Third Party User Counts

[steve.palmieri]

I am curious
Does any other third-party developers (hobbyists) have a mechanism to track the number of installations and activity for the applications, consoles, etc. that were developed, and are willing to share those metrics.

I think every Developer would like to know users and activity on their creation

I have my application’s numbers, but no way to understand if that is significant or not !?

I developed the “ROKU Weather Station Data” viewer;

I have been working on a game-changing feature for the ROKU application and wanted a baseline installation and activity metric before the release so started down this analysis path.

Drum-roll please; here’s where we are.

• The number of ROKU devices with the application installed is >10K.
• YTD data shows an average of 235 visits per day.

Total Installs

Daily Visits

I think it would be interesting to know the saturation of all the third-party developer stuff !!

Steve

[vinceskahan]

I know of no way to track downloads from Github so you might be getting lucky if Roku has a way for you to know that kind of good stuff…

[steve.palmieri]

@vinceskahan
@vreihen

Thank you to VREIHEN for developing the UDP Listener.
I think I got that wrong, sorry.

Luckily, being on ROKU I am “data rich” as it’s a professional streaming platform. Those 2 simple charts I shared are very distilled from detailed data.

Next release hopefully before year’s end,
Steve

[vinceskahan]

I found a couple ways to track pip downloads and my wfudptools looks like it’s maybe 5-10/day with github about 5/day but who knows how many of those are bots and mirroring etc.

[vreihen]

I wrote the WeeWX UDP station driver, not the UDP listener.

The WeeWX web site has a station map that you can search by hardware type, for those who chose to share their station location (which ironically I don’t):

https://www.weewx.com/stations.html

Per the hardware table, it appears that my driver is the 6th most common on the map!

Here’s a screen shot of all WeatherFlow UDP station driver users sharing their info with WeeWX:

[steve.palmieri]

I would always like to collect some data to know installs, usage, crashes, etc…

It would be cool (will never happen) for all the developers to maintain a heat-map of installs, usage, feature-focus, etc…

[peter]

I develop the PiConsole and the answer is… I have no idea . I’ve toyed in the past with adding some sort of tracking, but always been conscious of dealing with the associated privacy issues. Without any figures, I just hope it’s useful to some people!

[steve.palmieri]

Yep, yep, and yep . . .

There is NOTHING in my application that captures anything user related.

I’m getting the data for my charts from the ROKU Developer Portal, as any other “streamer” would get.

My application is REQUIRED to pass testing by ROKU that it is not a security risk before they even allow me to stage it for publishing.

I do think it would be a cool visual to see who-is-using-what .

mmm . . . thoughts

[vinceskahan]

You can do a little tracking of the last 30 days on github if you go to the Insights pseudo-tab and then the Traffic pick but I can’t find more ancient info. I can see the info for ‘my’ repos but nothing for yours. Might be owner-only information (possibly) but you might want to look into that.

[mabeatty1978]

I can see my house from there!

[vreihen]

I was shocked to see three stations using my driver on the beach in the big-bucks part of the UAE…

[steve.palmieri]

Seeee… It’s interesting to know

[steve.palmieri]

Hey all, random redirection.
I’m certain inappropriate and off-topic . . . .

COOL WEATHER PATTERN I photographed last month.

Interesting Weather - General - The Tempest Weather Community

[vinceskahan]

Register those weewx stations everybody !!!

[vreihen]

At one point in the distant past, WU had the ability to search/sort PWSs by software/hardware. Haven’t looked at that site recently, though…