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Widgets in TV Set Top Box
I am developing a web application for an Amino A130H set top boxI saw in several places on the web that Opera 9 for Devices supports widgets.
However, I couldn't get the widgets from the widgets repository http://widgets.opera.comto run on the browser in the device (they do work on my desktop browser)
What I would like to know is what is the normal procedure for installing widgets on Opera for Devices browsers? Also, is what I am trying to do even possible?
I couldn't find anything on this after hours of Googling, only a lot of references that Opera for Devices 9 supported widgets. I did download the SDK, but short of compressing the examples in it to zip, changing the extension to wgt and installing in my desktop browser I had no luck.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
Originally posted by nowotny:
As far as I could gather from 10 minutes of googling is that early boxes of Amino A130H came with Opera 8.5 which does not support widgets... do you know what version of Opera is installed in your box...? I think there are also firmware updates with newer versions of Opera available but you'd have to dig around on Amino's support site...
Thanks so much for replying
The firmware is 0.18.0-Ax3x-opera9 (build date 25 jan 2011). It did not come by default, I flashed the firmware on to the box myself.
Do you know how I would potentially be able to install a widget on to this browser?
31. May 2011, 06:41:39 (edited)
BTW, Amino boxes have support for what they call JMACX which frankly looks like widgets... It's a mix of html, javascript and css files that allows making applications for Amino... maybe instead of a widget you could implement what you want in that... You can find more information on it and how to install such software on their support page: http://www.aminocom.com/what-we-offer/support#load-software (take a look particularly at the FAQ section there)
Originally posted by nowotny:
Well... the usual way is to go to the widgets.opera.com on a device you're trying to install widgets to... The site should then autodetect the version of Opera and the device and offer you widgets that are compatible... can you install ANY widgets from the catalogue...?
BTW, Amino boxes have support for what they call JMACX which frankly looks like widgets... It's a mix of html, javascript and css files that allows making applications for Amino... maybe instead of a widget you could implement what you want in that... You can find more information on it and how to install such software on their support page: http://www.aminocom.com/what-we-offer/support#load-software (take a look particularly at the FAQ section there)
Thanks again
No, I can't get any of the widgets to install. When I click the install button the browser says that downloading of files is not permitted.
I have used the JMACX extensions for some parts of my application. They allow controlling of the set top box using javascript, but what I would like to do is implement functionality in a snap without development (ex - installing a weather widget would be far easier than writing one from scratch)