PROJECT: NEW HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ISSUES
Posted April 20, 2008 at 5:09 pm
So first things first, I’ve got a new phone; an O2 Xda Orbit 2 to be exact. The best part of this is everything is built in, so none of this external GPS receiver business anymore which is brilliant. Apart from that, its much faster than the Xda I was borrowing from Adam and has a lot more memory. Marvellous!
Secondly, software issues! At the moment I’m having a problem solving the whole issue of taking photos and getting them online so as to allow my project access to them along with gps data. So far I’ve found a piece of software called TimedSpy which will allow me to automatically take a photo every set interval and save it to the phone memory. The only problem being I can only use a Symbian based phone, which means using my old Nokia 6600, not what I want!
Not happy with this I decided to hunt for a similar piece of software that is Windows Mobile based. The nearest bit of software that I could find was called Pocket Camera but was developed for a smartphone. Un surprisingly it didn’t work. That got me thinking and after a looking into developing my own application for the platform I found an entry in the Windows Mobile Version 5.0 SDK for the camera API. After downloading it and borrowing a copy of Visual Studio as well as finding a very helpful video by a guy called Rory Blyth I found that I couldn’t control the taking of photos within the program. Instead the user would always be presented with a dialog in order to take the photo. I tired looking for ways around it but could find nothing.
This leaves me using the TimedSpy application. To upload the photos to the server I found a nifty bit of software called ShoZu. This allowed me to create my own site within my profile online that my phone can access. For this I just setup the connection with my FTP details to my web server which will allow me to upload directly, which is very handy! Luckily this also works on Symbian based phones too but this leaves me with a 2 phone setup and only I contract with an unlimited data plan, whoops! Will have to beg Adam to see if I can borrow his Sim.
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