Phone apps
The same apps work with the hosted service and with your own server.
Signing in
Section titled “Signing in”The quickest way is from the website, already signed in on a computer:
- On your server’s website, open Settings → Watches and devices → Get the app, or go to
/get-app. It shows a QR code, with the code in letters and your server’s address. - In the phone app, choose Scan a QR code. Without Google Play services on Android, or if you’d rather type it, choose Enter a code, and enter the server and the code.
- Check that the server, name and email are right, then choose Sign in.
The code lasts two minutes and works once.
Or sign in with a password: choose Use another server, enter your server’s address, then your email and password. The app checks the address is a LawFive server before going on.
Invitations
Section titled “Invitations”An invitation on People also shows as a QR code. Scanning it in the app opens the form to make an account on the phone. A phone’s camera opens the web page instead, which also offers Use the app instead.
Addresses
Section titled “Addresses”| App | Which addresses work |
|---|---|
| Android | https://. Debug builds also allow http:// for a test server. |
| iPhone | https://, or http:// for a server on your local network, by IP address or a name ending in .local. |
Offline at the ground
Section titled “Offline at the ground”Each phone keeps its own copy of your matches, and an outbox of changes. It sends them when it has a connection, so poor signal at a ground doesn’t lose anything.
The Stats tab shows your games in figures and charts, worked out by your server as on the website: your role, distance, games by month, fitness and where on the pitch you spend your time, busiest kickoff times, age groups, venues, weather, cards, fees and the referees you work with most. Choose the time (all time, the last 12 months or a year) and your role at the top. The last figures for each choice stay on the phone, so they’re there without signal. Tap a column or the line to see what’s in it. Full stats at the bottom opens the website, for added time, more filters, tables and the CSV.
Merging duplicates
Section titled “Merging duplicates”The same venue or referee entered twice, often from two leagues’ schedules (Twin Creeks and Twin Creeks Sports Complex, or Sam Rivera and Rivera, Sam), can be merged on the phone as on the website. When there are likely duplicates, the Venues or Referees list says so at the top, and a venue’s or referee’s page shows which ones it’s probably the same as, with Merge… and Not the same. Find duplicates under the list shows every group, with why; Merge with… on a venue’s or referee’s edit page starts from that one. Pick the ones that are the same, then Next to choose the name to keep, and for venues what happens to each pitch, before Merge. Your server works out the suggestions and checks each choice, so merging needs a connection, and a server from before it doesn’t offer it. A merge can’t be undone.
Directions
Section titled “Directions”Every place a match or venue shows has a Directions button. It opens Google Maps or Apple Maps, as chosen under Directions open in in Settings on the website or either app: Automatic is Apple Maps in the iPhone app and Google Maps everywhere else.
Reminders
Section titled “Reminders”Match reminders are scheduled on the phone after each sync, so they work on any server. On Android, a reminder in the last 3 hours before kickoff counts down to it live, and goes away at kickoff. Tapping one opens the match, and a match with a place has a Directions button.
Weather risks
Section titled “Weather risks”On Android, Tell me about weather risks in Settings, under Match reminders, sends a notification when the forecast shows a new risk to a match in the next 3 days. It’s off until you turn it on, and the iPhone will follow. Tapping one opens the match, and a match with a place has a Directions button. See Notifications for how this reaches your phone and what passes through the relay on the way.
Matches from integrations
Section titled “Matches from integrations”If an app adds your assignments with an API key, it can tell your phone when it adds a match, or cancels, postpones, moves or removes one. Turn on Tell me about matches from integrations beside the weather risks on Android, and Tell my phones when it adds or changes matches for that key under Settings → API keys on the website. Several changes from one app in the same minute come as one notification. Tapping one opens the match, or the match list when there are several, and a match moved to another venue has a Directions button.