Lego Spike app

[Sheridan]

Argh what a nightmare this app is - when we deployed it with our MDM it simply fails to open with the unhelpful message 'No SPIKE app running. Please start the SPIKE app and refresh your browser'

 

The error message is not much use, as why refer to a browser when its an iOS app? But, we have found what seems to be the cause - we deployed the ipads by adding the wifi settings using Apple Configurator and once connected they connect to the MDM which all works fine. However, during testing we've found that if we remove the profile and join the wifi manually the app then works (still with the MDM restrictions etc in place) Add the wifi the AC profile and its broken again!

 

So this means we'd have to manually join 100 or so ipads to the wifi just to get this crummy thing working, which seems really daft when you consider the profile ONLY contains the wifi name and password/proxy which are identical to what is used when trying the manual method

 

Has anyone else had much experience with this app?

[gerardsweeney]

Argh what a nightmare this app is - when we deployed it with our MDM it simply fails to open with the unhelpful message 'No SPIKE app running. Please start the SPIKE app and refresh your browser'

 

The error message is not much use, as why refer to a browser when its an iOS app? But, we have found what seems to be the cause - we deployed the ipads by adding the wifi settings using Apple Configurator and once connected they connect to the MDM which all works fine. However, during testing we've found that if we remove the profile and join the wifi manually the app then works (still with the MDM restrictions etc in place) Add the wifi the AC profile and its broken again!

 

So this means we'd have to manually join 100 or so ipads to the wifi just to get this crummy thing working, which seems really daft when you consider the profile ONLY contains the wifi name and password/proxy which are identical to what is used when trying the manual method

 

Has anyone else had much experience with this app?

 

 

The App, no.

 

But the Windows desktop version isn't much better.

1.3Gb installer file. Creates a 1.5Gb exe in Program Files.

Each user who runs it gets 1.5Gb of files in ".net" in their temp folder.

 

Honestly - what kind of dreck is that?