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Title: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: phonetic on December 02, 2011, 08:56:35 PM
I managed to connect my classic 150 to my 3G wirless router at my weekender, I can use the local midnite status panel, using dyndns, all works fantastic.
couple of questions..how much data is used by the monitoring app ? will there be a web access app for when im at work our cororate firewall dont allow apps and use of ports, allowed http and port 80 only?
Regards
Frank
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Halfcrazy on January 10, 2012, 03:20:30 PM
Frank
My MidNite will be a web based app and should not require any ports to be opened on the computer side of things. You would be able to just log on to a website like you would this forum. I understand that is real close but I will ask Andrew to jump in and give us a status report.

I will also ask Andrew about the amount of data the App uses.

Ryan
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Halfcrazy on January 10, 2012, 04:46:45 PM
Ok chatted with Andrew. There is no official release date on My MidNite Andrew is eyeball deap in a few projects. The Local app if connected to the Classic 24/7 for a month should use about 663MB of data. This is being trimmed as Andrew finds ways to trim it and there will likely be a "Low Data" check box in the future for people on limited data plans.

Ryan
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: sbudd on January 13, 2012, 12:34:24 PM
On launch day, there likely will be a few hundred of us go online...well the first few days..<g>

You guys are going in the right direction.

thanks

steve
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: laszlo on January 14, 2012, 01:29:44 AM
I counted  6 files per day, each 330K in size for the local app.  This is not in the ballpark with the 663Megs that Halfcrazy  is posting.  So my local app is using about 40Mb per month for the data.


Quote from: Halfcrazy on January 10, 2012, 04:46:45 PM
Ok chatted with Andrew. There is no official release date on My MidNite Andrew is eyeball deap in a few projects. The Local app if connected to the Classic 24/7 for a month should use about 663MB of data. This is being trimmed as Andrew finds ways to trim it and there will likely be a "Low Data" check box in the future for people on limited data plans.

Ryan
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Halfcrazy on January 14, 2012, 08:46:04 AM
Well the way the local app should work is if it is connected 24-7 to the Classic is it polls once every 2 seconds so the amount of data that it transmits every 2 seconds would then be multiplied by 30 for a minutes worth than 60 for an hours worth so on for the month.

Ryan
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: laszlo on January 17, 2012, 01:42:30 AM
This begs the question -- what is the amount of data that is getting logged evert two seconds? Can you ask Andrew? Thx!


Quote from: Halfcrazy on January 14, 2012, 08:46:04 AM
Well the way the local app should work is if it is connected 24-7 to the Classic is it polls once every 2 seconds so the amount of data that it transmits every 2 seconds would then be multiplied by 30 for a minutes worth than 60 for an hours worth so on for the month.

Ryan
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Tinman on January 26, 2012, 09:34:12 PM
Quote from: laszlo on January 14, 2012, 01:29:44 AM
I counted  6 files per day, each 330K in size for the local app.  This is not in the ballpark with the 663Megs that Halfcrazy  is posting.  So my local app is using about 40Mb per month for the data.


Quote from: Halfcrazy on January 10, 2012, 04:46:45 PM
Ok chatted with Andrew. There is no official release date on My MidNite Andrew is eyeball deap in a few projects. The Local app if connected to the Classic 24/7 for a month should use about 663MB of data. This is being trimmed as Andrew finds ways to trim it and there will likely be a "Low Data" check box in the future for people on limited data plans.

Ryan

Better check to make sure your local app is actually connected all day. Since day one, my local app hasn't managed to stay connected for more than an hour or so without freezing.  I too was under the impression that the logs were very large but since I've yet to have the local app run all day without freezing up there is no way I can measure how much data is actually being stored.

Since more than a month I haven't even bothered with the local app :-X
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Halfcrazy on January 27, 2012, 06:12:30 AM
Tinman

Does restarting the App reconnect it or do you have to reboot the Classic? I am running the latest Firmware here and the newest Local App and I have had 4 Classics logging for 2 months since your problem popped up. I am unable to re create it now. In the beginning I had 2 Classics that needed a frequent re boot but Andrew has fixed that it seems.

