WAP Access

[tieke]

Yep - I too was impressed with Opera, which almost worked for me on a Panasonic x700: I could login, search guide etc, but it gave an error whenever I went to actually schedule a show. I may try the latest web-server version and see if that fixes it.

[djtaylor]

It's time to update the phone then . The majority have color screens now.
I MEAN THIS AS NO INSULT AT ALL to your phone btw. :-)

I know where you're coming from but there are very good reasons why I have this phone and not one of these modern toys that tries to do a bit of everything:-

1. It's a seriously good business phone, 17 days standby battery life and I always get a signal when some others fail.

2. My wife has a 6210 and both our cars have a nicely wired full duplex car kits with interface cable to the front speakers so that would be two car kits I'd have to modify as well as replace my wifes phone.

3. It's difficult to get a phone *without* a camera these days. This is important to me because I visit military and government installations where camera phones are usually banned.

4. (I lied, I said 3 reasons ) I don't *need* anything else, it's a phone I need, I want to make phone calls - odd these days I know, if I want to browse the web, I use a laptop and 3G datacard where necessary.

Besides showshifter has an addon for normal WAP, works just fine, it is the ONE thing I miss with gbpvr and the addons available there.

I guess i'm just old, whereas I think it's pretty cool to be able to write a working and useful full length programme in 2 bytes in assembler, why bother when you can call a .NET library and do the same in 10MB?

The other reason for being extremely lightweight in data is that many GPRS data packages are charged by data quantity hence the absolute least amount of data is preferable in my view. I get pretty jaded when I see labels attached to bundles that say things like:-

"4MB data bundle, this is approximately 8000 WAP pages or 200 emails"

200 emails? in HTML? downloaded to a laptop with all the IP and SMB traffic overhead, not to mention that if you tried that you'll typically have all the other networking crap that automatically wakes up and fires off traffic. Ok so they're aiming those stats at the phone browser maybe but it's still more efficient to keep it neat and tidy.



David.

[stu8080]

4. (I lied, I said 3 reasons ) I don't *need* anything else, it's a phone I need, I want to make phone calls - odd these days I know, if I want to browse the web, I use a laptop and 3G datacard where necessary.

Good point!

After messing about with opera for a while i realised its not that easy, you have to navigate 4-5 pages each time to get where you want.

Understanding you want to keep things simple, one feature i use a lot is the statistics page of web admin to see if i need to start deleting shows. Could a wap browser get a '% full' figure would this be useful or just extra clutter?

[djtaylor]

Could a wap browser get a '% full' figure would this be useful or just extra clutter?

I don't see why not. Have an interface something like:-

Choose channel
BBC1 ( )
BBC2 ( )
ITV1 ( )
etc.
xxMB (yy%) free

then after the radio button channel choice:-

Start time [...]
End time[...]
OK

Who needs a gui browser?!

David.

[stu8080]

Yeah, simple is best. id use it if i was in the pub or something and was told about a show, or a good match was on i wanted to record.

[libop]

Hi everyone ! Glad that people are interested in my project.

Anyway, I was away of GBPVR programming last weeks because of huge work besides.
So, for the last weeks, I used a Wap Access I made that is working well. You can find some screenshots here :

Login screen (doesn't work, you can login without typing name and password)


Scheduling


Scheduled Shows



this is a IE screenshot but it works on my motorola rokr e1. It only uses mobile components so it should work on any WML 1.1+ enabled phone.

The bad point is that I still cannot work with the login screen. I disabled it (i can't remember how) but that's not secure at all... As I do have a little time ahead, I'm returning on working on it...

It's not finished at all but if you're interested in having the c# source files to try by yourselves, just ask

[libop]

For those who are interested, I've uploaded the source files I made and use to wap-schedule my recordings.

http://libop.free.fr/projets/gbpvr/web.rar

Before downloading and testing it, please read below :

/!\ This version, which cannot even be called as a project since it's in its very early hours, implies that the login screen is made useless, I mean no authorization is required !

To make it work correctly, as test purpose only, all you have to do is to replace your "/web" directory by the one in the .rar file. Nothing else.
The base versions are :
GBPVR v0.96.12
GBPVRBackendCommon.dll : 1.0.2254.33780
GBPVRPublic.dll : 1.0.2254.11381
gbweb.dll : 1.30.2210.22305
So it may not work with other versions.

I strongly recommend you to backup your /web directory before replacing it.

Once you replaced your /web directory by the new one, you may access your wap scheduling website by giving your mobile the address, if your port for gbpvr enhanced web admin is 7647 :
http://yourip:7647/gbpvr/WAP_Login.aspx

Of course, your GBPVR Enhanced WebAdmin has to be accessible from the outside of your local area network.

Once installed, the wap access should provide you the ability to schedule what u want as far as you know on which channel and at what time your show starts and ends.

EDIT : I forgot to add that once you performed a scheduled, there's no confirmation message. The scheduling form should reappear. If so, it worked well, you may check on GBPVR if the record is well 'scheduled'.


Please let me know what u think about it and please be kind... It really is the early hours of the wap access for gbpvr.

[bhays]

Has there been any recent progress on this project? Scheduling recordings via phone is a very cool idea. Verizon has a Get It Now app for Tivo I noticed.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Has there been any recent progress on this project? Scheduling recordings via phone is a very cool idea. Verizon has a Get It Now app for Tivo I noticed.

Don't know.....

You can access EWA from your phone and set the theme (in the config tab) to mobile.....I know some others have done that.....