Adding an iPad device to your design
Introduction
The iPad is a touch screen device made by Apple Inc. For more information, see apple.com/ipad.
The NWare iPad device allows you to control an NWare project from an iPad. It works in conjunction with an nControl unit or an nTouch 180 unit, which hosts the Kiosk pages from the NWare project.
Notes:
- The iPad requires iOS version 4.2 or later.
- The NWare Mobile application or NWare Mobile Designer Edition application must be installed on the iPad. These are both available via iTunes.
- NWare Mobile Designer Edition is fully functional, but has a time limit. You can use it to connect to a project as many times as you want for one hour; afterwards, connections will be refused until the project has been redeployed or reemulated, or the host (nControl or nTouch 180) has been power cycled.
- If you are going to deploy the project, Apple Bonjour must be installed on the nControl or nTouch 180.
- If you are going to use emulation mode, Apple Bonjour must be installed on the NWare PC. This application is installed automatically when iTunes is installed.
- There is no set limit on the number of iPad devices that can be added to a project. However, if you add several of these devices and users are interacting with them simultaneously, you may find that the responsiveness of the Kiosk screens is affected.
- We recommend that you place nTouch 60 devices, Kiosk Layout blocks, Kiosk2Go Layout blocks and Mobile Display blocks on a separate page to the other devices in the project, and do not export the page.
In the example below, users can control the audio system via any of the Apple devices. To use a set up like this, your NWare project will need to contain two iPhone Mobile Display devices and two iPad Mobile Display devices, each configured to contact the corresponding Apple device. You will also need an nControl node, two NioNodes and an amplifier device.
The iPad sections in the NWare User Guide will explain how to add an iPad to your design and configure it. If you require only reference information on the iPad device, see iPad Device in the NWare Device Reference.
