[NCLUG] URLs from Harmony/congruity talk last night

[dann frazier]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:47:10PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> dann frazier wrote:
> > Anyway - I reviewed these projects which appear to let me load an
> > image onto the remote. But is there a way to tweak the settings from
> > linux?
> 
> Certainly not at present. There have been a couple of people interested
> in investigating this, but nothing has come out of that yet. It's not
> the aim of concordance/congruity (their aim is to support the existing
> flow, just on Linux)
> 
> > It seems that the web interface is now deprecated and creating
> > the image requires win/osx (though, it looks like it maybe just a
> > local (XUL?) app that's communicating with an external service?)
> 
> The web-site still works fine (just ignore the text on the first page
> that tells you that you need a SW upgrade, and continue to use the website).

Oh thank $deity - that means i can stop messing w/ the gf's mac. The
Harmony SW, at least on that system, has a really annoying bug where
buttons start failing to do anything. Nothing like spending 10 minutes
setting something up only to not be able to save it.

> As far as I can tell, the official Harmony software is just an IE web
> browser embedded into a custom window that traps the downloads that the
> website sends and automatically handles them internally to the app,
> rather than spawning a separate executable. Oh, and the Harmony SW has a
> custom front page that hides the main web page, even though all the
> other pages are identical to the website. The old Harmony SW worked
> exactly the same way that concordance/congruity do.
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dann frazier