or CarPlay starts without unplugging it.
• The Android Auto / CarPlay shortcut does the same when a phone is plugged in but no projection starts.

📺 Full-screen apps (#248)

• Choose apps (Waze, ABRP…) for which the car's top bar, side bar or both are hidden — Settings › Advanced settings, off by default.
• Swipe from the edge of the screen to bring the bar back for a few seconds. May conflict with custom launchers that also manage full screen. With MG4Dash, version 1.7.3 beta 24 or later is required.

🌡️ Climate

• Keep the A/C off ([Feature Request] Option to keep A/C state unchanged (OFF) when adjusting temperature #208, Settings › Advanced settings): the car turns it back on when the temperature changes; MG4Control switches it off again.

⚙️ Settings

• Distance unit: Auto, km or miles, everywhere (Statistics, driver display, bubbles, charging pop-up).
• Brightness down to 0 % on SWI133, SWI68 and SWI165 (the screen stays lit).
• Silent updates: the update installs by itself and the app restarts.
• Profiles: Duplicate, Rename and Delete from the ⋮ menu of each card.
• New languages: Polish and Norwegian (thanks to magneroald, [IMPROVEMENT] Norwegian translation #239).
• SWI173 supported natively ([IMPROVEMENT] Official support for the SWI173 firmware #175).

🔄 Changes

• One Pedal ([IMPROVEMENT] Return to before shortcut action #226): the second press brings back the previous regeneration level ("As before"); a fixed level can still be chosen.
• Car keeper pop-up: set up by touch only; surveillance needs a dashcam app, or your explicit agreement to run without video.
• "Speak a text aloud" is no longer offered (the car has no standard voice engine).
• The "Enable" switch is only on the Hardware buttons tab and only affects the steering-wheel keys.

🛠️ Fixes

• Lane assist sound on A9 firmwares: on and off were swapped ([BUG] SWI131 - Unable to disable Audible Beep with Lane Keep Assistance #216).
• Driver display: gauge hidden at start-up ([BUG] Drivers display jumps page #245), wrong module on the Music tab, Garage mode lost after a restart ([BUG] Garage Mode: driver's display gauge comes back after restart (2.7.0-beta.4) #246).
• Dashboard: coming back to it no longer rewrites the driving aids in the car.
• SWI133: the speed-limit tone no longer comes back on when a profile is applied; the ESC switch is no longer refused.
• One Pedal checked again after READY, e.g. after a remote pre-heat (OPD not enabling when pre-heating #219).
• Media pause when leaving ([BUG] Pause audio when leaving the vehicle not working with Android Auto media playing #235): more reliable, Android Auto / CarPlay included.
• Keyboard missing in some windows ([BUG] Hardware button rename - no keyboard #224).
• Car keeper screen: no more narrow "phone format".
• Garage mode also hides the driver display modules; Statistics and the Safety tab open faster.