Mobile Player for Nokia Internet Tablets Watch and control your home TV on your Internet Tablet from anywhere in the world

Announcement February 6, 2009: Nokia Tablet Player version 1.1.0.61 now available!

This release contains the fix for connection failures faced by some users. If you have received  the error "Monsoon device is unreachable" recently, then we suggest that you upgrade your Mobile Player to this new version.

Monsoon Multimedia is pleased to offer the Player for the Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. All you need is a Monsoon box installed at home, the Player installed on your tablet and a high speed internet connection at both ends (300 kbps or greater recommended). If you do not already have one, you can purchase a Monsoon product at our eStore.

Tablet Player has been qualified for OS2007 (aka Chinook) and OS2008 (aka Diablo). As always, it is recommended that you make sure you have the latest update of the Nokia Internet Tablet OS on your device (see your device’s documentation for information on how to upgrade its OS) and the latest version of the firmware on your Monsoon box.

Downloading Tablet Player

Player can be downloaded as a ‘deb file’ from: http://myhava.com/downloads/havaplayer_1.1.0.61_armel.deb directly to your Internet Tablet, or to your PC and then transfer this to the tablet, where you double tap on the resulting .deb file under File Manager in order to install it.

Downloading directly to your Internet Tablet

• Launch the tablet’s web browser, go to http://myhava.com/downloads/havaplayer_1.1.0.61_armel.deb. Or, if you'd like to save a little typing, try: http://tinyurl.com/agy4e7 instead.
• Click ‘Open’ in the dialog
• Navigate the screen prompts to install the player

Downloading through your computer and transferring to your tablet

• Download http://myhava.com/downloads/havaplayer_1.1.0.61_armel.deb on your computer to a location you will remember, such as your desktop
• You can then transfer this installer ‘deb’ file to your tablet via Bluetooth or USB, again, remember where you copy it
  1. If you used Bluetooth, as soon as the file transmission is complete, the installer will automatically launch
  2. If you copied the deb file to your tablet over USB, disconnect your tablet from your computer, navigate to where you copied the deb file on your tablet and launch the deb file
• Follow the prompts

(Optional) Relocating the Mobile Player to ‘My Selection’

• If you’re like us, you will want to use Player a lot. Having to go to the Applications folder, down to Player will be cumbersome
• Here’s a way to make it quickly accessible:
  1. Go into Settings �> Control Panel �> Panels
  2. Tap on Applications Organize
  3. Drag the Player to the ‘My Selection’ folder
  4. Tap on ‘My Selection’
  5. Tap and drag the Player to the desired level within ‘My Selection’ (like THE TOP of the list…!)

Quick tour of Mobile Player for Nokia Internet Tablets

As you will see and experience, the user interface gives you convenient access to the key buttons of your TV set top box remote. All the buttons are large enough to be operated with your fingers (or the stylus, of course).

As soon as you have tuned to the show you want to watch, tap once on your screen for a stunning fullscreen playback of your TV show on your Internet Tablet:

The amazing audio quality of the built-in speakers or the headset will make for a most delightful TV experience far away from your sofa.

One-tap again on the screen and you are back to our friendly user interface to control your TV source. Choose one of the four modes at the bottom to bring up the corresponding remote: CHAN (for Channel control), FAV (for your Favorite channels), STB (for Set Top Box functions) and PVR (for Personal Video Recorder functions).

Using Mobile Player

• If you haven’t done so already, install and configure your Monsoon box, connecting it to your TV source and associating it to your home network. Remember the Name or ID and the password that you used to configure your Monsoon device for remote viewing. You will need to enter this information in the Mobile Player for Nokia Internet Tablet before you can watch TV on it
• Make sure you have a good internet high-speed connection (300Kbps or better is recommended)
• Launch Mobile Player by tapping on its icon:
• The Mobile Player main window will appear:
• Tap on the text “Mobile Player” on the top left to display a drop down menu
  (Note: you can also use the Menu key left to the keyboard of the Nokia N810 to perform this task. Player also supports the navigation keys of the N810 and the keyboard, of course. Enjoy these when watching your TV on your N810 in full screen! We have provided an extensive list of commands via keyboard shortcuts. (See the Help �> Shortcut Table for details)
• Select “Select device” and then tap on the “Add” button to enter your information
• Enter the Name or ID, and the Password, of your Monsoon device. These are the values you chose when you set up your device for remote viewing in the Setup Wizard application on your PC
• The “Shortcut Name” is optional. Enter one if you would like to (like “My Home ”). If you don’t enter any, the Shortcut Name for your device will use the value you enter next in Name or ID
• Select the “Set as Default” button if you wish to make this your default (in case you have multiple boxs you intend to watch on your tablet). This will allow you to connect to it by default.
• Tap “OK” to save the settings
• The “Select device” dialog also allows you to enter other devices, to edit a name already entered, to delete a box, connect to or disconnect from a device

