yFi is a small utility app that lives in your status bar. It continuously monitors your WiFi TX Rate and reconnects if it's getting bad. This ensures you'll never have those awkward lags and dropouts in online meetings (as we now are working remotely...).
@_rose_m_ It reminds me of WifiSpy which added the current TX rate to the status bar and gave context to the state of the connection.
yFi now seems to offer a few additional config options. What TX limit would you recommend to set as a threshold?
As a small feature request: I would like to get rid of the logo in the status bar and instead only have the TX rate shown. ;)
@michael_frohlich Hey thanks for your feedback! I thought of recommending a default setting but it varies quite a lot. At home I have a 5Ghz network and set the limit to 100 - that seems to work really well. In some cases I had to go down to 50 for other networks. I couldn't test myself with slow networks easily but probably 50 is a good starting point. The higher you can set the limit the faster you'll be "back" as the update tick rate is around 2 seconds.
Ah, good point with the logo, never thought of that - I'll add this as an issue on the GitHub repo and take a look at it :)
@michael_frohlich I finally managed to do the update :) Version 1.1 should now be live on the App Store and you can select to only show the TX Rate! Have fun!
Hey everyone, this is my first small macOS app, starting from scratch and getting into Swift and all. The idea basically came as I was continuously annoyed by my connection suddenly getting bad and I only recognised it after couple of minutes in calls... I've now got it running for a month now all the time and it definitely saved me some meetings :D Especially since I can now pre-announce me dropping out for a couple of seconds and getting back in. The timeout typically fits perfectly so you still get everything from the conversation (e.g. in Zoom) and not missing anything. Have fun trying it out! :)
The idea seems great. Sadly it doesn't work on my Mac. I am using macOS 13.5 on a M2 MacBook Air 15". The apple is written in Intel 64 Base Architecture and need to be native to Apple Silicon. Suggest either Separate apps for each Intel and ARM or a Universal app. (I downloaded from Apple App Store)
Hey! Sorry for that I indeed did not publish a proper universal build for the app... until now :) There should be a new version on the App Store that is a universal build now.
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