HAI Snap-Link, WL3 - Windows Phone 7

Chassmain

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What is everyone's preferred mobile platform to access the HAI OmniPro II? I've seen videos of HAI's Snap-Link interface on iPhones and Android phones, but with the pending release of Windows Phone 7 I keep finding my mind drifting towards this new phone OS and wondering how it might integrate with my HAI.

Call me a Microsoft fan boy if you want, but I think this thing looks pretty sweet and I see all kinds of symmetries getting it to play nicely with my quad tuner Windows Media Center / Xbox360 extender set up. Seems like Everything is there for a very clean remote interface to WMC.

How does control of the HAI system through a web browser compared to the Snap-link apps? I'm thinking about going after this new phone and dealing with the lack of applications until it takes over the world.
 
What is everyone's preferred mobile platform to access the HAI OmniPro II? I've seen videos of HAI's Snap-Link interface on iPhones and Android phones, but with the pending release of Windows Phone 7 I keep finding my mind drifting towards this new phone OS and wondering how it might integrate with my HAI.

Call me a Microsoft fan boy if you want, but I think this thing looks pretty sweet and I see all kinds of symmetries getting it to play nicely with my quad tuner Windows Media Center / Xbox360 extender set up. Seems like Everything is there for a very clean remote interface to WMC.

How does control of the HAI system through a web browser compared to the Snap-link apps? I'm thinking about going after this new phone and dealing with the lack of applications until it takes over the world.

Another option is some of the new pad computers like the HP Slate 500 which runs Windows 7. You could use OmnitouchPro with this computer pad and run all your other applications.
 
Another option is some of the new pad computers like the HP Slate 500 which runs Windows 7. You could use OmnitouchPro with this computer pad and run all your other applications.

Absolutely, and I definitely plan to augment whatever portable HMI I'm using with something of the sort. Only thing, I want one device attached to me at all times that I can do it all. A cell phone is the obvious choice.

After posting I started browsing around the net for a Windows Phone 7 application that would work with Windows Media Center. Check out this app in development. It looks so cool and definitely touts all the capabilities of a very clean interface between yourself and WMC.

A First Look at Meteor - Windows Phone 7 WMC Control/Integration
 
For the HAI I like the new iphone app because it is fast and communicates directly to the HAI. I do run wl3, wl2 for demo puropses, and they work find but require a pc to be running and are a bit slower. I have also had more issues of getting locked out etc. Idealy some custome soultion that renders web pages they way you want and communicates directly to the HAI is the best solution but it is not there yet. For now you can't go wrong with wl3 or wl3 it will render a page on any device.
 
Windows Phone 7 currently has no support for TCP/IP socket programming, only HTTP requests. Because of this a Snap-Link like app wont be possible that directly connects to the Omni, it will have to go through another device that speaks HTTP and can proxy to the Omni.

Supposedly they will add socket support in a later release, it is a rather large omission.

WL3 is probably the easiest solution right now, but the session management/login mechanism is annoying, where if you leave the web page without hitting logout, you can be locked out for 15 minutes, or whatever the asp session timeout is in IIS.
 
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