Radar Box on my iPod Touch...

[oceans777]

In my never-ending quest to find ways to shrink Radar Box into a tiny set of indecipherable red and green dots, I used the RDP application on the iPod Touch to display Radar Box running on my home XP machine.

And then wondered, why?

Screen shots here: (sorry for the long Picasa link - 18 shots was too many to post here I think.

http://picasaweb.google.com/oceans777/RadarBoxOnIPodTouch?authkey=Gv1sRgCK6jl6jf8YPdOQ&feat=directlink

[Hosch]

Wow oceans777 !

This looks very interesting. Could you please post more details about RDP. Does this work via Wireless on your homenet?

Greetings from Luxembourg
Hosch

[AirNav Support]

Thats brilliant, does the ipod cope well with the RDP refresh rate or is it a bit slow?

[oceans777]

Hosch, (Luxembourg is awesome!) AirNav,

Thanks - it's actually pretty useful.
I am using Mocha Remote Desktop, from the iTunes store. It was by far the cheapest RDP app and had good reviews overall. It has very simple setup, just put in the XP machines IP, name, password (or leave blank and fill in at login for best security) and you're on.
Of course be sure Remote Desktop is enabled on the XP machine too.
I use it on my home wireless LAN but using port forwarding in your router, you could access it  from outside too. Especially with an iPhone.
My LAN is an Apple Airport Express set to 2.4GHz and G mode; connected to an Airport Extreme running at 5G  wireless mode and Gigabit.

Refresh rate is actually very good - it needs better controls I feel but Mocha says those are
coming. There are numerous other more 'serious' RDP apps around 25-45 dollars but this one
has been great so far. I also use Mocha VNC to connect to the Macs running Leopard both on
my LAN and WAN - works brilliantly and has encryption, VPN capability.

John

[viking9]

How big is your battery?

[oceans777]

My battery? On the iPod Touch just the built-in battery. Runs about 4-5 hours with WiFi on but not running non-stop that long. I have the little USB charger too which keeps me from even worrying about battery anymore. Plugs right into an outlet, no computer USB connection needed.
 I don't have an iPhone so no idea about batt life there.
 
I run Radar Box on a Mac Pro Quad core in Boot Camp, Parallels Virtual Machine and access it from the laptops or the iPod Touch. I am going to port-forward the router today to use RDP from the Internet.
Hope that answered what you were asking? If not let me know.

[viking9]

Thanks for that. I wondered how the iPod Touch was powering the RB. All clear now.

Tom

[Hosch]

Many thanks for the information oceans777.
 I'll have a try !

Hosch

[oceans777]

Great! I 'upgraded' to Jaduu RDP last night and it's much smoother.
Much better control but $25 in US.
 

[juangelb]

Hi oceans777

1- Congratulations for Your work
2- Thanks a lot for sharing
3- Do You know is it is possible to put something to Ipod to play windows media ?

I have a site that I stream live WNS with screen capture of RadarBox and audio from SBGR Tower.... It would be nice to receive trough an ipod live audio and video....


Thanks in advance. Juan

[oceans777]

juangelb,

Thanks very much!

That's a great idea you have - I'd love to see it.

I know that the Jaadu Remote Desktop ($25 US) will stream audio/video fro the XP machine to your iPod Touch. I tried it with my Axis 207MW video cam at home and the video and audio worked very well.

Also if you check the website Jaadu has an application that should automatically open the correct ports in your router and even stream to the WAN to an iPhone or iPod. (You could just go to your public IP address from the Internet and start the RDP streaming to the iPod if you have a wifi connection.)
I believe it uses SSH or VPN to do it securely but not sure.
Jaadu is very good with support should you have a problem - I use their VNC fro Macs. (I do not work for or have any affiliation with Jaadu.)

http://www.jaadurdp.com/

You can also go in Windows XP to your Programs/Acessories folder and select Remote Desktop. You can set specific limits or options that will increase your RDP quality but so far Jaadu has all the fastest settings already built in.

Hope this works out for you - there may be other apps in the iTunes Store that do this too but just sharing what I have experienced. I tried the free  RDP apps - not good at all and no audio streaming.

I use the iPod on the roof now as I adjust/setup antennas to see the real-time results, instead of climbing up and back down to check over and over. :-)

[juangelb]

Hi oceans777

1- thanks You very much for Your quick answer
2- I am afraid that I did not do the correct qustion.
3- I Have an aviation site that with several friends of mine that love taking aviation pictures, etc, etc
4- For featuring the site I started a lot of time ago to put live tower audio speakig.
5- Than started to put audio anvideo using Windows Media Emcoder
6- Till 2 or 3 months ago I Have a Streaming server Windows Media Services
and had contracted 200 clients capability.
7- Nowadays, i dont have anymore this contract, as it was very expensive.
8- Probably till the next month I will put this server again on the air with the help of a frien of mine.
9- At this time I stream directly from my broadmabd connection, but with only 20 connections due to bandwith restrictions.
10- You can access http://www.maquinasvoadoras.com.br and click on RADAR
11- It takes a long time to establish the connection, but in findigk a free slor, it will appear SBGR area radar along with speech,
12- What I am searching for ipod is something just a windows media player... like module to put to ipod .... I do not know if this kinda feature exists at all, but is what I am searching for.

Best regards. Juan

[oceans777]

juangelb,

OK I understand now - I don't know of anything but let me have a look around.
I'll check with some developers on Monday too and reply then if not before.

[juangelb]

Ok oceans777


Thanks a lot... I know that You deal wirth Mac, and alotta things more....
Maybe You finds something in helping on heese "crazy ideas"... Hahhhahhhha


Best ragards - juan