According to the developer site documentation, Google TV emulation supports live tv. Local provider list will be obtained by giving zip code of the area.
Does this work with an Indian Zip code? If yes, will the ChannelListing information of the provider be accessible free of cost or does it impose any subscription charges?
How does this actually work?
It only works for US zip codes at present. There is no charge.
I found that at least the GoogleTV I got also has only US zip-codes for location and no ability to select non-US locations not other languages but english.
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I want to develop a Miracast application for Mac OS X. (i.e. something to display imagery to a miracast-enabled device) The only problem I'm having right now is that I can't find the official specification for this.
Is it possible that you need to be a member of the wi-fi alliance to get this specification? Is this even an open standard?
Or better: Is there a (open-source) miracast library I can use?
Thanks!
Have you seen this? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/openwfd/
As for the wi-fi alliance, you don't need to be a member but it will cost you $199: https://www.wi-fi.org/wi-fi-display-technical-specification-v11
The Wifi Display spec is currently free (as in 0.0$). The download still requires agreeing to a license agreement and does not seem free to redistribute.
Also, WDS is a new but fairly complete implementation for linux and should be easy to port to other platforms as it tries very hard to keep agnostic with respect to the stacks used to handle media playback and Wi-Fi Direct. That said, the most difficult bit in Miracast seems to be Wi-Fi Direct so if your platform does not support that well, you're pretty much out of luck...
Disclaimer: I used to work on the WDS project.
As #Constantinos said you will have to pay 200$ for getting the specifications via wi-fi alliance.
Or, as you ask, you can look at the following implementation available on the internet:
Java
or C
I think there is enough example here to do what you want.
I got a Samsung Smart TV UE40D8000 (Apparently from 2011 series ?) and an iOS device.
I'd like to make them both exchange information (most likely small chunks of text), via a dedicated app on both sides;
Now, it turns out the best way would be to use the Convergence API : I've built a basic TV App that looks an awefull lot like the sample code they give, and an iOS App for UPnP discovery and sending POST requests onto the TV. UPnP discovery works great.
But on the actual device, I can't seem to be able to manage to connect : the requests to /ws/app/{appID}/connect fail (with an actual appID of course) as if there would be no server.
Is the Convergence API available for my TV ? (there does not seem to have a compatibility list anywhere) Is there a way to upgrade to a 2012 platform if it is indeed a 2011 one ?
Can we test that API on a simulator ? My simulator runs under Windows 7 in a VM on my Mac (there is not Mac version of their dev tools...)
Is there really anything I can do to have a more precise diagnostic ? like logs from the appilcation running on the TV ?
Thanks
This Convergence page sounds like existence of MultiScreenService UPnP service equals the capability of Convergence API calls. So if you say "UPnP discovery works great" (given that you do an ST-limited M-SEARCH per example, not an unrestricted UPnP discovery), it should mean that your particular TV supports Convergence. Have you tried querying the TV simply with telnet? Are you sure about the port number on which the TV listens? Here the doc claims that it should be 80 for the TV and 8008 for the simulator, but i for one am very interested in the UPnP description.xml served by the TV for MultiScreenService. You could even discover some UPnP functions for diagnostic there...
Disclaimer: i have no experience in Convergence, only UPnP in general and unfortunately Samsung in general too. The fact that Samsung pushes such half-baked proprietary mockup reminds me of my short bloody disgusting career as Bada developer. Only Sony can sustain pushing proprietary mockups with dignity :)
Your year model is 2011 and you can't upgrade to 2012.
2012 models uses API v3.5 and 2011 models uses API v2.5
So this what you try to do won't work at your device as Convergence API is in API v3.5.
Check this one
http://www.samsungdforum.com/Guide/View/Developer_Documentation/Samsung_SmartTV_Developer_Documentation_2.5/API_Reference/JavaScript_APIs/Interactive_API
It gives you possibility to communicate between devices, so maybe it will fit your needs.
Finishing answering my own question:
like #Dobiatowski mentions, I'm screwed for Convergence API and 2012 platform
The Interactive API's documentation is not clear, and virtually non-fonctionnal despite 3 days of my best effort. Half of the sentence in the documentation don't actually make sense.
Still did not manage to make the interactivity simulator to work, Looks like it's not possible on Win7
Basic answer is : not possible
I am looking into integrating MythTV with Google TV; I would like to have the same level of integration found with dish network dvr (ability to set things to record from Google TV and look-up recordings).
Is there any api that can be used for that or this is only something that google - dish can do via their partnership ?
The API your looking for will be released as part of our next major software release. Please watch Getting Your Content on Google TV for more information.
In building the Google Android app for Anymote tv control (I've got some Sony Google TVs to work with), I never actually seem to find the TV when I run it - just getting "No Google TV devices found on ". I've tried it on an actual phone (not just the emulator) and have also tried the TV "connect" pairing button, but it never seems to find anything. Both the phone and the TV are on the same WiFi network. Anybody get this to work?
Does the google-tv-remote app work on your sony google tvs? If so then I would check the source for that app, found here. This should allow you to troubleshoot why your device is not found. The process of discovering devices depends on mDns as found here in the docs. So there are several things to check in regards to making sure multicast packets are allowed on your network/device.
As a fallback I would also allow manual ip entry in case a user wasn't able to discover the device on their network, the google-tv-remote allows for this as well, I would take a look at that source to get an idea of how that applications handles different scenarios.
And as always, if it's not working, provide some examples of how you are trying to do the discovery as you haven't provided any information(source, logs, etc) for anyone to look at.
My experience with the sony google tv is that the multicast packets are reliably sent out shortly after the box is started. Paring at all other times is virtually impossible
I am trying to allow people (from a URL) to connect to a calender/contacts from their iPhone, Blackbury or Android phone - what is the best way to do this?
I've had a bit of a read and it seems that CalDAV and CardDAV are the best way to integrate calenders/contacts, but how exactly can I do this? The internet seems to lack a standard way of how you can integrate this into a number of devices.
Which mobile devices support them? And is it possible to just provide a URL and then the calender/contacts just automatically sync!?
All of this assumes you have some sort of Groupware server setup somewhere which acts as the repository for this information.
For opensource you might want to look at a product called Sogo. Apple also do a caldav/carddav server written in python. They expect you to buy a mac server but you can download the code and run it from a pc or linux box. There's a heap of paid-for groupware.
You might want to check out the "opensource" client software written by the same kids who develop Sogo caled funambol. This claims to be x-mobile (all the ones youve mentioned anyway).
The idea behind all the *DAV protocols is that yes everything is done by Uri (this was actually specced by Tim Berners Lee in his draft for the web).
I've just been through this very same process and found only emerging standards, of which *DAV are the de facto ones IMO. HTC use MS active sync on my HD2 to sync my Gmail. Go figure!
Bedework is CalDAV/CardDAV server that allows you to hook your iPhone/iCal calendar and events.
I have used it and it gives you an url to sign in with in you phone calendar. The Bedework is a server you could install on you machine (it is provided with documentation; this is a good point to start with).
Android natively does not support Bedework. In order for Android to support the CalDAV you have to install an application that supports CalDAV, but I do not know if they work with Bedewrok or not.
In the case of android you could try using the CalendarProvider and the ContactProvider. You could refer to this : http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/calendar-provider.html