LSDave Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Does anyone know if Control4 plans on porting the MyHome app to the blackberry playbook. From the Blackberry page, it seems like it would be fairly simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I find it unlikely.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 I find it unlikely.RyanEi Just pulled the apk off my galaxy tab 7 and i may try to port it myself. I've already loaded 2.0 on my playbook and can run android apps that have been ported. Ill try it myself and see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Let me rephrase that:I find it unlikely that Control4 will do it officially.If you load Android on something, you can likely side-load the .apk just fine.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viperman Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I knew control4 had an Ipad App, but didn't know they had an Android App. This is Great news I have 3 Android Tablets and one android phone as well as an iPhone and an Ipad. So... Could I just get a site license for this and run it on everything simultaneously?Also I am running 1.7.4 could I use these 2.0 interafces with the old controller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I knew control4 had an Ipad App, but didn't know they had an Android App. This is Great news I have 3 Android Tablets and one android phone as well as an iPhone and an Ipad. So... Could I just get a site license for this and run it on everything simultaneously?Also I am running 1.7.4 could I use these 2.0 interafces with the old controller?You need to be on 2.0 or higher for both the site license and the android app I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERDrPC Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I have 2 playbooks...how did it go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 I have 2 playbooks...how did it go?i didnt have time this weekend. Hopefully this week i can take a stab at it. From what i've seen online, people have "jailbroken" the playbook and been able to load on the actual android market. Some apps work fine given they done use any specific API's that the playbook doesnt yet support for android. I saw someone using ES File Explorer on a playbook and said it worked flawlessly. Finally a SAMBA client for the playbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 i have successfully got the android app to run on the playbook, but you cannot connect to director. Im not sure if its a limitation of the 2.0 beta software. When you try and bring up the connect to director page, you get a force close screen. The app seems to work great under the test drive screen. But that doesn't help us get it connected to our automation systems. I would be really shocked if Control4 didn't port the android app to work in the playbook realm. A novice like myself got it ported in a couple hours. I don't have the know how to debug the problem, but i did set the application debug logging on and hit the email log to support button.It would be really cool if this could get working. i know a lot of people took advantage of the deals on the playbook as of late, and the hardware is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 2.0 beta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 2.0 beta?yup.hopefully the full version comes out this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 2.0 beta?yup.hopefully the full version comes out this month.For blackberry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 2.0 beta?yup.hopefully the full version comes out this month.For blackberry?Yes. The OS version for the playbook. Not Control4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Ah . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 updated to the official 2.0 release on the playbook and still a force quit message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth22 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Damn it...I was hoping it could be ported over. I'm sure it wouldn't be TOO much work for Control4 to do it. If you can run the app, and just not connect to a director, it might be an API reference or something that isn't supported. The fact that you were able to start the app tells me that its not impossible.If someone could send me the APK file (I don't have an Android device), I could try porting it myself...I doubt I'll get further than anyone else, but its worth a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 I think I just realized why it doesn't work. The playbook doesn't support samba. If the control4 app uses any type of samba to discover controllers on the network that would be a reason why it wouldn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I don't think that's it.Discovery happens over something much like uPnP, not SMB.Of course, it may use SMB to get images, etc., once connected, but I don't think it uses it on startup.That said, I didn't work on the Android app, so I'm shooting in the dark here.Sorry.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth22 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I've got RIM's Dev Tools for the PlayBook, so if I can track down an APK on Google, I'll see what I can figure out.Hopefully even if it doesn't work, I might have an idea on what Control4 might have to do. Like I said, there are API's that the PB doesn't support, but many apps should just be able to be ported over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth22 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 So I was finally able to track down an APK via Google. It took maybe 10 seconds to convert into a PlayBook .bar file.But just like when you tried, Dave, it launched and worked in Demo mode, but the moment you try to connect to a Director, you get a force close message.I ran the APK through RIM's developer tools to check the compatibility, and it came up with these two incompatibility errors:Impact Type Reason 4 uses-permission CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE3 uses-package com.google.android.mapsI don't have an Android tablet, so I have no clue why they're using Google Maps, but its gotta be something that its trying to do with the wifi, because it only crashes if you hit the Connect to Director button.Anyway, I sent off an email to myhome[at]control4.com with my experiences so far, so we'll see if they reply. I also mentioned to them that RIM has an Adobe AIR SDK for the PlayBook, so the Windows MyHome app they wrote in Adobe AIR is a possibility as well. I don't work for Control4 though, so only one of their developers with the source code can actually try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascent Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Thanks for working on this. I would love to have this work on my playbook eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulstevens Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Thanks for working on this. I would love to have this work on my playbook eventually.Same here.Thanks for working on this, and please keep us posted on progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I still see this as unlikely as BB claims to have sold 1.2m units total in 14 months after launch, as a comparison apple sold 26m iphones worldwide in the quarter ending june 30, 2012. The demand just cant be that great to justify putting costs into it vs improving ios/android apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth22 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Bump...Just wanted to give an update regarding this.I have NOT tried this with our PlayBook, as I just bought a new Google Nexus 7. But my smartphone is the BlackBerry Z10...and with the latest build of MyHome for Android, I was able to successfully port it over to the Z10.The app crashes when you first try to pair it with your Control4 system, but if you go back into the app and enter the Controller's IP address manually, it works!I have only tried to play music with our C4 system, mainly because we don't have any lighting or theater controls on it. I haven't had a chance to try the garage doors or the security system. And my 4Sight expired a couple of months ago, so I don't know if it works over 3G.But at least its progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEORY Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Documented this sometime ago.http://www.theoryav.com/blog/?p=233 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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