Noise Monitor
Options
Unlimited Monitoring Duration Enable multi-colour audio analysis and display Restrict the audio frequency range to monitor Capture and email the monitor/replay screen image Export recordings to iCloud Drive and email download links Protected export and email of copies stored in iCloud Remote monitoring over iCloud Drive Use the App’s email server for emailed alerts Get alerts emailed to yourself for noise peaks Choose when noise alerts are raised Optional contact email address for support Get a free ten day trial of remote monitoring and emailed alerts Full Version Support with ExceptionsUnlimited Monitoring Duration
This option removes the hidden areas of the summary graph allowing you to see all of the current session when purchased from the monitoring/review screen. It applies to the session in progress (if any), all previously recorded sessions and all future sessions.Enable multi-colour audio analysis and display
With this option on the frequencies in any noise are analysed and colour coded into the graph. Similar noises will show the same colour patterns on each occurrence. Change the monitored frequency range to get additional detail on a particular noise. To see a graphical explanation of this colour coding go to the control screen in the app and touch the info button in the bottom right hand corner.Restrict the audio frequency range to monitor
Restricting the audio range allows you to better monitor the range you are interested in and to enhance the colour audio analysis over this range.Capture and email the monitor/replay screen image
Often when dealing with noise complaints a snapshot of the monitor screen will be adequate to send to the council customer service operator especially when there has been no significant noise all day. This can save sending a large recording which contains nothing of interest.Export recordings to iCloud Drive and email download links
This option allows the export of 48000Hz copies of monitoring session recordings to iCloud Drive and/or Documents. iCloud Drive is accessible to yourself on both the iOS device and your computer. Recordings stored in Documents can be accessed using iTunes file sharing. Both these areas are read and write enabled to yourself so the app treats them as unprotected. Once a recording has been copied to iCloud it has to be uploaded to the iCloud server before a link to it can be emailed using iOS Mail. Both the copy and the email are implemented on the review form where you select recordings. The copy is relatively quick but the upload to iCloud can take a while for long recordings. For further information touch here.Protected export and email of copies stored in iCloud
The app stores session recordings in a protected area inaccessible to yourself where they cannot be modified. The export of 48000Hz copies to iCloud is done to a protected inaccessible area. Once again it has to be uploaded to the iCloud server before a link to it can be emailed, this can take quite a while. In this case because we have a session recording which has always been stored in a protected area the email of the download links also has to be protected if we are to guarantee that it is a protected and unaltered 48000Hz copy of the original monitor recording. The email is sent using the app’s own email server which is enabled for this purpose. You are able to enter the recipients, CC copies and initial user text. The app adds the links and text guaranteeing that the links are to unaltered copies of the original recordings. For further information touch here.Remote monitoring over iCloud Drive
When this option is enabled the app stores snapshot copies of the monitoring screen in iCloud at the periodic intervals and whenever a noise peak is detected. A noise alert resets the timer for the next periodic update. The remote device sees a button at the middle bottom of the initial control screen. This button is green if a monitoring session is in progress otherwise it is brown if a completed monitoring session is stored in iCloud. This device will display the snapshots as they become available. Scrolling the snapshots is available. There is also a button on the top right of the control bar which shows a muted bell, touch this to enable noise audio alerts. For further information touch here.Use the App’s email server for emailed alerts
The option is there to use the app’s own email server or to use your own. Use of your own email server is freely available when you enable emailed alerts. The pricing and fact it is not included as part of the unlimited version are designed to encourage you to use your own server. If you choose to use the app’s email server then to stop abuse each target email address requires the entry of an emailed confirmation code to activate it. When using your own server emailed confirmation codes are not required.Get alerts emailed to yourself for noise peaks
