pas-john
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Will let you know exactly how we are doing it after we get the IP sortedAre you still using HTML5 / web app?
Why not just use websockets?? They are fairly well supported by mobile browsers now.
Will let you know exactly how we are doing it after we get the IP sortedAre you still using HTML5 / web app?
Why not just use websockets?? They are fairly well supported by mobile browsers now.
Thanks. Hopefully you can tell us more about it soon.We are still working hard at it we connected the tablet over wifi using HTML5 but found in field testing that the data transfer was too slow, we went back to the drawing board and with some academic assistance opened a specific data tunnel cant tell you how we did this as its subject to IP but we have excellent data transfer now to the tablet, will be beta testing in late March so will keep you informed.
Hi I should have this device launched sometime in the new year as you say the technology is there we are just working on the software to do the different functions needed one of these being a ISObus VT
A couple of years ago I had a go at making an app/ control system that could be used on a variety of implements, it worked and if it will let me I will upload a vid on this thread.Sleepy,
People making the apps, selling the aps or just the HTML need to make it financially viable!
Anyone can do it, but making a business out of it is very different !
A couple of years ago I had a go at making an app/ control system that could be used on a variety of implements, it worked and if it will let me I will upload a vid on this thread.
Most of the components were off the shelf and reasonably priced. The logic back then was as most have said here- apps could be easily updated over the existing market network, parts easily bought and replaced with pattern ones (tablet £100 from Maplin) ect.
The big problem I could foresee was exactly this, how to make it financially viable long term. There are a lot of people trying to do it But competing with the big boys in user support, development, knowledge (electrics, hydraulics, gps, data mapping, isobus, ect) is not easy. The user base is not big and the amount of different implements it would have to be able to retro fit to is massive (take a lot of time to get right for each one). I also felt although I would be obliged to help users and be on call 24-7 (we all know how annoying it is when a computer goes down and there's nothing you can do to fix it, in agriculture it could mean finishing the field before it rains) it would also result in certain clients ranting down the phone expecting someone to drive 1/2 way across the country at ridiculous times. And trying to guarantee electrical hardware in an agricultural environment on different equipment would be difficult so unfair on the end user.
Quite simply I didn't feel I would be able to do it justice and therein let people down. It really needs a couple of skilled people working together with low overheads and an agricultural view towards money.
I did debate free releasing it but then my laptop coped it and I lost the code.
I'm very tempted to have another go if there's still interest?? But it would only ever be as an enthusiast and I wouldn't like to guarantee support I couldn't give.
Sorry for the pessimism got into a bit of a rant there.
A couple of years ago I had a go at making an app/ control system that could be used on a variety of implements, it worked and if it will let me I will upload a vid on this thread.
Most of the components were off the shelf and reasonably priced. The logic back then was as most have said here- apps could be easily updated over the existing market network, parts easily bought and replaced with pattern ones (tablet £100 from Maplin) ect.
The big problem I could foresee was exactly this, how to make it financially viable long term. There are a lot of people trying to do it But competing with the big boys in user support, development, knowledge (electrics, hydraulics, gps, data mapping, isobus, ect) is not easy. The user base is not big and the amount of different implements it would have to be able to retro fit to is massive (take a lot of time to get right for each one). I also felt although I would be obliged to help users and be on call 24-7 (we all know how annoying it is when a computer goes down and there's nothing you can do to fix it, in agriculture it could mean finishing the field before it rains) it would also result in certain clients ranting down the phone expecting someone to drive 1/2 way across the country at ridiculous times. And trying to guarantee electrical hardware in an agricultural environment on different equipment would be difficult so unfair on the end user.
Quite simply I didn't feel I would be able to do it justice and therein let people down. It really needs a couple of skilled people working together with low overheads and an agricultural view towards money.
I did debate free releasing it but then my laptop coped it and I lost the code.
I'm very tempted to have another go if there's still interest?? But it would only ever be as an enthusiast and I wouldn't like to guarantee support I couldn't give.
Sorry for the pessimism got into a bit of a rant there.
A couple of years ago I had a go at making an app/ control system that could be used on a variety of implements, it worked and if it will let me I will upload a vid on this thread.
Most of the components were off the shelf and reasonably priced. The logic back then was as most have said here- apps could be easily updated over the existing market network, parts easily bought and replaced with pattern ones (tablet £100 from Maplin) ect.
The big problem I could foresee was exactly this, how to make it financially viable long term. There are a lot of people trying to do it But competing with the big boys in user support, development, knowledge (electrics, hydraulics, gps, data mapping, isobus, ect) is not easy. The user base is not big and the amount of different implements it would have to be able to retro fit to is massive (take a lot of time to get right for each one). I also felt although I would be obliged to help users and be on call 24-7 (we all know how annoying it is when a computer goes down and there's nothing you can do to fix it, in agriculture it could mean finishing the field before it rains) it would also result in certain clients ranting down the phone expecting someone to drive 1/2 way across the country at ridiculous times. And trying to guarantee electrical hardware in an agricultural environment on different equipment would be difficult so unfair on the end user.
Quite simply I didn't feel I would be able to do it justice and therein let people down. It really needs a couple of skilled people working together with low overheads and an agricultural view towards money.
I did debate free releasing it but then my laptop coped it and I lost the code.
I'm very tempted to have another go if there's still interest?? But it would only ever be as an enthusiast and I wouldn't like to guarantee support I couldn't give.
Sorry for the pessimism got into a bit of a rant there.
Cheers Andy although I've just seen Reed are now in charge hmmm.Post a video on YouTube and link it to here.
I think a web based system is better than apps, much faster to develop and will run on anything with a web browser.
This is a vid of what I developed working, albeit not completely. Tempted to have another crack at it if people would like to try it.
Sorry not used youtube before should work now."video is private" ??
Sorry not used youtube before should work now.
Hi I should have this device launched sometime in the new year as you say the technology is there we are just working on the software to do the different functions needed one of these being a ISObus VT