TBA Mobile Launched!

[Greg Marra]

One of the things I have personally wanted for a while was a way to look up match listings and team information easily during events. A laptop is kind of a clunky solution, and viewing full size pages on my phone is awful.

You can look up past events, find teams' records, and even see photos of their robots on your mobile phone. If your phone supports video playback, you can download previous videos too! (This looks absolutely gorgeous on iPhones with wifi connections).

Hopefully people are able to make use of this to do in-the-stands scouting during the World Championship!

Check it out, and let us know if you like it!

http://www.thebluealliance.net/m

[Elgin Clock]

I used this extensively while in Philadelphia!
It was a great way to refresh my memory as to what teams were doing well, and what robots looked like if they had a picture uploaded!

Great resource! Hopefully it doesn't get too bogged down while we are all trying to use it in Atlanta!

[Jeff Pahl]

Awesome addition! I sure could have used this a few times over the last several weeks. It's tough being at one regional while one of your teams is at another. Trying to view the FIRST website match results on a PDA screen is "unpleasant".

[dtengineering]

This is extremely cool. I've bookmarked it on my cell phone, but wasn't able to get the video working. It is a Samsung a920 and can play streaming video from youtube... but it could just be my service provider (Bell Canada) getting grumpy about me watching video from a provider that they aren't partnered with. Bell isn't exactly big on the whole "open platform" concept when it comes to things that might impact their revenue stream!

Thanks for all the work on making TBA such a great resource. It is fun to direct people to it and watch the look on their face when they realize just how "big" FRC really is.

Jason

[Qbranch]

Oooooooooh.....

I like it! Another quality product from our friends at The Blue Alliance.

Thanks! Now when people ask 'is that like battle bots?' I can pull out my phone and explain with a video aide.

-q

[tseres]

i'm having the same problem with Bell, 'cept i have a samsung a610...

[Kingofl337]

It looks good but it would be nice if you kept some of the tables and
formatting from the normal site. I looked at it from my touch.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

It looks good but it would be nice if you kept some of the tables and
formatting from the normal site. I looked at it from my touch.

iPod/iPhone version in the works.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

It looks good but it would be nice if you kept some of the tables and
formatting from the normal site. I looked at it from my touch.

Lots of mobile browsers ignore tables. I haven't figured out a good way to handle formatting of information that is much too long to fit on a single line. A table wouldn't really help in this regard, since you'd have to scroll horizontally to see it all.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

[Josh Goodman]

This is really cool! Thanks!

[Nawaid Ladak]

for some reason, videos aren't working on my ATT 8525 (HTC TyTN) Windows Mobile 6 device, it refuses to open the video up in windows media player mobile.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

for some reason, videos aren't working on my ATT 8525 (HTC TyTN) Windows Mobile 6 device, it refuses to open the video up in windows media player mobile.

It probably depends on the video format. h264 (.mp4) videos don't play well, but wmv (.wmv) videos do. Some videos are some formats and others are others.