Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Android phone plays well with MythTV!

Have it working as a video client for my MythTV machine.
Needed to enable the UPnP setup on MythTV and installed two Android apps:

UPnPlay and MoboPlayer.

MoboPlayer was required for my phone, since the default video player did not support the MythTV video format. I got an initial error message about unsupported video format, and checked the very useful help file on UPnPlay.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Android Phone Week One

A car door ate our 'dumb phone' (crunch)
so now had the excuse to get a new one.
On that phone, we have a prepaid service here in Canada, so went out and picked up one of the most basic android phones:
So writing a few notes on this different technology.
Phone:
LG Optimus One with Google
Have turned off the carrier data access; use it as a voice phone + WiFi
Notes so far:

screen is a bit small, so I feel I have fat fingers ;)
Location based apps do not like having carrier data turned off;
Angry Birds is just playable ;)
Google Goggles is not that useful :(