OSCAR suggestion - Portable App

[Damiansd]

Hello,

Would it be possible to make a Portable App version of Oscar. My daily driver at work is locked down so I can't install apps, but lunchtime at work is the best time to review my sleep data, so a portable Windows app would be really helpful.

Thanks,
Damian.

[Gideon]

We have talked about this and we are years away from this. A lot of underlying work needs to occur before we can start on this.

[edfreeman]

Got a smartphone or tablet?

Install Splashtop (or another one of the free remote access apps) on your smartphone/tablet and your home computer where Oscar resides. You can then "see and use" your computer on that device.

[Damiansd]

Thanks gents. 

I thought that may be the case. I'll look into the remote control approach.

Cheers,
Damian.

[Jeff8356]

Another (somewhat more complicated) approach would be to setup a VPN server, then use a VNC client to access your home network. Pretty secure.

[pholynyk]

Their is a project called Portable Apps that makes slightly modified versions of programs so that they run entirely from a USB stick on a Windows computer without installing anything or modifying the Windows registry.
This is way more feasible than anything on a phone or tablet, but we would need somebody who knows the Portable system to do the work.

[GuyScharf]

How locked down is your work machine?  Does your work machine allow you to touch the registry, even if only temporarily?  If it does, I would think you could install OSCAR to a USB stick, then set the OSCAR data directory on the USB stick, and I think OSCAR will run.  It will update the registry though.

If you cannot touch the registry, some changes would be required in OSCAR to make it truly portable.