Personally you'll pry harmony away from my cold, dead hands, but this looks like a nice cheap option if you're squeamish about spending $100 on a remote.
The opportunities for integration with HTPC software sure is interesting though...
This seems like an interesting idea if you live alone or everyone in the house has an iPhone.
"Sorry honey you'll have to use the 5 remotes to get the TV working because I'm not home with my phone."
Ya as much as I enjoy using my iPhone as an Apple TV remote, it's annoying if your phone goes to sleep. You have to wake it, put in a passcode and wait for your wifi to reconnect. Only about a 5 second process but when the phone is ringing you want the show paused right away.
On a side note, does 4.0 give you the option to turn off auto-sleep? I always had it set to never sleep, but I think the firmware I'm on removed that option and I'm hoping newer firmware updates brought it back.
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On a side note, does 4.0 give you the option to turn off auto-sleep? I always had it set to never sleep, but I think the firmware I'm on removed that option and I'm hoping newer firmware updates brought it back.
Isn't that just Settings->General->Auto-Lock? If so, that still works on my iPhone 3G with the 4.0 OS.
Ya as much as I enjoy using my iPhone as an Apple TV remote, it's annoying if your phone goes to sleep. You have to wake it, put in a passcode and wait for your wifi to reconnect. Only about a 5 second process but when the phone is ringing you want the show paused right away.
On a side note, does 4.0 give you the option to turn off auto-sleep? I always had it set to never sleep, but I think the firmware I'm on removed that option and I'm hoping newer firmware updates brought it back.
What if your iphone is ringing, and you need to make it pause/mute? You have to hang up, mute and call back? No one can change the channels while dad is on the phone?
The infra red dongle is really too big and awkward to keep in full time, so where do you store it? How easy would that be to lose?
I haven't tested it on the iPad, but it should (theoretically) allow tethering without jailbreaking. It's $0.99, and it will probably be pulled any minute.
Hopefully one of you guys with an iPad can test this out. There's a proxy section in the WiFi setup for the iPhone, I assume there's one for the iPad too.
(Substitute "iPad" for "computer" in these instructions.)
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# Set up an ad hoc Wi-Fi network on your computer (network name and password requirement are not important).
# Connect to the Wi-Fi network you just created on your iPhone through the Settings/Wi-Fi menu.
# Tap on the blue arrow to the right of the selected Wi-Fi network, click Static in the IP Address menu and enter the following IP address and chuckle at its geek quotient: 13.37.13.37
# Next, enter 255.255.255.0 in the Subnet Mask field.
# Back out of the Settings menu to ensure these settings are saved (though hitting the Home button right away shouldn’t change them).
# Go to your Mac or PC and change the network settings to use the SOCKS Proxy and enter 13.37.13.37 as the Socks Proxy Server address and 1337 as the port.
# Be sure to apply/save these settings.
# Go back to your iPhone and open the Handy Light app and tap the flashlight colors at the bottom in the following sequence: blue, yellow, red. Then tap the top right corner of the screen and the color should change to purple. Your iPhone is now capable of sharing its internet connection with the computer you set up.
# Leave the app open and go to your computer and start browsing. As the video describes, we found that it took a few seconds for the connection to kick in but then it worked like a charm. Though many variables affect network speed tests, a quick test using Speedtest.net yielded 3.92 Mb/s down and 0.38 Mb/s up while tethered to our iPhone 4 through Handy Light.
Edit: Snag #1... Doesn't look like it's possible to create a new network on an iPad/iPhone.
Turning it off completely (Auto Lock Never) hasn't been around for a while
It's in "Settings" "General" "Autolock" I'm using iOS 4.0.1 not jailbroken. That option has been there since the day I got the 3GS. it came with iOS 3.0 I believe.
It's in "Settings" "General" "Autolock" I'm using iOS 4.0.1 not jailbroken. That option has been there since the day I got the 3GS. it came with iOS 3.0 I believe.
Too weird...
My buddy, who isn't the most tech savvy asked me how I turned the auto lock off so it wouldn't pop up after a certain time (mine is 3 minutes). His ipod touch doesn't have it... he goes to that menu and it doesn't give him any options but to leave the auto lock on.
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It's in "Settings" "General" "Autolock" I'm using iOS 4.0.1 not jailbroken. That option has been there since the day I got the 3GS. it came with iOS 3.0 I believe.
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