In the same way you would use a desktop computer to connect to your WebIO home/office server,
you can also use your Smartphone's web browser to access the features of WebIO
without installing software on your phone.
View the four minute video to the right for highlights of WebIO for mobile!
This mobile remote access can be useful for:
Remote or even local control of lighting
Remote select home or away thermostats
Remote reading of vacation home temperature
Turn on/off well pumps
Remote reboot/power cycle of computers and network equipment
Remote control of electronic door locks
WebIO web access on cell phones
WebIO built in web server, web pages for mobile devices
Some mobile devices such at the Apple iPhone, Palm 800w, HTC touch or HTC6800, have larger displays
able to zoom in on WebIO web pages or focus on selected web page frames.
Mobile phones with smaller displays and web browsers such as mobile Microsoft IE or Opera Mini
have the ability to reformat web pages into a convenient column format for
improved display and operation of the web page.
For example, the BlackBerry® Pearl phone to the right using the Opera Mini browser
is set to displays the WebIO server's web pages in column
format for impoved use.
WebIO Google Android App
WebIO Adroid App
A WebIO Google Android App for smartphones and tablets, new version 2.0 now available 1/3/2013.
The WebIO Android app allows for easy home control of your device network and reading of temperature sensor(s).
A future version of WebIO for Android will also provide monitoring of WebIO v4 wireless sensors.
The HTC 6800 smartphone to the right is running Windows Pocket PC 6.1
and uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser.
This version of IE (with Pocket PC 6.1) has the options to view web pages
as "one column" view (usefull for smaller displays) or "fit to screen" which
zooms out on the web page so you see the full page or "Desktop" view which
adds scroll bars to navigate larger web pages.
The first picture to the right shows the HTC 6800 using IE set to "fit to screen" mode
displaying a full WebIO web page containing three frames.
The second picture to the right shows a selected WebIO web page frame.
To select a web page frame on this phone with a touch screen, you hold the stylus
on the frame of choice to bring up browser options and select the "go to frame" option
from the list.
WebIO cell phone connectivity
WebIO cell phone communication architicture
When you use WebIO with a 3G(WCDMA or GSM) Smartphone,
the phone is first connected to a wireless carrier network with Internet access,
where a route is found to the WebIO using an assigned domain name or by just IP address.
The phone's connection is then passed through your Internet Broadband Modem
(cable modem or DSL) and connected to your Router where you need to forward a port
to the local IP address of your WebIO server.
When sending WebIO a command to turn a light on, WebIO sends your message by device
address over the AC powerline to the lamps powerline control module, which then turns
the lamp on.
