DWARFLAB

The Dwarf II failed to be connected after upgraded firmware in STA mode

Before the update my Dwarf 2 worked well. After the update the Dwarf 2 would drop connection after 30 seconds, and refuse to reconnect. I tried all the troubleshooting steps to no avail.

The app is mediocre in every way, but usable. The camera is pretty neat, so one can put up with the app. I hope it gets improved, it wouldn't be hard.

I got the telescope expecting nice things, but I won’t hold the app accountable for my buyer’s remorse. But the app itself was one of the main selling points and this app, by itself, is cancer on my phone. I have to reboot the program after every session if the camera loses the connection. It’s frozen, no features are tappable. It’s also not uncommon for an entire reboot of iOS after a session. That’d be cool if the app was anything more than a glorified 720p selfie stick. It lacks an intuitive viewing mode. Focus never works, it seems unresponsive with no feedback. It may be skill or more reading up, but my iPhone takes better, more detailed pictures. Looking with the naked eye shouldn’t give the most detail while viewing. I don’t know how tied the app team is to their hardware, but it’s been my worst regrettable purchase and worst regrettable app that I’ve downloaded in several years.

Please change all the sliders into drop down. Fat fingers don’t work very well. Thanks.

A good start but software is unhelpful and weird to connect. Software needs to be as good as the hardware.

Raising my review from 1* to 3* for version V2.0.0.B18. The new App is a fresh take at what should have been from day one using my Dwarf2. It’s keen experience that it brings. Good stuff. On the other hand, am still finding that saving to photo album on iOS still remains a “hit&miss”. I tried to save an image/photo of the moon I had taken some time back which was on the SD Card to the photo album, and for some reason the save button won’t work. Tried to save an Astro photo from the SD Card, one of them saved immediately, and the other took forever until i killed the App. Integration with Photo Album is still finicky. After disconnecting, the Album page is empty. It would be good to have a “tag” used to filter and display what has been locally saved on the device showing there. This should not be hard to fix, or alternatively, provide a “save to” option which can save to iOS Files location, assuming the one step “save” is too challenging to implement moment.

Went to upgrade and the app won’t connect to telescope however it looks like I can view images on the as card? So not sure what’s going on? I’d stay way from this update till this is figured out.

That word “clunky” describes it best. It works, but then it doesn’t. It was definitely designed by engineers. Overly long and complex ways of doing things. They need to hire a person who natively speaks English. Let that person write the instructions in the app and online. The app is very cluttered and it’s easy to accidentally go from astrophotography to daytime photography and not even realize that you have hit the button. Seriously considering sending the unit back waiting a year then try again.

iOS app is far behind the android app. Hopefully there is a major update soon.This really limits the user experience with the telescope.