NARENDAR MADHAVAN

How to use RAN1 Live

A quick tour for delegates. Nothing to install, no account, no login — open the link on your phone and it works. Add it to your home screen for a full-screen, app-like experience (Safari: Share → Add to Home Screen; Chrome: ⋮ → Install).

Unofficial tool. Schedule data is generated automatically from 3GPP meeting documents and may contain errors — always confirm against the chair notes.

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The tabs

Now

What is running right this minute, in meeting-local time. Each card shows the session, the room, the agenda items being covered and how far through it is. Use this when you walk out of a session and need to know where to go next.

Schedule

The full week as a timetable grid, one column per parallel track, every day drawn from 08:30 to 19:30 so the days line up.

• Tap any block to see the agenda-item breakdown with per-item minutes.
• Coffee and lunch bands are shown across the full width.
• Search and agenda filters narrow the grid to the topics you care about.
• The star on a block adds that session to My agenda.

My agenda

Everything you starred, in chronological order, plus a calendar export. Tap Export .ics to drop your personal selection into Outlook/Google/Apple Calendar for the week.

Drafts

Live tracking of the meeting’s working documents.

• The tree mirrors the actual Inbox/ directory as discovered on the server — no hard-coded folder names, so it works for every meeting.
• All activity shows every new or updated file.
• My items shows only files under agenda items you bookmarked or followed.
• Unread counts appear on the tab and on each folder; opening an item clears it.
• The source line tells you where the data came from — Venue (10.10.10.10, used when you are on the meeting Wi-Fi), Sync (the 3GPP SYNC mirror), or Published (the last snapshot built by the pipeline). The same file arriving on several servers is de-duplicated into one entry.
• It re-checks about every 60 seconds; Refresh now forces an immediate re-scan and tells you exactly how many files were new or updated.

Venue mode (on meeting Wi-Fi)

When you are in the meeting venue and connected to the meeting Wi-Fi, the fastest source is the local server at 10.10.10.10. Browsers refuse to let an HTTPS page read an HTTP server, so the secure main site cannot do this directly.

If the app detects it is blocked, it shows a banner offering to open venue mode on a plain-HTTP copy of the same app. Venue mode can read 10.10.10.10 directly and therefore gets the freshest drafts and any meeting-local schedule updates. Tap Open venue mode, and your bookmarks, follows and read state are carried over. When you leave the venue, use the link back to the secure site.

Tick Always open venue mode once (either on the banner or from inside venue mode) and you never have to think about it again: open https://ran1.app as usual, and whenever the venue twin is reachable the app redirects itself there silently. If the twin cannot be reached — you are not on the meeting Wi-Fi, or your browser forced the hop to HTTPS — the app just stays on the secure site and shows the normal banner instead of looping.

If you never see the banner, the app is probably falling back to the public SYNC mirror, which is fine but may be a few minutes behind.

Rooms

Every physical room used this week and what is scheduled in it. Open a room to see its whole day. If your colleagues use the Company tab, you can also see who is currently in which room.

Company (optional)

Voluntary, account-free presence sharing with your colleagues: pick a shared group code, set a display name, and check in to a room. It expires by itself after two hours, is scoped to one meeting, and never uses your location. Everything you enter stays on your own device unless a shared backend is explicitly enabled.

Changes

A diff feed: sessions that moved, rooms that changed, agenda items added or dropped since the previous version of the schedule documents.

Meetings

Switch between meetings. RAN1 Live discovers all meetings from the official 3GPP portal, so past meetings stay browsable as an archive and the next meeting appears automatically — the current one is selected for you by default.

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Good to know

• Offline: the last loaded schedule is cached, so the app still opens in a basement meeting room with no signal. A banner tells you the data is stale.
• Your data: bookmarks, follows, read state, display name and presence live only in your browser’s storage on your device. Clearing site data resets them.
• Times are always shown in the meeting’s local time zone, not your phone’s.
• Venue mode: the plain-HTTP venue twin is only for use on the meeting LAN. It does not support account-based features; switch back to the secure site for those. The twin must live on its own separate domain — the main site uses strict HTTPS (HSTS) for all its subdomains, so a twin hosted under the same domain would be force-upgraded to HTTPS by the browser and could not read the venue server.
• Limitations: the schedule is parsed from chair/sub-chair DOCX files, so a last-minute change made verbally in the room will not appear until an updated document is uploaded.

Questions, wrong sessions, missing rooms? Send a screenshot — parser fixes are usually quick.