Smartphone App?

[hooverdangle]

How cool and absolutely useful would it be to have someone code a smartphone app? With of course permission/help from the buddy team, you could simply log on to some sort of modified version of the buddyauth servers, you could choose which session you want to observe, and it would bring up a somewhat real-time log of the currently running session. Not only would it be good to know whether the session is currently operational, you could also check your GPH, how many runs you have done, how long it has been active, etc.

Does anyone think this is possible or are there too many limitations?

 

[keatanb]

was thinking of doing something like this, and it wouldnt involve the buddyauth servers at all as they dont store logs or anything at their end. you could run a webserver(on the pc you are running the bots on)+plugin combo - set up the plugin to log tagged information to a file that the webapp makes available via webservice to the mobile app. limitation would be that you would have to make the webserver running on your box externally available (either static ip or dynamic dns) unless of course you just wanted to access the information from within a local network. biggest challenge would be making the setup user friendly.

 

[Diktat]

Do you think this would be possible? It would be extremely useful!

 

[keatanb]

sure its possible. might do up a quick irc plugin today as a start and work from there.

 

[hooverdangle]

I will fund anyone that starts making an app for iphone/smartphone.

 

[Dgc2002]

I do this for bots i run on RuneScape Classic. Every X minutes it takes a picture of the screen and updates a MySQL database containing its stats/inventory. Using html/CSS/JavaScript/PHP it even lets me click on the inventory/stats screen and pop up an interface I designed to mimic the in-game menus to display the inventory/stats menu. Its absolutely dooable with a Plug-In.

 

[slip99]

use teamviewer, done.

 

[Algamish]

This can be done with a plugin but would require a lot of work and it's own login/authentication server.

You don't need access to Buddy servers for this.

 

[Liferose]

This has been done with plugins for Honorbuddy. An app would require funding and such, but a mobile web version has already been done.

 

[unit420]

use teamviewer, done.

^this. I did this for the longest time for Honorbuddy. Although it lagged, it still got the point through and allowed me to check on my bots and turn them on / off if neccesary.

 

[Guga]

It doesnt really have any limitations, its not really that hard either, it wouldnt even have to be an Iphone app, but rather just a website, which is much cheaper and easier to make,
heres what iv got in about 10 minutes of work:
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Shows my current gold.
I could add pretty much anything, from restarting the bot, stopping, tracking its location, gph, whatever..