What is Mediabee Web Access?
Mediabee Web Access (MWA) is a “light” version of the Mediabee Desktop Client. This is a quick write-up of MWA. This and other material will be incorporated into the existing help documentation over time.
What do I need to run MWA?
To run MWA, you must first have Mediabee installed on a Windows XP or Windows 2000 machine. (A Linux version is expected to be released in the not-too-distant future.)
MWA is completely browser-based and can be used from any system that has Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+ or Mozilla/Firefox 1.0+.
Does it work the same as Mediabee Desktop Client (MDC)?
MWA does not offer all the functions of MDC, but it offers some of the key functions that users have been asking for. MWA is meant for people who’d like to access their home calendar from work or vice versa. MWA could also be used, for example, to check on your children’s homework completion or your elder relative’s medication compliance (all standard disclaimers apply) - assuming that the children or your elder relative are checking off their completed tasks.
On what systems should I run MWA as opposed to Mediabee Desktop Client (MDC) or Mediabee Thin Client (MTC)?
As stated, you can run MWA anywhere. Let’s say you have a home network with some PCs, Macs, and Linux machines. You would run MDC on one of your PC (Windows) machines. Then you could run MWA on the other machines. MWA is light on system resource consumption, and can run on any operating system (OS) - including some older Windows machines.
Will MWA work with older versions of Mediabee?
You will need Mediabee Version 1.1 or higher to run MWA. You must be a registered user. If you registered Mediabee V1.0.13 or lower, you must re-register. To re-register, you should change the “location” field in the registration screen and click on the Register Now button.
How do I login to MWA?
Visit http://www.mediabee.com/login and you will see a button for Mediabee Web Access. Click on the button to open up a separate browser window from which you will login. You will need to have the following items from your Registration screen handy: email address, password, phone number, and location. The password and location are case-sensitive and must be typed in exactly as it appears in the Registration screen.
I’ve done everything, but it doesn’t seem to work?
If you see the message “Login failed. Try again.” then you should double-check the details from the Registration screen. You may need to re-register if you first registered using an older version of Mediabee.
If the browser appears to hang, it is likely that MDC is unable to connect to our server. This could be because your system or your firewall is preventing MDC to access port 5222.
If this error is happening immediately after you first tried to access MWA after you installed Version 1.1, you may need to reboot your system.
If you’re still having issues, please send an email to support@mediabee.com. As you know, this is still beta software, an we would appreciate your cooperation in ironing out any potential bugs.
