Beta Labs applications

Mobile Web Server Extensions

Nokia Mobile Web Server extensions
  • Should work great in target devices

Overview
Nokia Mobile Web Server Extensions are applications that utilize Nokia Mobile Web Server technology.

My Mobile Site Widgets
My Mobile Site Widgets is a set of widgets visible on your PC (Windows or Mac). With these widgets you can view the contents of your mobile phone and initiate certain operations like SMS sending or call initiation over a secure HTTPS channel. The widgets run on the Yahoo! Widgets engine installed on your PC and the Python scripts which run under Nokia Mobile Web Server provide the functionality on the mobile device. The widgets poll the phone regularly to update information. Users can set the update interval by accessing the widgets preferences window, which is available from the right click menu.

Developers: learn more from the Nokia Mobile Web Server wiki and learn to develop your own My Mobile Site widgets at Desktop widgets wiki.

New features and changes in 1.1:
  • Single Login, UI allignements, Windows installer for widgets, JSON-RPC between phone and PC
  • Enhanced access rights handling
  • New Calendar widget with Free/busy information
  • SMS widget: New SMS information, delete SMS, drag and drop support
  • Picture widget: Save, Rotate, Send image as MMS
  • Small fixes in Call widget


Getting started

  • Compatibility and system requirements
  • Tested with: Nokia N80, N93, N95.

    Should work with: S60 3rd Edition devices.

    Mobile Web Server 1.2 beta needs to be installed.

    System requirements: Windows XP SP2, 2000 SP4, Microsoft Windows Vista, or Mac OSX 10.3.9 and up.

    Yahoo! recommends:
    • Internet connection
    • 512 megabytes of RAM
    • Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 includes Adobe® Flash® 9
  • Download
  • Phone:

    1. Download the Mobile Web Server software and sign up for a domain name for your mobile here.
    2. Install MyMobileSite_widgets.sis (.SIS, 34 KB) to the same location (Phone or Memory Card) as Mobile Web Server
    3. Ensure that you have started your mobile web server (Options | Start server) and login with your mymobilesite.net user name and password.
    4. We recommend setting the Access point to fixed value in the Mobile Web Server Settings.
    5. To add access rights to your free/busy information from the widgets of other users select Users and add new user or activate the guest account. Guest account activation goes in the following way: Click on the Guest Account in the user list and then click activate and set the username and password. To add new user select Users and click Options | Add new user. The battery, signal and the free/busy information is visible to all widgets which log in with any of these usernames and passwords. (All other informations are visible only with user accounts in the admin group.)

    PC with MS Windows:

    1. Download and install Yahoo! Widget Engine from here.
    2. Run MyMobileSite_widgets_setup_1_1.exe (.EXE, 1.31 MB) to install the widgets
    3. Select any .widget file From the Windows Start | All Programs | My Mobile Site widgets menu.

    Macintosh:

    1. Download and install Yahoo! Widget Engine from here.
    2. Extract the widgets (.ZIP, 1,2 MB) to My Widgets folder or any folder you like. (If Consolidate Widgets is set in Yahoo! Widget Engine preferences, then the engine automatically moves the widget files to My Widgets folder during the first start.)
    3. Double click any .widget file to start the application

  • Installation instructions
  • Setup of widgets:

    For each widget:
    Type your Mobile Web Server account name and password into the Login window and click the Login button. In My Mobile Site Phone Picture Frame widget, enter the Server address and account information in the preferences dialog.

    Each widget starts uploading the information from the phone at startup. It is also possible to start the upload manually by selecting the “Refresh” command in the right-click menu.

    Widgets in the 1.1 version support single login (Only on MS Windows):
    It is enough to start one widget and do the login process. All other widgets started after a successful login will use the same username and password.
  • List of available widgets
  • Battery widget:
    Mobile battery status indicator.

    Signal widget:
    Signal strength indicator.

    SMS widget:
    SMS widget allows you to read, answer and delete your messages from your desktop. The widget updates also the contact list regularly. If your eyes are tired then try out the text to speech feature (works only for SMS messages in English).

    Phone Picture Frame widget:
    See the Image Gallery of your phone on your desktop and send images via MMS from the widget.

    Call widget:
    Instruct phone to call a number by Drag & drop any phone number on the Call widget. The contact book of the mobile is also uploaded to the widget or you can type in any phone number you like. Note that during a call the data connection between phone and PC is on hold except in case of 3G connection.

    Calendar widget:
    See your calendar entries in month or day view. Create new entries or modify/delete existing ones. See the Free/Busy information of other users.
  • Known issues
  • Picture Frame:
    • Save image - widget does not provide original filename in the save dialog
    • Send as MMS: Needs two additional clicks on certain phones to close active connections, Failed to send MMS error on the phone (The MMS is in the Outbox. Resending from the outbox usually works.)


    SMS widget:
    • Widget does not set the read unread label of the message
    • Only the phone number is visible in the Messaging Sent items list for the SMSs sent by the widget