Apex and Philips Pronto Remote

[tatkinson]

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm trying to get Apex data to display on my TSU9800 remote, has anyone successfully accomplished this?

It seemed like the RSS feed would have been the simplest way to go but since it requires login the pronto RSS reader doesn't like the usernameassword@xxx.xxx format. Has anyone come up with a work-around to disable the login for the RSS feed? Why is it secured to begin with?

I'm not really that great with prontoscript but TCP may be an option but I really have no idea as how to implement.

I'm really hoping someone has done a script or accomplished this because I think it would be really awesome to have the info right there.

Thanks,
-T-

 

[RussM]

There is no way AFAIK to bypass the login even for RSS & XML data.

Can the Pronto access a normal web site? Reeftronics may do the trick for you.

 

[tatkinson]

For some reason there isn't a browser, but that's not to say there isn't a way. Thanks for the tip on reeftronics, it's another avenue to explore. The remote is capable of two way communication via RS232 and TCP/IP so in theory there's a way to make it function similar to the iphone app but the nuts and bolts of it are way out of my league. I may just have to get me learn on!

 

[tatkinson]

Russ,

Seems like you're the guy to ask about Reeftronics. I've been looking over the site, could you give me an overview on how it typically works? I see that it parses the data which may be perfect for what I need. Is basically a distilled status page hosted on Reeftronics?

I've been reading over the ProntoScript developers guide but to really understand it I need to learn about java first. I totally appears complete two-way integration is possible. Below are the specs for ProntoScript.

ProntoScript is Javascript 1.5 with objects such as Activity, Page, Widget, System, Diagnostics, GUI, Input, Serial, Relay, Extender that allow you to interact with the platform around the scripting engine. No different than a Web Browser with Document, Form, Frame, etc...

The Javascript Engine (ECMA 262)in the Pronto is the C version "Spidermonkey" engine from Mozilla. It has enhancements for XML processing as called out in ECMA 357 (E4X).

 

[RussM]

Read the About and FAQ pages, then hit me up with any other questions you may still have. Sorry... I'm away from my PC, just using my phone.