Restructuring – 010dev is moving

In order to make it easier to provide support to my customers I decided it’s best to separate all things related to the 010dev brand from my personal stuff.

Starting today, 010dev is getting a new blog all for itself. All future announcements, workarounds and anything else related to the brand will be posted there.

http://blog.010dev.com

In addition, the same goes for my twitter account @010dev which I will leave to announcing news and providing support while moving all the jibber jabber to my private account @ka010 be sure to give me a follow.

ReemoteHD not connecting…

If you recently purchased ReemoteHD and initially ran into issues like Reemote not being able to connect at all, here’s the workaround you’ve been waiting for… in addition, a “real fix” will ship in form of an update in the coming days as well.

I apologize for any inconveniences.

Reemote for Airfoil – latest Releases and Improvements

If you recently pushed the update all button in iTunes, you might have noticed that there have been a bunch of updates for all versions of Reemote for Airfoil lately, here’s whats new.

New Icons, yay !

I finally found the time for an already overdue redesign of the Reemote icons, so here they are, I hope you like em

Reemote for Airfoil 1.2.3 / Reemote HD 1.1.1 released

In case you’ve had troubles with Reemote not being able to connect or not finding a server as described here, you’ll be happy to hear that updates for both of the Reemote for Airfoil Apps are now shipping, including the option to manually configure the server address, which should work as a viable workaround if auto discovery fails.

MWKit – a Cocoa framework for talking to the MetaWatch

As said before, I’ve been putting together a little framework to talk to the MetaWatch.

Well, here it is, as promised, it works on both, Mac OSX and iOS (jailbroken)

MetaWatch Hacking: iOS Support

I’m putting together a Cocoa framework that’s going to work on both, iOS (jailbroken, using btstack) and Mac OSX (using IOBluetooth or TTY directly)

Here’s a video showing an iOS demo App.

code coming soon. see MWKit for more info, source-code and repository.

Metawatch Hacking: First Prototypes

What’s a MetaWatch ?

Well, it’s a watch obviously, kind of a smart watch but not actually that smart, basically it’s a remote display for other devices to write to, connections are made via Bluetooth using SPP (a serial port protocol).

Still, leaving it rather dumb was a smart move, so I don’t really know what to call it, it’s pretty cool that’s for sure

Anyhow, after few delays, my MetaWatch (which I had originally pre-ordered back in May) finally shipped and I had almost a week now to play with it, here’s what I came up with so far.

About Reemote for Airfoil not being able to connect

First of all, I’d like to apologize for the delay in communicating this but if you read on, you’ll see why it took so long.

Now, I have received a number of reports from users who have trouble getting their Reemote to connect to the Reemote server even though everything was setup correctly and the Mac OSX firewall and/or it’s stealth-mode option had been turned off, as described here.

Of course I immediately started investigating the issue, however, countless hours of debugging as well as rewriting most of my network code so far did not reveal anything at all. Instead it seems like the issue is somehow related to the Wifi network the App is operating on. More precisely it is WPA2 encryption that seems to be causing problems with these kind of Applications on iOS in general. 

Reemote for Airfoil crashing ? No more !

If you have been experiencing crashes with the latest Reemote for Airfoil or Reemote HD, there probably is an easy way to fix this.

As a customer just discovered, Reemote is crashing if Airfoil is configured not to allow remote speakers to connect back to Airfoil.

How to fix ?

Regarding Reemote Server & Mac OSX Firewall

There have been a few reports of Reemote taking forever to find the server and even then not operating properly.

As it turns out, this issue seems to be related to the Mac OSX firewall or more precisely it’s Stealth Mode option.