I am not the best at networking etc but if you give me an exact (as detailed as possible) description of how the Classic is connected to the PC I will obtain the stuff and recreate your install. I will also need the Firmware dates for the Classic and MNGP as well as the version of the Local App you are running.

Ryan

PS I am going to start a new thread on this subject and ask anyone with similar issues to post as much info as possible on there setup in that thread.
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: MikeJ on August 03, 2012, 06:32:26 AM
Anybody know when the online monitoring is going to be up..When I go to signup it say it is bata still ?

Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: MikeJ on August 06, 2012, 03:39:59 PM
This is the error I get

"The values you have entered are not a valid MAC/Device ID combination
Please note that we are in BETA so at the moment only approved BETA testers will be able to register.
Thanks for your patience!"

Any help ??
Mike
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Halfcrazy on August 06, 2012, 04:53:13 PM
Yeah Andrew is still feverishly working behind the scenes to get My MidNite going. He had been focusing a lot on the Local App which runs on the PC. Hopefully he will chime in here with an update.

Ryan
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: MikeJ on August 06, 2012, 05:30:43 PM
Thank you for the update.
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: crunnells on October 04, 2012, 05:48:01 PM
Any chance of pushing My Midnight to be open source so that other devs (such as myself) in the community can contribute to the project? It might speed things up a little bit :)

-Chris
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: boB on October 04, 2012, 10:07:35 PM
Quote from: crunnells on October 04, 2012, 05:48:01 PM
Any chance of pushing My Midnight to be open source so that other devs (such as myself) in the community can contribute to the project? It might speed things up a little bit :)

-Chris


Hi Chris...

The problem with making My Midnite itself open is that it is already pricey to have there already just for Classics.
Now, there are some other open servers for this kind of stuff that you and others (and us) might be interested
in...  For instance,  pvoutput.org    (Check out    http://pvoutput.org/outputs.jsp  )

and also  https://cosm.com/  (https://cosm.com/feeds/75889)  like Stephendv uses...

boB
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: crunnells on October 04, 2012, 11:34:44 PM
QuoteThe problem with making My Midnite itself open is that it is already pricey to have there already just for Classics.

Pricey in what way? Do you meant the development time that's gone into building the beta?

Anyway, thanks for the links. That's kinda what I had in mind... I may still end up seeing what I can build to log my controller data on my local web server, just for kicks. I really just want to be able to see the logged information without having to physically check the controller, or having to leave the local app open all the time.
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: boB on October 05, 2012, 03:35:55 AM
Quote from: crunnells on October 04, 2012, 11:34:44 PM
QuoteThe problem with making My Midnite itself open is that it is already pricey to have there already just for Classics.

Pricey in what way? Do you meant the development time that's gone into building the beta?


Hi Chris...   I meant that the server itself is kind of pricey.

I think that the rest of the software may very well be open source though.
I will let Andrew reply to that though.  I'm mainly an embedded processor engineer
when it comes to programming.

In fact, most of my web/html programming is still done by using a simple text editor.

boB
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Vern Faulkner on October 22, 2012, 07:15:18 PM
Hey there, tried to log onto mymidnite.com, but the message said that only beta testers were accepted: no mention of that in the manual.

'Sup?
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: chesuncook1 on October 28, 2012, 05:12:16 AM
Hi Guys,
Just wondering if you have a better idea of when the web based remote access for the Classic will be done? I know Andrew is buried and I appreciate all the hard work. Just excited to use/try it as I have Hughesnet at camp and they don't allow me to use dyndns as the router cannot see the WAN IP address.

Ryan, my camp is in Chesuncook village, I see your are in Maine somewhere. How far away are you?

Thanks
Scott
Title: Re: My Midnite..when will it go live?
Post by: Halfcrazy on October 28, 2012, 09:54:36 AM
I am about 1.5 hours North West of you. Just outside Newport.

Andrew is making great strides on My MidNite. He decided to dump Adobe Air and go for a web page based version so it will work on anything practically. Also another thing he is doing is working on putting the Local App on the device as a web page as well. This will be nicer in the long run but has caused a bit of extra delay. The way Adobe is changind daily we felt it worth the extra time.

Ryan