Beyonwiz Australia

hi,
quick question..

are any developers looking to Ubuntu, or other Linux platforms for their tools?? (such as Wizilla?)

regards,
Paul.

I've looked on www.openwiz.org/

I think that the only Beyonwiz tools that run on Linux are my getWizPnP, BWFWTools and rtv2kml, and Eric Fry's Wiz Firmware Tools. They're all command line tools. My contributions are written in perl and Eric's are in C. All have Makefiles for building and installing, and in the case of the perl tools, extracting documentation in pretty formats (formatted plain text and HTML) from the source code. Eric's code can be built in a Cygwin environment, and run in plain Windows with the help of /bin/cygwin1.dll (that's how it 's distributed). It can probably also be built using the GNU tools for Windows, but I've never tried that. It can probably be built with Micro$oft C and other non-free compilers, too. The Windows command shell is so execrable that I'd run Cygwin just to have bash

getWizPnP is the only Beyonwiz recording fetching program for Linux.

They're all available on the OpenWiz Software page. The page should probably be clearer about them being portable across Windows, Cygwin, OS X and Linux.

I wrote wizmongoose, a wizPNP server that compiles for cygwin and the Linksys NSLU2 (SLUG), is open source C, and certainly also compiled on my kubuntu setup (in vmware on my old XP machine). Typically most linux users would be clued up enough to take source and know what to do with it

tonymy01 wrote:I wrote wizmongoose, a wizPNP server that compiles for cygwin and the Linksys NSLU2 (SLUG), is open source C, and certainly also compiled on my kubuntu setup (in vmware on my old XP machine). Typically most linux users would be clued up enough to take source and know what to do with it

Ah yes. I forgot that one.

It might be good if there was a clearer indication of platform compatibility on the OpenWiz Software page (and perhaps some category headings).

I have been looking at prl's perl script and the WizPlayer code. From them, I am writing a Java Swing app( very dirty at this stage). I have got to the stage of discovering any Wiz devices and retrieving a list of recordings. I just need to download the recordings and covert into a format for playing. The development platform is on OpenSUSE Linux.

Well done, we need more devs, there is all sorts of things that could be done to enhance the wiz experience (e.g I am pretty sure we could put a "box in the middle" approach between wizPNP and DLNA to stream the Wiz to other non-wiz devices).

Any update
i i use ubuntu for my media server
is there a way to set ubuntu to poll each of the beyonwiz's (yes i have 2)
and recover the files and maybe rename/convert so they can be seen on pc/other media players

martymoose wrote:Any update
i i use ubuntu for my media server
is there a way to set ubuntu to poll each of the beyonwiz's (yes i have 2)
and recover the files and maybe rename/convert so they can be seen on pc/other media players

getWizPnP is the only WizPnP client that runs on Linux. It's command-line only, but reasonably powerful. You could set up getWizPnP in a cron job to do regular archives of your Beyonwizes. Even though it's not really designed for that, it will skip any copies where the recording has already been copied to the PC.

You can also enable Windows sharing on the Linux box (samba) and move Beyonwiz recordings to the shares where they can be seen by the Linux box and any other devices that can see the shares, but that would be manual.

I have a Java app that now discovers BeyonWiz devices on the network.

You can select the devices and request all available recordings on that device.

You can then transfer that recording to your local machine,

I have tried to download and play the file at the same time (using VLC) but download is not fast enough. VLC catches up and stops playing.


Probably due the way I coded it.

Now, where do I put the package for people to try out?.

isolbar wrote:...
Now, where do I put the package for people to try out?.

OpenWiz Software page. Source can go in the OpenWiz Redmine repository.

How do I get a new project on openwiz?

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