Keep all your Devices in Sync

Run your radio session on your iPhone in the field and read your email on your Mac when you're back in the shack. Everything stays in sync with Radio Mail 2.0. [upbeat music] Let's take a look at how we can keep all your device in sync. Here, I'm running Radio Mail on the Mac on the right and on the left on the iPhone. Both device have the same iCloud account, so they can sync with each other. And here I'm just going to reply to a mail on the Mac, so I have it ready in my draft. Um, you don't see the compose because it's, uh, not on my screen recorder but I'm gonna type it and it's gonna show up in the draft, uh, folder on the Mac. And if you can see on the left, it already shows on the iPhone as well. Um, and it tells you that, um, basically it's, uh, already synced. Uh, so now I have it on both device and I can go out in the field and exchange email and do various, um, session and when I come back, everything I do should be synced. So every action you take on any of your client will be reflected to all of them, whether you archive, delete, compose, uh, send, receive. Eventually all the devices will get in sync with each other as soon as they have internet connection available to them. Um, here on the top of the inbox you notice something that says updated at. This timestamp is actually the Winlink email, uh, timestamp. So when you last fetched email from the server is what this will represent. But the iCloud sync will happen, um, basically any time that, uh, the device can do it and will, uh, will keep in sync. Let's now pretend I am in the field. I'm going to do a radio session with my phone and to demonstrate that I'm going to get into airplane mode and disconnect from the Wi-Fi. Um, still shows the Wi-Fi icon for some reason. That's the screen sharing, uh, artifact. But if you look at mailbox, it shows you, um, there is no, uh, the globe with the slash represent internet and then the cloud next to it represent iCloud, meaning that you can't sync via iCloud at the moment. So I can go ahead and open my draft. I can send it via, um, radio session. So I put it in my outbox and I'm going to connect to my, um, THD75 and do a packet session to send this email to a nearby gateway. So all of this is happening without internet on the iPhone. Um, this is what you would expect if you're off grid or if you don't have any internet connection available. And the message that is going to be sent and then moved, you know, from the draft to the outbox to the sent folder or any email you would be receiving during this session will be stored in the local database of the iPhone and then next time there is an internet connection available again when you get back, um, nearby or reception or Wi-Fi, the, those messages will now sync in the background to all your device. So you have what's called eventual consistency, meaning that, um, device could get out of sync for a little bit but then eventually they will all match the data and all match the end state of your, uh, various mailboxes. So here I'm receiving a couple of email and, um, you never know what you're gonna get because people send me email all the time, which is great. I like-- I love to hear from you. It'll take a few more seconds. Here we go. And once we're done we're going to take a peek at our messages in our inbox to see what we got and, uh, make sure these are all new messages. So let's take a look. Two new messages unread. We're still offline. And here they are. So we're gonna leave them unread and then we are going to go back to the shack and get back online. So now we're back within Wi-Fi range and I'm gonna turn the iPhone back off, uh, airplane mode and connect it back to the, to the internet. And what you'll notice is-- uh, the first thing you'll notice on the, uh, Mac side is the updated at will reflect, uh, the change, uh, pretty quickly, will show you basically when we last fetched email. So this stays in sync. Basically if you do a session on one device, um, it will, uh, reflect that on all your devices. So you know basically when any of your device last fetched, um, email from the Winlink server. So that got in sync and then the rest of the mailbox is going to, uh, take a little bit of time to arrive. This is not something we can control. It's really, uh, depending on a lot of different factor of battery life, um, network connection, what other processes are running on the various device. Apple really optimized this for extended battery. Uh, but eventually all your, um, messages will be reflected, um, everywhere. So, uh, here I'm opening my messages. I have one that's read and it should also-- the, the read status will carry over from one device to the other. So and now two messages have arrived. You can see the first one is read, the other one is still marked unread and we can now read them and reply on our desktop. Send and receive in the field, read at your desk. One inbox, everything stays in sync. Mahalo and seventy-three.