Tool Connect: What Tool Connect Can Do For You

With Tool Connect, you can inventory, track and inventory all of your bluetooth-enabled, DEWALT 20V MAX* batteries. You can check each batteries, state-of-charge or if the battery is enabled and ready to go or disabled and not to be used. You can also see if the battery is healthy or should be recycled. The alert allows you to find the exact battery you are looking for.

[sadev]

bought a dw03050-xj laser measurer, a fine piece of work.
but... unlike other tools you can connect to bluetooth this one demands it only to connect

to the dewalt tool connect app.
if you dont have location services on, say byebye to connecting your lasermeasurer...

so the lasermeasurer (all it does is send the numbers of a measurement through bluetooth)

only works with dewalt tool connect.
after 3 installs i got it going so it connected.

the one thing that seems great for a measuring device is if you can add it automaticly to

pictures you take of a space.
here come the
you have the choice of taking a picture or selecting one from gallery
you can take a picture. that works but then all camera features of your phone dont work,

like widescreen pictures so you get the whole space you want to measure in the picture

does not work.
no worries just go and select one from gallery.
so i take my picture with all camera options working and then in the app go to gallery

then camera and select the image.
press the ok mark and voila.... it says image not found...
so damn, you cant use a picture from on you phone due to a major flaw/error.
now you'r stuck with the standard picture you can take directly with the app.
ok lets do that.
you have a few options. straight line is the best. its just an line with 2 arrows and you

can tap it and update the measurement by having the lasermeasurer send the the numbers to

your phone.
but wait im not working on a tablet but on a phone. i try to get the arrowheads on the

right spot. damn my finger is too big its blocking the view,
lets zoom in... oh wait no zoom funtion.
damnnnn that sucks. really sucks. no way to align the arrows properly.
well lets go to rectangle... that works but the picture was not taken dead on but at an

angle.
maybe skew the rectangle.. oh no you cant . so now my picture is in perspective but the

rectangle is not.
sigh it looks bad... but waitttt maybe free form.
you get to draw on the screen really badly with your finger.
then it conjures up what theh app thinks you had drawn.
unlike the parralellogram i had in mind (skewed rectangle) i end up with 8 lines and 9

connecting/corner points.
but i only needed 4 sides and 4 corners.
lets delete a side or a corner...
oh damn thats not possible.

Dewalt take some advice from someone who knows how software like this should work.
:

1 dont make location services necessary for basic measuring with bluetooth
2 make the dam device connect with bluetooth like an input device so one can send

measurements in anything like notepad or email not just in your app
3 make it so rectangles in photomeasuring action can be skewed so as to match the photo.
4 fix the choose image from gallery flaw. i cant choose a previous taken image as it is.
5 for free form once the app creates a shape with sides and ancor points make it so you

can delete ancor points or add them so it can match up with all the corners in the picture

or floorplan after moving them around
6 for people using phones not huge tablets make it so we can zoom in and then adjust the

position of the arrows.

you really need to step up on fixing flaws like this in your app and if you cant allow

your tools to be used in conjuction with other apps.
be professional and be there for your customers

[sfosnot]

While I am a huge fan of DeWalts 20 and 12 volt tools, I fail to see how useful this would be.

[josephunson]

This feature works via bluetooth so be warned that this is completely useless when you are out of bluetooth range which we all know is quite limited. I hope Dewalt will only offer this as an option and not as a built-in feature in all their future power tools.

I’m actually very disappointed at where Dewalt is going with this. I’m on a Dewalt platform and all my batteries and chargers are Dewalts. I have been using the Dewalt DCF899 impact wrench for automotive purposes and it did 99% of the job I used it for, but I find it too heavy for roadside use. Dewalt and Milwaukee then released their mid-range impact wrenches. Both were impressively light and both bragged about having 600 ft-lbs of nut-busting torque. After reading some reviews and watching some youtube take on the same tools, however, I found the Milwaukee mid-range impact wrench to be weak and the Dewalt’s even weaker. Then Makita released their latest mid-range wrench with 740 ft-lbs of nut-busting torque. It was very impressive. Milwaukee fought back by releasing a 2nd generation of their mid-range impact. It was equally impressive. I’m sure Milwaukee fans are very happy with the company’s response to the Makita offering. I thought I’ll just wait because I don’t beleive Dewalt would allow itself to be left behind on this. I thought Dewalt would later offer a 2nd generation of their mid-range (DCF894) impact wrench with torque ranges that would be at par with the torque numbers of both Makita and Milwaukee. To my surprise, Dewalt never did. They just took the 1st-gen DCF894, installed a bluetooth chip on it for its “Tool Connect” feature, then offer it on the market as the more expensive DCF896. I’m now stuck with my bulky and heavy DCF899 even for roadside use. It sucks!

Same thing happened with their impact driver DCF887. Professionals would always use a regular drill for making holes but for homeowners who just want to DIY most of their works, an impact driver is preferred. This is especially true when using bits with larger diameters such as spade drill bits or speedbore (auger) bits because the impacting actions on the gears of an impact driver dampens all kickbacks that always happens in a regular drill when using larger bits. In other words, when using larger bits, an impact driver is more wrist-friendly.

The problem is there are two European youtube reviews where Dewalt’s top-of-the-line DCF887 overheated while in use. There are also three youtube reviews here in the U.S. where it literally went up in smoke. Dewalt’s response? Instead of coming up with a new gen of impact driver with an improved heat-dissipation system in its engine, Dewalt took their DCF887, installed a bluetooth in it for its “Tool Connect” feature then offer it in the market as the more expensive DCF888. What Dewalt did here exactly is offer its fans a more expensive tool to smoke. When you are heavily invested on a Dewalt platform like me, it is very frustrating and it really sucks!

[txmatt]

I'm not sure I get this either? But people who use them for a living may disagree?