Few questions

[stbluesrul]

In a future release will there be an option to enable the iPhone
status bar when iViewer is running?

Any plans to have multiple control systems under project properties?
Also, in a future release will it be possible to map the iPhone's two
external hardware buttons to commands? Similar to how Intelliremote
does? http://forum.melloware.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7434&p=15112&hilit=hardware+button#p15112

Is it possible to ping a PC with the iViewer? I want to use this as a
way of checking if HTPC's are on or not when the ping reply is
received from the HTPC I am pinging.

[Jarrod Bell]

Status bar will be able to be shown/hidden in next release by using a
loopback system (UDP 255.255.255.255) and sending iViewer its own
commands and parsing the command to enable a digital join that the
status bar uses.
There is a few ways to do this in the next version actually, more on
that when release is due.
This can already be done if using the 'ControlSystem' protocols (see
our wiki for the differences between Control Systems and External
Systems)

No plans for multiple control systems in a single GUI file. But you
can already load multiple GUI files into cache by linking a button to
load a new GUI file (see the button properties dialog for more help).

Using hardware buttons for control was not possible previously,
perhaps a recent SDK update has made that possible. I believe it will
still control the volume of the iPhone itself however, which makes it
a pain. The iPhone volume level would show up, but have no reflect to
the actual volume level of any system being controlled. Perhaps we can
route those buttons to perform a digital join action, or maybe perform
commands/macros. We will look into this more for a future release.

To check if a PC is on, just create a system that connects to some
server on the PC (eventghost, MCE Controller, etc) and use the
Connection status digital join to show connection status in the GUI.
If it can connect, then its online. Otherwise its off.
You can then use the WOL helper to generate a command to send via UDP
to wake up the PC if your PC supports WOL feature.

Jarrod

On Mar 2, 1:16 pm, stbluesrul <paul.l.cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In a future release will there be an option to enable the iPhone
> status bar when iViewer is running?
>
> Any plans to have multiple control systems under project properties?
> Also, in a future release will it be possible to map the iPhone's two
> external hardware buttons to commands?  Similar to how Intelliremote

> does?  http://forum.melloware.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7434&p=15112&hilit=har...

[stbluesrul]

Thanks for the quick reply Jarrod.

Does the iViewer have a URL schema for launching from another program
or safari?

[Jarrod Bell]

I don't think we have one set at the moment, but will be adding one
eventually. So many things we are working on... wish we had 10 more
developers on our team! :)

Jarrod

[stbluesrul]

Using MCE Controller as a control system under the project properties
I'm able to get a subpage to show and disappear when the PC is ON or
OFF.

I tried adding a system for MCE Controller in the system manager as an
external system but I couldn't get it to work. I had the conneciton
join set to 5 and the subpage set to 5 as well. I also had the check
box "maintain constant connection" checked. When it's connected the
subpage or button does not show. Am I doing something wrong or is it
not possible this way? I'm trying to monitor 4 PC's that are tucked
away in a closet. So I assume that I would just add 4 different
systems that all connect to MCE Controller to monitor the PC's.

If I were to use Intelliremote as a control system now would it be
possible to get the iPhone status bar to show? I believe
Intelliremote has added the commandfusion protocol.

On Mar 1, 6:40 pm, Jarrod Bell <jar...@guilink.com> wrote:

[Jarrod Bell]

There's some issues with the connection status joins in the current
build. All fixed already for next release.
Then it will work exactly as you expect.

Try activating the following joins for status bar via intelliremote:
Toggle status bar: d17922
Show status bar: d17931
Hide status bar: d17932

Jarrod

[stbluesrul]

Just updated to the latest version of iViewer. I was actually using
ControlFX for about the past week for development since it was at a
later release then iViewer. I like the new icon and the loading
page. In a future version of the guiDesigner will it be possible for
us to create our own loading pages?

[Jarrod Bell]

The loading page graphic is embedded in the app and cannot be
programmatically changed unfortunately.
The only way to get a custom loading screen is to fully OEM our app.

Jarrod

[stbluesrul]

Thanks for the quick reply Jarrod.

In the latest release of iViewer is there a URL schema defined?

[Jarrod Bell]

No URL schema yet. Will get it done for next release.
What are your planned usages for the URL schema?

Jarrod

[stbluesrul]

I have a lot of customers setup with Prowl. So when they get a
notification that a light, TV, or garage door have opened/turned on
they get a notification via prowl. On the notification you the option
to close it or launch a program. The launching of third party
programs is handled via URL schema.

> > > > > > > There is afewways to do this in the next version actually, more on

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[Jarrod Bell]

wow prowl looks very interesting! We were looking into creating our
own notification server and events, but using Prowl might be a whole
lot easier.
All we would need to do is create a nice customisable URL schema,
where you can launch iViewer and tell it what page to go to, or even
set a join value, etc.
Maybe something like cf://pagename/d4=1/s2=alarm%20raised

We will get this done soon, unfortunately didnt make it to the next
release because we were going to add it along with notifications. But
now that Prowl can be used instead, I think this is a much simpler
solution.

Jarrod

[Jarrod Bell]

On second thoughts, this requires another app to be installed on the
users device, and not as customisable as I'd like.
We will still be rolling our own notification server.

Jarrod

On May 7, 1:45 am, stbluesrul <paul.l.cra...@gmail.com> wrote:

[stbluesrul]

Prowl is somewhat limited on how customizable it is. But, it does
encompass a lot of different software.

Can you give an insight on how your own notification server will work?

[Jarrod Bell]

We are still a fair way off getting our notifications happening, but
it would be a matter of sending an event to our website (where
registered devices can be targeted) and then we handle the rest.

Jarrod

[stbluesrul]

What other customization were you looking for in the notification?
Being that you are still a little ways out on your notification
server, I think using Prowl for the iPhone and Growl for Windows works
great right now.

On May 7, 8:41 am, Jarrod Bell <jar...@guilink.com> wrote:
> We are still a fair way off getting our notifications happening, but
> it would be a matter of sending an event to our website (where
> registered devices can be targeted) and then we handle the rest.
>
> Jarrod
>
> On May 8, 1:35 am, stbluesrul <paul.l.cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>

> >Prowlis somewhat limited on how customizable it is.  But, it does

> > encompass a lot of different software.
>
> > Can you give an insight on how your own notification server will work?
>
> > On May 6, 9:27 am, Jarrod Bell <jar...@guilink.com> wrote:
>
> > > On second thoughts, this requires another app to be installed on the
> > > users device, and not as customisable as I'd like.
> > > We will still be rolling our own notification server.
>
> > > Jarrod
>
> > > On May 7, 1:45 am, stbluesrul <paul.l.cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> > > > I have a lot of customers setup withProwl.  So when they get a

> > > > notification that a light, TV, or garage door have opened/turned on

> > > > they get a notification viaprowl.  On the notification you the option

[Jarrod Bell]

Mainly not requiring another app on the device. Having everything done
through our servers instead.

Jarrod