February 2008 Archives

Funiculus 0.60 is out...it will be on Installer soon (via the ModMyiFone.com source), but until then, here is a copy for those who want to install it manually:
funiculus_0_60.zip

Overview

If you need to manually install an app on your jailbroken iPhone (that is, install something without using Installer), you need to do the following things:
1. Download and unzip the file you want to install onto your home computer
2. Copy the .app folder into the /Applications directory on your iPhone (using SSH or whatever else works)
3. Set the permissions on the .app folder and the executable inside that folder.

The best way to do steps 2 & 3 are with an SSH program.  This is free software you run on your home computer.  (If you use Windows, you can use "PuTTY" and "WinSCP"...download and install both of them.)  It interacts with a program on your iPhone called OpenSSH (which you very well may already have...if you don't, you can get it on Installer...use the "Services" program to turn SSH on and off.)

You can also use your SSH program to set permissions of the files (step #3).  However, if you use a different method that doesn't allow this, you can also set the permissions using MobileFinder.

Setting permissions on your iPhone
This is a quick run-through on how to set the permissions on an app by using MobileFinder.  The app that we will change the permissions on is Funiculus.  (Remember, if you are using Installer, this isn't necessary--Installer does this for you automatically.  This is only for manual installations.)


First, make sure you have MobileFinder.  It is available on Installer.  Run it.

Here is a preview of Funiculus version 0.60.  For a link to download the beta version (0.58), please scroll down to the bottom of the entry.

Standard Mode:

This mode is essentially the same thing as Funiculus 0.5. 






























Fretboard Mode:

This mode has a diagram of a fretboard.  You first select an instrument/tuning, and then you play a string.  Look at the diagram, at the string corresponding to the one you just played.  If it's too flat, it will be a shade of blue.  Too sharp, a shade of red.  If you are in the ballpark, it will be greenish.  You should switch to the pitch meter on top at this point to fine tune the string.





















Clef Mode:




This mode simply represents the note you play on a musical clef.
































About Mode :


Sorry, this is sort of anti-climatic...not much to this mode.
































Early version:

Funiculus version 0.60 will be released soon (on Installer), but for those who wish to test the newest version, here is version 0.58 (for manual installation via SSH):
funiculus_0_58.zip (Update: see below)
There are plenty of known issues, but let me know of any you find anyway.  (I haven't even tested the clef mode since I shifted the graphics around...I'm not sure it works yet in this new form.)

Update: The clef mode definitely doesn't work at this point...it will be easy to repair though.
Update: Here is version 0.59.5 for manual installation:
funiculus_0_59_5.zip 
I corrected the typo I made in the source code concerning "Clef Mode", and so it should work now.  And I've added a bunch of tunings.  (Version 0.59.5 corrects a few tunings, for those of you who downloaded 0.59.0 in the two minutes it was posted.)


Tuning recommendations:
If you want to recommend a tuning to be included in the "fretboard mode", please post a comment or email me, naming the strings from top (physically...the string closest to the sky when a standard right-hander holds the instrument) to bottom.  For each string, give the letter and the octave number (with Middle C equal to C4...remember that each new octave begins on C.)  Don't forget to include the name of the octave and the instrument.

Here is an example:

Standard Guitar Tuning: E2, A2, D3, G3, B3, E4

I've put up the latest version of Funiculus (0.50) here:
funiculus_0_50.zip 

It's not out yet, but the next version of Funiculus will have some rather large changes.

If you can't get Funiculus (or Erica Sadun's VoiceNotes) to work, specifically, sound doesn't seem to register on the meter (the vertical bar), you can try going into iPhone settings and resetting to the defaults.  (You may have to do this twice...not sure why.)  

(Restoring probably won't do anything because the problem may be a preference file setting...these things are synced back after a restore, so you still have the same settings.)

This is a fix for both VoiceNotes and Funiculus.  For more help on this subject, you can check out Erica Sadun's page (VoiceNotes) and the ModMyiFone discussion forums.

Here is a video made by the folks over at Touchmods of Funiculus working on an iPod Touch with an external microphone:

Funiculus version 0.42 can be downloaded here: funiculus_0_42.zip
It will most likely be on Installer soon. 

New features:

- A new algorithm...more accurate note detection
- New graphics on the main screen
-The title screen now has a macron in it to emphasize the Latin aspect of the title.

To install manually:
    Download the new version and unzip it on your hard drive.  Inside will be a directory called Funiculus.app.  Use an SSH program to copy it into your iPhone's Applications directory.  Also use the SSH program to set the permissions to 755 (or anything with read and execution access) on both the "Funiculus.app" folder and the "funiculus" executable inside of it.

Known issues:

• The home button is very sluggish.  Note: you should NOT use the home button to exit the program.  For reasons currently unknown, this doesn't shut down the audio all the way, and could leave a thread running in the background.  If you do accidentally exit by the home button, you can either reopen Funiculus and use the "Exit" button, or you can run another program that uses sound...e.g. NES or Garf.   Using the "Exit" button does not have this problem.
• If some type of sound is played (e.g. incoming text) while running Funiculus, the program will lose access to the microphone.  You will have to exit and rerun the program.
• The pitch meter has sort of an optical illusion thing going on...at least for me.
• The manual string-by-string mode is clunky...this will soon be replaced by a new system of selecting strings.

Note about Automode:
The note displayed is not necessarily the one the string is being tuned against.  Even if it displays the wrong note, the tuning meter should still be accurate.