ajturner wrote:Could do a lot of interesting things like measuring ambient room light via the iPhone to then set the room lights accordingly. Or using the accelerometers to "shake" at devices to turn them on/off. Or "rotate" to change volume or light-level.

ethank wrote:but it does work and makes for an expensive remote control

Robert Fischer wrote:Dear iRed user,

I am very proud to release the first preview version of iRed 2 NOW.
It has been no beta testing yet, it's a preview release, however, I hope you understand, why I let it go into the wild so quickly:

iRed 2 runs on the iPhone!

Well, not really, because Apple has closed this device, but I've found an elegant way to use the resources I got, that is Safari on the iPhone! At least I hope that everything works as expected. I don't own an iPhone, too! You know, it's a little bit difficult here in Germany to get hold of this magic device.

If you are NOT an owner of an iPhone, you may be pleased as well, because you will also benefit from the massive technical overhaul:
- All VRCs are now free scalable, do support multiple fonts, images, what you like.
- Online repository, to download and share VRCs, IR codes and AppleScripts
- Very easy way to access a VRC with a web browser, even from anywhere on the Internet

Please have a look at "www.filewell.com/iRed2" to see some screenshots.
On a second page (www.filewell.com/iRed2/preview.html) there are the download links, screenshots of iRed 2 and the link to the manual with much more details.

Although I do NOT yet recommend to switch to iRed 2 completely, you may try out the new app without harming your iRed 1 installation. iRed 2 will import your archive at first startup, then you may import your VRCs just by Drag&Drop a VRC onto iRed 2's icon. All IR codes and AppleScripts will be imported, too. It will NOT import triggers, tuners, sequence codes, etc. yet. AppleScripting iRed 2 is also under construction, as well as control with commandline "ired", via sockets, or ired:// protocol.
The IRTrans configuration is worse than in iRed 1, no modules panel, etc., but it works at least as good as on iRed 1.

One caveat: iRed 1 and iRed 2 can't run at the same time!


So, please give it a try, I am eager to get your feedback, especially if you own an iPhone, and I will fix any problems which may occur, ASAP.



Stay tuned,

Robert

stoney wrote:I ran across this: http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev/browse_thread/thread/f43493a828dffdb3

It seems that the key is to use a line like:

<meta>

in the head of the server pages. The thread goes into more detail, but I've patched my server templates, and the Indigo pages now open perfectly on my iPhone.

editordz wrote:could one of you kindly post how to accomplish this? I've looked at the templates, but it doesn't seem to be HTML code.

thanks,
dan