Falcon briefings the easier way

Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2021

In: Stvari

Tags: falcon

Translations: bs

The earlier article about viewing Falcon BMS briefings on your smartphone showed a convenient way to view briefings in your smartphone or tablet. Well, it wasn't convenient enough for me, so I decided to write a small utility to make it... more convenient.

Download link

How it looks like

Basically, it's a Python script which runs an HTTP server and watches the briefing directory for new files, renames them and makes them available for viewing in a web browser. Renaming them always to the same name makes it possible to create a shortcut on your smartphone's homescreen and open the briefing with one tap.

Mind the NOTE in the README about using the precompiled, single-file executable and the malware warning. I do use it, because for some weird reason I find running it that way more convenient on Windows compared to running the script directly via Python. I guess it's "the Windows way". Serves me right for using evil proprietary software like Windows, eh.