Navigating the Mobile Player

Connect � Selecting the Connect button initiates connection to a device

• If you press Connect after launching Mobile Player, it will connect to your default box
• If you press Connect after having disconnected from a device, or after losing a connection to a device, it will connect to that same device

Select Device � Allows you to Edit, Add or Delete devices and to connect to or disconnect from a box

IR Commands � IR Commands displays ALL available IR commands for the selected video input on the device. Use this menu to trigger a command for your box that is not available from any of the UI buttons, or to test which command you should assign to one of the programmable UI buttons

Settings � Offers submenus for ‘Device Settings’ and ‘Player Settings’

Help � Offers submenus for ‘Shortcut Table’ to view the keyboard shortcuts available from the N810 keyboard. Online Help to answer frequently asked questions and tutorials

About � Lists the Mobile Player version number

Close � Quits Mobile Player

Remote Control

Mobile Player gives you access to four onscreen remotes on the right side of its UI window: Channel, Favorites, STB and PVR. Use the four buttons at the bottom of the window to display your desired remote:

	The CHAN mode allows you to enter the channel number you want to change to, onscreen, to go Channel Up or Channel Down with the arrows, or call on the Previous or Favorite commands of your set top box. The onscreen digit buttons come in handy if you don't want to expand your N810 keyboard, or if you have an N800 which has no keyboard
	The FAV mode allows you to assign your favorite channels to the 12 onscreen buttons. You can enter a text label or channel number to identify each of your favorite channels, or you can use channel logo buttons that you would create yourself or get from other users. Then, to switch to one of your favorite channels, just press the corresponding onscreen button.
	The STB mode gives you access to the main functions to control a set top box: Menu, Guide, Info, Record, Page Up, Page Down, Last, Exit, List. In case, your set top box uses non conventional IR commands, you can specify them to enable them on your device. The 4 colored buttons can be also assigned any command of your choice.
	The PVR mode provides access to all the commands for Personal Video Recorder (PVR) if your set top box includes PVR functionality: Pause, Play, Stop, Skip Back, Skip Forward, Fast Rewind, Fast Forward, Info, Exit, Live TV, Record. In addition, you can also assign other favorite commands to the 4 colored buttons of this onscreen remote.

Another great feature is the Mute On/Off button in the top right corner of each onscreen remote. Someone barging in the room and you don't want them to know that you're watching TV?
Press on that Mute Off button quickly...!

For the power-users or keyboard-mongers among you, many of the most used commands also have convenient keyboard equivalents like the digits, channel up and down, menu navigation, page up, page down, play, pause, stop, skip back, skip forward, fast rewind, fast forward, mute on/off, menu, guide, etc.

Switching between Remote Window and Fullscreen TV Watching

To watch your TV in fullscreen, simply tap once on the video screen of the UI window.

Tap again to toggle back to the Remote window

How to Program the ‘Unassigned Buttons’ on the ‘FAV’ onscreen remote.

1. Tap on the button you want to program in the ‘FAV’ onscreen remote. (Unassigned buttons are grayed out)
2. Type the desired channel number in the “Channel Number” field. (Note that you will need to hold the Fn key down to enter your digits)
3. Choose one of the following options to display an image or text on the assigned button:
   • Type a text label; up to 5 characters. (But they may not all display if letters are too wide)
   • Select an available logo you want to display on the button
   • Use Other Image if you have stored custom button icons of your own, or acquired from others, on your Internet Tablet. (See notes below for more information re: custom button icons)
4. Tap ‘OK’ to save your settings
5. If you want to change or remove a Favorite button assignment you have made, tap and hold the button for a few seconds and proceed with your desired changes or tap Clear in the dialog that gets displayed after 2-3 seconds

Notes regarding custom button icons

• Icons should be of maximum size 69x42 pixels (width x height). Accepted formats are png, bmp and jpg.
• You can keep the custom button icon in any folder of your Internet Tablet including the MMC card. You can select the custom logo for assignment from the desired folder, by choosing the "Use Other Image" option in the assignment dialog
• But you will need to make sure that once you have assigned a custom button icon to a button, you continue to have the custom button icon at the same location from where you did the assignment. In case you change the location and the button icon file is not found, you will see a broken file icon

