I just created an HTML file. The browser allows me to bookmark the file:///mnt/sdcard/Dropbox/cams.html link. However, if I try to add this bookmark to the home screen, when I click on it it says the app is no longer installed. Weird. So I still have to start the browser and go into my bookmarks list to get it working. But, the cams play just fine. I just wanted to make this easy for my wife to view the cams. Wirefly has awesome deals on the Mytouch 4g, and my wife lost her blackberry a couple of days ago, so I ordered her one up. Go figure, I paid double for mine through T-mobile a week ago. There are a couple of cam apps for Android, but they either don't support rtsp at all (only MJPEG), or they don't support the weird audio codec that my cams use. The built in Media Room app streams it all just fine, but you cannot directly type the URL into it. Stupid. On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Jay Austad wrote: > I could do that... I already thought about that. > > But I wanted to do it as an app to get some experience developing for Android. Android's built in VPN client config stuff is VERY limited. I'd like to make a new frontend for it that allows me to modify the Phase 1 and Phase 2 proposals and use XAUTH, and configure multiple tunnels that could be up simultaneously. Also, the app I want for my home automation system control is $100 on Android. A comparable one on the iPhone with more features is less than half the price. I have all of the tables for the commands to send and the decoding information for it, so I was thinking about making one the way I want it and selling it for less. $100 is a steep price for an app that doesn't quite do what I want. > > I found a couple of really cool dev platforms that allow you to write your app once and then compile for multiple platforms: > - Titanium Developer > - RhoMobile > - PhoneGap > > I grabbed RhoMobile and am playing around with it. Titanium Developer is sweet, but you have to buy a monthly membership to view the tutorials. Being able to write the apps in Ruby or Python is huge for me since I don't know java at all and don't really have the desire to learn it. And, I can compile the app for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android using a single codebase. > > On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Bret Baptist wrote: > >> The simple things in life... >> >> >> Bret. >> >> On Monday, November 15, 2010 05:21:47 pm Justin Krejci wrote: >>> I've never used android before so forgive me if this does not make >>> sense. >>> Can you just make a little cameras.html file somewhere (perhaps even >>> store it on your android) that has URLs to all of your cameras like: <a >>> href="rtsp://camera1.domain.com/">Camera1</a>. Then just open the file >>> in your browser and click on the links. >>> >>> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 17:11 -0600, Jay Austad wrote: >>>> Not necessarily. If I try to open an rtsp:// link in the browser, it >>>> passes it to my media player. The thing is, the browser on Android will >>>> NOT allow me to bookmark anything other than http or https links. I >>>> have a bunch of security cameras that do real time streaming over RTSP, >>>> and I want a way to bookmark them. The media player won't let me do >>>> bookmarks at all. >>>> >>>> On Nov 12, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Perry Hoekstra wrote: >>>>> By open, do you mean into the browser? >>>>> >>>>> Perry Hoekstra >>>>> >>>>> On 11/12/2010 5:12 PM, Jay Austad wrote: >>>>>> Just trying to figure out how to modify the Hello, Android tutorial >>>>>> program to display a button that will open a hardcoded URL. The URL >>>>>> might not just be HTTP, it could be ftp, rtsp, or any number of other >>>>>> protocols. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> jay austad | 612.423.1433 | austad at signal15.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>>> -- >>>> jay austad | 612.423.1433 | austad at signal15.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> -- >> Bret Baptist >> Senior Network Administrator >> bbaptist at iexposure.com >> Internet Exposure, Inc. >> http://www.iexposure.com >> (612) 676-1946 x117 >> >> Providing Internet Services since 1995 >> Web Development ~ Search Engine Marketing ~ Web Analytics >> Network Security ~ On Demand Tech Support ~ E-Mail Marketing >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > jay austad | 612.423.1433 | austad at signal15.com > > > > -- jay austad | 612.423.1433 | austad at signal15.com