WHS Health

Wed, Mar 10, 2010

  |  Terry Walsh
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WHS Health

Experience Level: Standard

WHS Health is a set of Web Pages formatted especially for viewing on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and Palm Pre devices. The pages read the data from the health.xml file that is generated on your Home Server beginning with Power Pack 3, renders them into an easy to read format, and provides useful details about the state of your Windows Home Server.

Developer: Nigel Wilks and Alex Kuretz

More Info: Download

Release History

v1.0.0.14 (10th March 2010)

  • Logoff option when viewing over HTTPS
  • Improved the drives page, it’s now bigger and has status icons.
  • Status Icons added to Backups, Drives and Shared Folders pages.
  • Translation of XML Date format into a more popular format (the installer will pick MM/DD/YYYY for US systems and DD/MM/YYYY for other)
  • Removed Serial Number from System Information page.
  • English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish language support

v1.0.0.10 (11th February 2010)

  • Renamed Console Errors to Console Status
  • Icon Added to Console Status Item
  • Updated Icons
  • Better handling of “non standard” web site configurations. I’d like to thank Snowdins for highlighting his neat Custom Action he worked on for P80.
  • WebSites.XML for both home and remote pages updated on install and cleaned on uninstall.
  • Changes in Settings tab now correctly applied when the OK or Apply button is clicked
  • Correct specification of secure and non-secure URLs in remote pages

v1.0.0.7 (10th December 2009)

  • Installer checks for Power Pack 3 compatibility
  • Clarification that web page works on platforms other than the iPhone/iPod Touch

v1.0.0.6 (9th December 2009)

  • Initial release

 

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12 Responses to “WHS Health”

  1. COPC Says:

    Works on Androids as well!

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  2. Alex Kuretz Says:

    We’ve had reports that it works well on Palm Pre as well. Basically we expect this to work fine on any mobile platform that has a modern browser, unfortunately Windows Mobile is not such a mobile platform. :(

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  3. Jeu Says:

    You mean not even Opera or Skyfire on Windows Mobile would work?

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  4. Alex Kuretz Says:

    I was speaking of built-in support, the native IE in Windows Mobile does not work well. Opera does indeed work fine, as should Skyfire though I’ve not tried it.

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  5. peter Says:

    Worked great on my iPhone. Nice little addition. Thanks folks!

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  6. Jim Says:

    Works fine for me, nice add-on!

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  7. Nigel Wilks Says:

    We’ve posted an update to this Add-In, v1.0.0.10 is now available.

    http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/02/11/whs-health-add-in-updated/

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  8. Pete Crouch Says:

    Hi My iphone will not access the whs health page that is show on my WHS settings tab, seems to be a security certificate issue, any suggestions welcome

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    • Alex Kuretz Says:

      Hi Pete, we can best help troubleshoot if you post in the mediasmartserver.net forums, a screenshot of what you are seeing could also be helpful. Most likely you are simply encountering the Certificate Warning which can be acknowledged, or you can reconfigure your remote access to attempt to re-generate the certificate.

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  9. Dave S. Says:

    Works perfectly on my Nokia E71, using the standard S60 Web Browser. Thank you!

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  10. Corseford Says:

    Poor rating, although on PP3 no health.xml file available. Also no instructions with this add in re accessing from iphone. Not worth the effort to sort all this out, just deleted it.

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