Previously, I only used the Config app on my iPad. Now I installed it on my iPhone and discovered that all devices, sequences, etc., were immediately available in the iPhone app as well. This is certainly good, but it leads me to realize that the app apparently stores the data on Cantata’s servers.
But what happens if these servers are no longer accessible or available one day?
Can the remote control still be used?
Haptique works without internet, it requires the web server to synchronise mobile apps and user database as well as library of IR db. We are going to provide the server application as windows exe file so you will be able to run it on local machine. But it will not bring the data like Infrared code library. If ever that day comes we would have already provided the local server files so the Haptique apps will live forever but there will not be further development. We will also provide our API so other sub systems can provide continuous data to Haptique.
Also there is a future plan to bring our own hub which will remove the need for our servers to make Haptique configure work. Cloud is not an enemy but a tool for us to provide rapid development.
Current scenario is : database+Webapp+IR library is hosted on AWS Europe. Haptique app hosts all the integrations locally on the remote.
Also since Haptique is an Android system it will always work with other apps even let’s say hypothetically we don’t provide our own server application. User will have plenty of choices to use different apps on it.