why did Davis not use UDP to get data to the phone apps
Do we know that they're not using UDP? Right now there are only 2 or 3 pieces of information:
1. The WL smartphone app on the same network
can receive updates every 2.5secs, which can only come direct from the WLL
2. The same app running under Bluestacks on a Windows desktop works OK wrt wl.com but doesn't see the live data. Galfert's suggestion of Bignox with a network bridge needs to be tried.
3. Pointing a browser at the WLL's IP address does return something, but that something is just a JSON error string