Jaadu VNC
30 July 2009, 07:04 by Chad Reynoldson
I had recently heard of the Jaadu VNC viewer app for the iPhone/iTouch and I wanted to give it a try. It is an iPhone application that provides a VNC client, allowing you to view the screen of an AMX touch panel directly on your iPhone. It was designed with “AMX Touch Interface” in mind using AMX G4 Web Control.
Adding an entry to a touch panel is very simple. First, select “Manual” on the bottom. Next, click “+” on the top. Next, enter the entries name, ip address (stick with port 5900), security password (if any), and select “AMX Touch Interface” as the computer type. Finally click “save server” and your done, with a new entry on the manual connection list.
I tried it with both a 4×3 and 16×9 touch panel. With both panels, it turned the view 90 degrees into landscape view. With the 4×3 panel, the image was centered on the screen with black bars on either side (no scaling). With the 16×9 panel, the image was centered and filled most of the screen. I’ll be curious to see how AMX’s new NXV-300 will work, specifically at the 480×272 resolution.
The viewer also has built-in keyboard control that will also generate keyboard presses on native AMX keyboard and keypad popups (AKB and AKP). The keyboard popups on the screen were pretty small to get an accurate touch, so it was good to see that work. The only keyboard exception is that I could not get capital letters (ABC) to work. All other keys worked fine.
I’d say that for the small price ($24.99), it is a steal and fits a need. Plus there’s no additional netlinx programming required.
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