Programming Buttons on STB and PVR Onscreen Remotes

• Some remote controls use different commands, even for some common commands like Channel Up/Down and List. In these cases, you may need to program a button to control some functions from your tablet
• Tap on any unassigned button (or one of the 4 colored buttons).
  (Unassigned buttons are grayed out)
• The “Assign this command” dialog will open
• Select the desired IR (remote control) code from the drop down menu.
  (Note: most of the commands will be self-explanatory, but some will be somewhat cryptic; eg, Discreet Input 2 or Future Pick 5, etc.You can pick the IR code you think will be good, assign it to that button and save your selection, then try the button and if it fails to do what you wanted, repeat the process again and again until you find the right code.A good way to proceed is to test the available IR commands from the application menu’s IR Commands entry and find the proper IR command for your needs. Then pick it from the list in the “Assign this command” dialog)
• Choose one of the following options to display an image or text on the assigned button:
  • Type a text label (up to 5 characters)
  • Select an available logo you want to display on the button
  • Use Other File if you have stored custom button icons of your own, or acquired from others, on your Internet Tablet
    (See the notes above regarding custom button icons)
• Tap ‘OK’ to save your settings
• If you want to change or remove a IR command button assignment you have made, tap and hold the button for a few seconds and proceed with your desired changes or tap Clear in the dialog that gets displayed after 2-3 seconds

Note: Factory assigned buttons cannot be reassigned

What do I need, to use Mobile Player on my Nokia Internet Tablet?

1. First, you need a Monsoon box if you don't already have one (see next section for more info).
2. Connect and configure your box to your TV source at home � satellite, digital cable or IPTV, receiver or DVR, or plain analog cable or antenna.
3. Finally, download and install the free Mobile Player for Internet Tablet and enter your box name and password (which you specified when configuring your device). That's all!
   From then on, you can enjoy your home TV wherever you are with a broadband internet connection.

NOTE: Monsoon has recently released the 1.7.4 software for PCs, which installs a new firmware build on the device. We have heard from a few users that they have seen performance issues with the new firmware. We are reviewing these reports and expect to have a resolution for them soon.
If you experience problems, please send us a bug report with as much detail as possible in an email with a descriptive subject matter, addressed to support@myhava.com.

Which model is best to use with my Nokia Internet Tablet?

All current models are supported: Wireless HD, Titanium HD WiFi, Platinum HD or Titanium HD.

To find information about the various models, click here. To purchase a Monsoon Box, click on the Shop link of this site, or visit our retail and etail partners...

Note: if your TV source is analog cable or antenna, you probably will think that your only option is the Wireless HD, which is the only model with a built-in analog TV tuner. But you can also use any of the other models if you have a VCR with TV tuner. Simply connect your TV cable to your VCR's antenna-in port and the VCR to your device.

Issues and Workarounds in Version 1.0

What if I am missing key commands of my STB in the Mobile Player onscreen remotes

Some STBs use different commands to perform certain functions; eg, Dish Network STBs typically do not have Channel Up or Channel Down buttons, but use the Arrow Up and Arrow Down commands instead to change channels. As a result, some buttons may end be unassigned in the Mobile Player onscreen remotes. Follow the instructions above to assign the proper command to your desired unassigned buttons.

If Mobile Player assigned the wrong command to a desired button, you cannot change this assignment. A workaround is to assign the correct command to one of the unassigned buttons or to one of the 4 colored buttons of the STB or the PVR onscreen remotes.

The List button in the STB remote is a good example of such possible problem.

In some situations, video freezes in low bandwidth conditions and sometimes does not recover

While playing video and audio on your internet tablet, a bandwidth value is displayed in Kbps, next to the ‘Mobile Player’ window title in UI window mode. When the bandwidth drops for a while to a level insufficient to continue streaming video and audio smoothly, the video sometimes freezes and might remain frozen, even though the bandwidth may have recovered to an acceptable level.

A workaround for this situation is to disconnect the Mobile Player and connect again, using the Mobile Player application menu.

Large black bars are displayed on the sides and/or top and bottom of the video screen, instead of the video filling up the screen

Thin/Narrow black bars are normal because the video screen is not exactly the same aspect ratio as the source video.

But if you get large black bars to the sides and/or the top and bottom of the video screen, try to change the output settings of your STB. Some STBs will allow you to output the video in a way that will allow Mobile Player to fill its video screen with the TV content.

Note that this issue is specific to STBs outputting HD signals.

Continuous “Buffering” message on connection attempt

While attempting to connect to device, if the player gets stuck on the “Buffering” message, disconnect and reconnect.

Audio and video can sometimes get out of sync after an extended streaming period

If you experience an AV sync problem, we recommend disconnecting and reconnecting again to force an AV resync.

Green blocks at the start of video streaming

After connection to the device by Mobile Player, the video display starts with a green ‘pixelization’ effect. This only appears for a second or so, after which the video should play normally.

Pay attention to the tablet’s text entry modes when entering case-sensitive data

When entering case-sensitive text in dialogs (like the Name and Password when adding a box in Mobile Player), make sure that the text entry mode is correct for your needs (Abc, abc or 123). Otherwise, change the mode appropriately, using the shift or Fn keys.