[mythtv-users] MyMote, iTouch, and OS 3.0

[David Meixner]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Christopher Meredith <chmeredith at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <pfine at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> ----- "Chase Douglas" <chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: "Chase Douglas" <chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com>
>> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:49:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyMote, iTouch, and OS 3.0
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:08 AM, < pfine at comcast.net > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > After seeing this recent thread (
>> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387067#387067 ), I
>> > wanted to try it out MyMote with my wife's iTouch. The MyMote app
>> > would not sync with the iTouch. The error said that the app required
>> > the iTouch have the OS 3.0 update, and I have not purchased the update
>> > for my wife's iTouch yet.
>> >
>> > Is the update a requirement for MyMote? Does it sound like I did
>> > something wrong?
>> >
>> >
>> > Essentially, I used some of the iPhone OS 3.0 mechanisms to clean up
>> > some of the MyMote code. I also had to fix MyMote for OS 3.0 anyways,
>> > since it was broken on the new OS. Unfortunately, any app developed
>> > against iPhone OS 3.0 will not run under any previous version of the
>> > OS.
>> >
>> >
>> > If you want an official MyMote from the App Store, you'll need to be
>> > running OS 3.0. There are some workarounds, however. You could
>> > jailbreak your iPod and manually install an older version of MyMote.
>> > As an alternative, if you really don't want to upgrade and you don't
>> > want to jailbreak your iPod, I could manually provision an older
>> > version of MyMote for you. In either case, please send a request to
>> > mymote.support at gmail.com .
>> >
>> >
>> > Note: I can only provision up to 100 devices, and every provision
>> > takes an annoying amount of steps to deal with, so I would prefer not
>> > to go that route. I understand the plight of those on OS 2.x, however,
>> > and I am willing to help out any user to get MyMote up and running on
>> > their iPod/iPhone.
>> > _______________________________________________
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply, Chase.  I wanted to make sure that I wasn't
>> screwing something up before I blindly went forward and updated the iTouch.
>>  Now that I understand what is happening, I will update to OS 3.0 and then
>> should be able use the official version.
>>
>> It looks like a nice piece of work and I look forward to using it.
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>
> With all due respect to MyMote and its developer, I never could get it to
> work. RRGH is another option and it works great for me on OS 2.21 on an
> iTouce 1G.  I have no intention of upgrading to 3.0 since it really doesn't
> add anything for the 1G.
>

I had just the opposite problem.  I could never get RRGH to work, but MyMote
works great for me. (running OS 2.2.1)
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