I can't find any information about whether or not the Amazon Fire TV (original release as of the posting of this question) supports the HbbTV specification.
I'm building an app using the TAL framework, and I've successfully added my hello world application as a web app hosted on my local server to the Amazon Fire TV, via the Web App Tester Tool.
But I am at a loss with HbbTV. Perhaps Amazon doesn't support it? I can't find any documentation that says either way.
no support for HbbTV in the box, but the TAL framework seems okay (on both original and Stick) as the BBC News app is how I get my fix most mornings in the US
As the FireTV doesn't seem to support external USB devices at the moment I'm not sure that even with a USB HbbTV you'd be able to rig something up (and the Stick has no USB port, apart from power)
I've read some folks are working on HbbTV over IP but not seen a working solution yet (though assume if there was just a local IP stream the FireTV like any Android device could work with that)
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We are developing a multimedia conference application and want to connect to Lync or Skype for Business.
Now we can transfer video stream (H264) and audio stream between Skype and our client.
But sharing stream stuck us,especially parsing the RDP protocol.
We have got the RDP stream,but how to get sharing contents?(Only the graphics data)
Our application run on Linux, Mac and Windows(mostly on Linux).
So is there any third-party solutions to deal with the RDP?
As I known, Polycom has completed this function.
Please keep noted that the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was replaced by Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) when using Skype for business. See here or here for more infos. As VBSS is the new standard, this might explain your issue. A possible solution might be to check how you can start using Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS). I wouldn´t start building something on RDP as Microsoft might remove that in further version as there is VBSS.
However as you didn´t specify more infos for your "Solution" its not easy to give you and advise. Keep also noted that this isn´t the case for Lync. But as you specified Skype for Business and Lync I´m not sure if you see the issues with both server versions.
I work with POS devices. We have a cross-platform mobile Xamarin App which talks to POS devices using Bluetooth or USB.It would be a great help if you can do that.
No you cannot, unfortunately the only way to interact with any device needed by the mobile client is through web requests. Unfortunately this is limited because no 1 BLE solution would work for everyone (actually it would only work for very few).
Another challenge is that the automated UI tests will run in the order determined by Xamarin Test Cloud and you may potentially have multiple devices interacting with your one device.
You could do this all locally though on your own device. You would just trigger the UITest locally through the command line and have the BLE device by your phone. I know this isn't ideal, but really one of your best options here.
The other option you have is creating a middle-man for your POS devices. Basically the middleman would be a REST API hosted on some IoT device that contains BLE integration. You would than have to forward the BLE requests from the IoT device to your POS device, but this solution would require larger time frames for the data to transfer and wouldn't necessarily be a "real-world" testing scenario. I would expect that you would have some false failure tests due to the details with creating this solution. I have done something similar for Particle, but I was only able to run UI Tests on 1 device at a time.
Disclosure: I work for Xamarin/Microsoft.
I want to develop a FirefoxOS privileged app that can send text messages to nearby devices.
Android app can use Bluetooth or Wifi P2P. But FirefoxOS privileged apps cannot use Bluetooth/Wifi API. These are only available for certified apps.
Privileged apps can use TCP socket API. Is this the only way?
Is there any way to get available IP addresses on LAN?
#Kazhik, unfortunately right now, that is the only way to go. And the explanation for that is that by using the socket API you can implement any protocol on top of TCP, such as IMAP, IRC, POP, HTTP, etc., or even build your own to sustain any specific needs you could have.
Since certified apps can only be included by the oem, access to Bluetooth or WiFi information API aren't a viable option now.
At today's date (September 18, 2015) the WebIDE supports installing certified apps in older Firefox OS versions like 1.3 and in physical devices.
I tried installing the Gaia test apps (these are certified) in one Alcatel OT FireC and everything worked perfectly fine ;)
DNS-SD (part of the Zeroconf specification) allows you to broadcast and receive "advertisements" from other devices on the local network. That requires UDP and TCP permissions, which means a "privileged" app, as you thought. That's not a problem, unless you need to distribute the app outside of the Firefox Marketplace.
There's an implementation of DNS-SD for JavaScript at https://github.com/justindarc/dns-sd.js
For compatibility with other messaging apps, you might want to implement XMPP:
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html
Without support for Google Play Services and WiFi (similar to the 3G network support, through the host's network connection), the SDK's emulator is useless for Chromecast app development. I know we can use real hardware, but some things are simpler using the emulator, especially quickly testing changes on a wide range of devices.
We're about to start developing the iOS version, here's hoping the Apple emulator is better!
The main issue is with the mDNS discovery that is not supported on the emulator. We currently have no plans to work on that (this is copied from my comment, made it an answer and removed the old answer that was irrelevant).
Update: Cast discovery now is supported in the emulator.
I am writing a windows application (written entirely in C++) which reads files from a storage card on a mobile phone running Windows Mobile. The tough part is, I don't know how to make my application detect the event that a user has connected the mobile phone to the USB of laptop. I did some reading on MSDN and have written a small code using RegisterDeviceNotification, which detects whenever a USB disk is attached/removed from the laptop. However, I am unable to tweak this to make it work for phone type devices. Please help me out through any links/tutroials which explains this(preferrably C++, as I don't know .NET or C#).
Thanks
Alok
According to this article you can use RegisterDeviceNotification to get notifications when activesync detects a device has been plugged/unplugged. (See option 3 at the end of the article)
It may just be a matter of setting up the correct notification filter.
Windows Mobile devices use RNDIS, a network interface protocol behind the scenes. Hence, the RegisterDeviceNotification method still works, but you're looking for a DEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE, not DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME. (i.e. dbch_devicetype==DBT_DEVTYP_DEVICEINTERFACE)
You can use RAPI or RAPI2 to detect when a Windows Mobile device connects to a PC via Active Sync or Windows Mobile Device Center. RAPI can also be used to read the files on the storage card and much more.
RAPI is simpler to program because it is a C based API. RAPI2 has more functionality than RAPI, but is an object oriented COM API. If your needs are simple and you only care about one device/connection at a time then RAPI is good enough. There are two RAPI functions used to detect connections: CeRapiInit (blocking), and CeRapiInitEx (signals an event upon connection).