Plugin: Mobile Web Interface 1.2

[popechild]

Originally Posted by xj-boonie

Just wondering if there will be a remote page, so I could stop/start/pause, etc.

Out of curiousity, because I've never really understood this - do people really sit around and control their Sage playback with their phones instead of using a normal remote? I've got to be missing something. Or is this just useful when you want to screw with whoever's home watching your tv while you're out?

[nspindel]

Hahahah. Funny! Actually, I quite like being able to control Sage from my phone. My son is now old enough where he's staying up later than when my wife and I go to bed. So now, instead of us continuously screaming for him to turn the tv off and go to sleep, I just kill Sage from my phone. I can control the lights from my phone too. My son is not very happy....

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by popechild

Or is this just useful when you want to screw with whoever's home watching your tv while you're out?

I like to pause/power off/change channel on the kids' MVPs while I'm away. It drives them mad...

[Mark SS]

Great work Jason, works well on a Nokia 8800 which has Opera mini as the browser. The way the browser highlights links makes it difficult to see where you are sometimes but it does the job.

Sat in a bar in Thailand and heard someone mention that the new season of 24 starts in the UK on Monday. 2 minutes later a new favourite is setup and its ready to record, cheers!

[jreichen]

Originally Posted by popechild

No problem. It's not a big deal - I'm used to having to shut down the service in order to make upgrades, it was just confusing since the installation instructions specifically state that you don't have to. So maybe just consider updating the instructions and I doubt anyone will really care.

Thanks for the feedback. I added a note on a couple pages to tell Windows users that they might have to restart SageTV.

[jreichen]

Originally Posted by xj-boonie

Installed this last night and it works and looks great on my iPhone.

Just wondering if there will be a remote page, so I could stop/start/pause, etc.

Thanks,
Mike

I would like to add it, but when I created a prototype and tested it in Opera mini, the page kept refreshing and losing track of the button that was clicked. The usability was so poor it wasn't even worth pursuing. Safari on the iPhone might be different - especially with it being a touch screen, but I haven't tried it.

If anything, I think a more traditional application (J2ME, iPhone, etc) would work better anyway. I'd like to try Melloware's Intelliremote iPhone application but I don't have Windows.

[bcjenkins]

So when you click on 3, you couldn't pass it back to the same page as a variable?

B

[jreichen]

That might be possible, but after the page "reloaded" it was always repositioned at the top, so '3' may not be visible any more if it was very far down the page. I use "reloaded" in quotes because I was using Ajax, so the page shouldn't reload and I didn't find out what was actually happening.

[ElGato]

Originally Posted by jreichen

The SageTV Mobile Web Interface is now officially available!

This is great, would love to see more features, not sure what, but maybe streaming?

[btrcp2000]

Okay, somewhere between version 1 and version 1.01, I apparently got REALLY stupid. Had it all up and running, then did a complete reinstall and am just now getting around to setting up the mobile app.

Neilm is running successfully
All on same pc, nothing tried from outside yet
Changed the port in jettystarter, but nothing else
Pointing the browser to http://(sageserver):8081/sage/m/menu.jsp give me a "cannot conect message"

Where do I start looking for problems? Thanks!

Debug says:
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.274 Loading startup runnable:net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.275 Loaded startup runnable:net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.276 Loading startup runnable:net.sf.sageplugins.jetty.starter.Main
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.276 ERROR Loading startup runnable extension of:java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.sf.sageplugins.jetty.starter.Main
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.276 Starting UPnP NAT Manager...
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.277 Starting webserver with args: [-p, 8080, -root, webserver, -t, throttles.properties, -s, servlets.properties, -r, realms.properties, -a, aliases.properties, -nohup

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by btrcp2000

Okay, somewhere between version 1 and version 1.01, I apparently got REALLY stupid. Had it all up and running, then did a complete reinstall and am just now getting around to setting up the mobile app.

Neilm is running successfully
All on same pc, nothing tried from outside yet
Changed the port in jettystarter, but nothing else
Pointing the browser to http://(sageserver):8081/sage/m/menu.jsp give me a "cannot conect message"

Where do I start looking for problems? Thanks!