When this option is enabled the app emails snapshot copies of the monitoring screen at the periodic intervals and whenever a noise peak is detected. A noise alert resets the timer for the next periodic email. Up to 10 email addresses can be entered. When using the app’s own email server a confirmation code is required and a button is provided to email the confirmation code to the entered address. For further information touch here.Choose when noise alerts are raised
• ‘Seconds to wait …’ - Normally there will be some noise after you start the monitoring session. You don’t want the app to recognise noise until after you have left so set this to a reasonable value for how long it takes you to go. • ‘Minimum seconds between alerts- You don’t want the app to keep issuing emails one after the other. You need a gap before you send another. • ‘The number of noise peaks before an alert is triggered’ - There are single short noise peaks with a single peak and in other cases multiple peaks occur one after the other without breaks. You can see these on the instantaneous graph where there are multiple peaks in a single noisy sequence. Some of these multiple peaks are counted towards this number so do not make this number too low or you could be triggering frequent alerts • ‘These noise peaks must occur within these seconds’ - this provides an interval in which the number of noise peaks above must occur. Adjust this and the number of noise peaks to get the alerts fired when you want.Optional contact email address for support
If the app crashes (disappears and you return to the home screen, this also happens after some fatal error messages) a crash report is automatically generated. This report respects your privacy and contains no user identifiable material. If you enter this email address then you give me some way of providing personal service and contacting you regarding any problems that have occurred.Get a free ten day trial of remote monitoring and emailed alerts
Just what it says. For ten days you can have a no obligation trial of remote monitoring and email alerts. To make it easy to setup the app’s own email server is included in the trial. if it is what you want then you can either buy the options you want or get the full version.Full Version Support with Exceptions
Enables all current and future in-app purchase options with the exception of use of the app’s own email server for email alerts.Restore Your Purchases.
Use this option if you have made in-app purchases and either reinstall the app on your device or install it on a second or subsequent device. The subsequent devices need to use the same iTunes login. Unfortunately it is not possible to share in-app purchases with family sharing. -
© 2023 John Hall
iOS Apps
for the iPad and iPhone by John Hall
Noise Monitor
Options
Unlimited Monitoring Duration Enable multi-colour audio analysis and display Restrict the audio frequency range to monitor Capture and email the monitor/replay screen image Export recordings to iCloud Drive and email download links Protected export and email of copies stored in iCloud Remote monitoring over iCloud Drive Use the App’s email server for emailed alerts Get alerts emailed to yourself for noise peaks Choose when noise alerts are raised Optional contact email address for support Get a free ten day trial of remote monitoring and emailed alerts Full Version Support with ExceptionsUnlimited Monitoring Duration
This option removes the hidden areas of the summary graph allowing you to see all of the current session when purchased from the monitoring/review screen. It applies to the session in progress (if any), all previously recorded sessions and all future sessions.Enable multi-colour audio
analysis and display
With this option on the frequencies in any noise are analysed and colour coded into the graph. Similar noises will show the same colour patterns on each occurrence. Change the monitored frequency range to get additional detail on a particular noise. To see a graphical explanation of this colour coding go to the control screen in the app and touch the info button in the bottom right hand corner.Restrict the audio frequency
range to monitor
Restricting the audio range allows you to better monitor the range you are interested in and to enhance the colour audio analysis over this range.Capture and email the
monitor/replay screen image
Often when dealing with noise complaints a snapshot of the monitor screen will be adequate to send to the council customer service operator especially when there has been no significant noise all day. This can save sending a large recording which contains nothing of interest.Export recordings to iCloud Drive
and email download links
This option allows the export of 48000Hz copies of monitoring session recordings to iCloud Drive and/or Documents. iCloud Drive is accessible to yourself on both the iOS device and your computer. Recordings stored in Documents can be accessed using iTunes file sharing. Both these areas are read and write enabled to yourself so the app treats them as unprotected. Once a recording has been copied to iCloud it has to be uploaded to the iCloud server before a link to it can be emailed using iOS Mail. Both the copy and the email are implemented on the review form where you select recordings. The copy is relatively quick but the upload to iCloud can take a while for long recordings. For further information touch here.Protected export and email of
