We’ve been working on improvements to our Recipes automation tool recently, with a few features specifically asked for by folks expecting to shoot the solar eclipse that’s coming up soon. Unfortunately, these improvements are scheduled for a larger update to the app that’s now been delayed well past the eclipse.

It’d be a shame to miss such an exciting event, so we’ve put together a special build of Cascable that’s our current app with these Recipes improvements added. This build won’t be available on the App Store (these new features will be Cascable 7 though, scheduled for later in the year), and we’re instead releasing it on TestFlight.

Important: This is pre-release software and is likely to contain bugs.

Also Important: Please take note of the behaviour of the new Recipes blocks below involving time. We’re specifically looking for feedback on this. Recipes made with the new features will not open in shipping versions of Cascable 6.x (but will work in Cascable 7 once it’s released).

New Recipes Features

• Added a “Comment” block.

• Added a “Set Exposure Setting” to directly set camera settings.

• Added an “Until Time” option to the repeat block*.

• Added a “Wait Until Time” block*.

• Various improvements to the “Wait for Input” block, including optional text-to-speech and HTTP triggers.

* These blocks will wait or repeat until the next instance of the given time. That means if you have a “Wait Until 12:00” block that gets executed at 12:01, it’ll wait for 23 hours and 59 minutes. We’re looking for feedback on this behaviour.

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