Debug says:
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.274 Loading startup runnable:net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.275 Loaded startup runnable:net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.276 Loading startup runnable:net.sf.sageplugins.jetty.starter.Main
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.276 ERROR Loading startup runnable extension of:java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.sf.sageplugins.jetty.starter.Main
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.276 Starting UPnP NAT Manager...
Sat 1/24 1:19:36.277 Starting webserver with args: [-p, 8080, -root, webserver, -t, throttles.properties, -s, servlets.properties, -r, realms.properties, -a, aliases.properties, -nohup

Follow the instructions on the wiki first.

Open up Sage.properties file and the following line (note: If the key has multiple values, they need to be separated by a semicolon) sagex.jetty.starter.Main
should be added to this line: load_at_startup_runnable_classes

Gerry

[btrcp2000]

Okay, fair enough. I must not have saved the props file or the service wasn't shut down, because I still had the line from Brent's original thread in there. In any case, still not working, after stopping, editing, restarting and double checking both edits post-restart.

Sage props has this:

load_at_startup_runnable_classes=sagex.jetty.starter.Main

Jettystarter has this:

# The port on which Jetty listens for requests. The default is 8080 and is specified
# in etc/jetty.xml.
jetty.port=8081

What am I missing?

EDIT: Multiple stops/restarts seem to have woken it up, it's working now. I hope I'm smarter now, I have no idea what changed!

[harrijay]

Is there any way to turn authentication off? I am using LDAP auth through apache for the root of my webserver and I don't want to have to login at each stop. Nielm's webserver had the walkthrough on how to do this for his server thought it might be possible for the mobile version also.

Thanks,
Jayson

[jreichen]

Yes it can be done. I haven't needed much more than a basic username/password for all URLs so far so I haven't researched the other possibilities or documented it much.

If you want to turn off authentication for the mobile web interface, open SAGE_HOME/jetty/contexts/sagewebapp.xml and look for the following line

<Set name="authenticate">true</Set>

and change true to false. That should be all it takes.

[jreichen]

Version 1.1 of the Mobile Web Interface is now available! This has some more significant changes than the last update, plus a few bug fixes that have been reported in this thread. It is also recommended that you get the latest version of the Jetty server plugin (1.5).

1.1 January 30, 2009

• Search for airings
• Customizable menu
• Multiple selection of airings and recordings
• Add search string to [link] URL on search pages
• Add show description to lists of airings and recordings
• Improve confirmation for deletion of recordings and favorites
• Fix links in pages to support reverse proxies
• Add category, rating, extended rating, year, and misc fields to search pages

Enjoy, and as always I look forward to your feedback and suggestions.

[matt91]

Originally Posted by jreichen

It is also recommended that you get the latest version of the Jetty server plugin (1.5).

The wiki page (http://tools.assembla.com/sageplugins/wiki/JettyUpgrade) notes what to do to upgrade to 1.3 or 1.4. Anything special to upgrade to 1.5?

[jreichen]

There's nothing special to do if you're upgrading from 1.4 to 1.5. If you're upgrading from an earlier version you'll need to follow the instructions for the versions you're upgrading past.

[btrcp2000]

very cool, been waiting for this (airing search) since day one!

is there any way to move the search button closer to the search box, or allow the search query to be launched by hitting the enter key while the cursor is in the box? just searching for some keywords seems sufficient for 99.99% of my needs, so i rarely need to adjust all the drop downs. it would be quicker if it wasnt necessary to scroll all the way down. just a thought, i love it either way, thanks for your work!

[FlyingDoc]

I have just set up the original webserver as well as this one and i am close but not quite there. I have a treo 700w with windows mobile. i can see the pages from sage amd navigate through them but cant "press" any of the buttons to interact with sage. eg i can open the listings page and see the current listings. i can use the drop downs to select a different day /tine/range but i cant select or "press" the update button. Niether the touch screen or the navigation keys seem to work.

I am thinking it must be something in the phone ...any ideas???

Thanks

Peter

[jreichen]

Can you verify they work in IE/FF?