copies stored in iCloud
The app stores session recordings in a protected area inaccessible to yourself where they cannot be modified. The export of 48000Hz copies to iCloud is done to a protected inaccessible area. Once again it has to be uploaded to the iCloud server before a link to it can be emailed, this can take quite a while. In this case because we have a session recording which has always been stored in a protected area the email of the download links also has to be protected if we are to guarantee that it is a protected and unaltered 48000Hz copy of the original monitor recording. The email is sent using the app’s own email server which is enabled for this purpose. You are able to enter the recipients, CC copies and initial user text. The app adds the links and text guaranteeing that the links are to unaltered copies of the original recordings. For further information touch here.Remote monitoring over iCloud
Drive
When this option is enabled the app stores snapshot copies of the monitoring screen in iCloud at the periodic intervals and whenever a noise peak is detected. A noise alert resets the timer for the next periodic update. The remote device sees a button at the middle bottom of the initial control screen. This button is green if a monitoring session is in progress otherwise it is brown if a completed monitoring session is stored in iCloud. This device will display the snapshots as they become available. Scrolling the snapshots is available. There is also a button on the top right of the control bar which shows a muted bell, touch this to enable noise audio alerts. For further information touch here.Use the App’s email server for
emailed alerts
The option is there to use the app’s own email server or to use your own. Use of your own email server is freely available when you enable emailed alerts. The pricing and fact it is not included as part of the unlimited version are designed to encourage you to use your own server. If you choose to use the app’s email server then to stop abuse each target email address requires the entry of an emailed confirmation code to activate it. When using your own server emailed confirmation codes are not required.Get alerts emailed to yourself for
noise peaks
When this option is enabled the app emails snapshot copies of the monitoring screen at the periodic intervals and whenever a noise peak is detected. A noise alert resets the timer for the next periodic email. Up to 10 email addresses can be entered. When using the app’s own email server a confirmation code is required and a button is provided to email the confirmation code to the entered address. For further information touch here.Choose when noise alerts are
raised
• ‘Seconds to wait …’ - Normally there will be some noise after you start the monitoring session. You don’t want the app to recognise noise until after you have left so set this to a reasonable value for how long it takes you to go. • ‘Minimum seconds between alerts- You don’t want the app to keep issuing emails one after the other. You need a gap before you send another. • ‘The number of noise peaks before an alert is triggered’ - There are single short noise peaks with a single peak and in other cases multiple peaks occur one after the other without breaks. You can see these on the instantaneous graph where there are multiple peaks in a single noisy sequence. Some of these multiple peaks are counted towards this number so do not make this number too low or you could be triggering frequent alerts • ‘These noise peaks must occur within these seconds’ - this provides an interval in which the number of noise peaks above must occur. Adjust this and the number of noise peaks to get the alerts fired when you want.Optional contact email address
for support
If the app crashes (disappears and you return to the home screen, this also happens after some fatal error messages) a crash report is automatically generated. This report respects your privacy and contains no user identifiable material. If you enter this email address then you give me some way of providing personal service and contacting you regarding any problems that have occurred.Get a free ten day trial of remote
monitoring and emailed alerts
Just what it says. For ten days you can have a no obligation trial of remote monitoring and email alerts. To make it easy to setup the app’s own email server is included in the trial. if it is what you want then you can either buy the options you want or get the full version.Full Version Support with
Exceptions
Enables all current and future in-app purchase options with the exception of use of the app’s own email server for email alerts.Restore Your Purchases.
Use this option if you have made in-app purchases and either reinstall the app on your device or install it on a second or subsequent device. The subsequent devices need to use the same iTunes login. Unfortunately it is not possible to share in-app purchases with family sharing. -
© 2023 John Hall
iOS Apps
For the iPad and iPhone by John Hall
