Announcing the HAVA Player Mac SDK

[Daleeburg]

It's in limited distribution at this time.

Great news! Or maybe we should ask, "How limited?"

I think the answer is "not very limited at all" since Gary sent me the SDK. Not a peep out of all those Mac developers who were hounding Monsoon for this, though. What happened to those guys or gals?

Some of us are still waiting for the SDK.

[Jason UK]

Some of us have only just received it recently. It is not simply a case clicking your fingers and making one appear.

[TheKrell]

Some of us have only just received it recently.

Hooray! I think you were the skeptical one who kept coming back once/month to see if any movement could be detected. I was afraid you (and others) would lose patience before this SDK ever showed up.

I took a quick look and thought I read that this SDK was only good for the remote stream. Is that your understanding too?

[deanjp1]

WHY is this in the windows mobile forum, make a new forum.

FIX my LANDSCAPE!

[danny]

Im a new Hava user and am really enjoying the experience of having my TV travel with me everywhere I go.

Like some other users here though, I am running Hava on a windows partition on my Macbook pro. It runs fine but takes a little time to open and set up. I would be much happier if i could open and run Hava directly on my Mac.

Any update as to when we will be able to have our Hava players running on OS 10 ?

[Daleeburg]

Just an update, I received the SDK about an hour ago.

[castilloj]

I would like to be able to run Hava on My mac also. is there any way i can beta the software?
Thanks

[Daleeburg]

I would like to be able to run Hava on My mac also. is there any way i can beta the software?
Thanks

The SDK is not actually a beta of the software, it is just a tool kit that can be used by programmers to create software that can communicate with the HAVA.

If you are not a programmer then your best best is going to be to stick around and watch for programmers to post their betas of the program.

Right now I am a little tied up, but if anybody needs some hosting space for their programs, please pm me and I can host it. Also I am hoping to get a beta of a very simple program (wont have all of the features of the current HAVA player) out before the end of the month, but that really depends on my RL.

[castilloj]

thanks for your quick reply. i appreciate it.

well for anyone that has any Betas, im willing to test.
Thanks

[JasonMeudt]

Well... For those of you who DID receive the SDK, a simple 'channel change' example would be great!

Remote/Local viewing issues notwithstanding, the HAVA can only view 1 stream at a time... so... sending a channel change would be the same in either mode.

-Jason

[pauldy]

I just got my hardware last night and after fighting with the windows installer all night I threw in the towel. The gdi/d3d hacks for the display don't work right in the virtual machine I was using leaving me wondering if the input selected was correct if any of the changes I was making had any impact etc... This morning I got most of it working before I left for work so maybe I will get a chance to try and make some functional code when I get home. Those that are waiting it's coming but it may still be a ways out it is in the hands of the community now to get it together.

[Jason UK]

Some of us have only just received it recently.

Hooray! I think you were the skeptical one who kept coming back once/month to see if any movement could be detected. I was afraid you (and others) would lose patience before this SDK ever showed up.

I took a quick look and thought I read that this SDK was only good for the remote stream. Is that your understanding too?

I never lost patience. I am just away now on business for a couple of months (unable to use the HAVA I might add) and so I am not bothering with it for now. I was hopeful of something before I left the UK but it came so late in the day it was no good for me.

I will check out the SDK when back in the UK. A quick glance I had showed me though it was nowhere near enough really.

Just make the entire thing Open Source already and give us at least a fighting chance. Why we, the customer, is having to do the job of the people receiving the money is a joke.

I am beginning to think a standlone digital media recorder is going to offer the best solution in all honesty.

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Enterta ... A9150.aspx

That one is only a receiver but a bit of research and a recorder is not going to be too difficult to come across.

The money you spend on such a device is far less than the time you will spend ever waiting for HAVA or Slingbox to work properly. A bit of research and maybe you will find many other devices willing to do this job.

Either way, not something for me to concern myself with for now. I will be back in the UK as and when. Then I will really look into this more.

[TheKrell]

A quick glance I had showed me though it was nowhere near enough really.

Nowhere near enough for what? It won't play a remote stream on a Mac at all? Won't record? Won't change channels?

I am beginning to think a standlone digital media recorder is going to offer the best solution in all honesty.

You mean like a Hava Titanium HD with external USB disk?

[ellisblack]

I have been trying to get my Hava platinum running for 2 weeks now, i have only gotten the computer to recognize the hava once, but that effort also ended in failure. Now i can not get the setup wizard to find the hava player, using widows 7 as a virtual machine on my imac, there is no excuse for not having a mac client my now!

please do any mac users have any success using a virtual machine to run hava? please help!

[TheTechGuy]

Dear Customer,


vMware/Parallels/Boot Camp are not officially supported Platforms.
Still, you may go to the Virtual Machine Setup and Choose the Bridge Mode. It may work.



Regards,
HAVA Tech Support.