garym;415335 Wrote: > I suppose this is obvious to most people, but it is interesting that I > can control my bedside BOOM (connected to SN) from the iPeng, even from > 100s of miles away. With my iPhone using only the celluar network (no > wifi), I can see my BOOM as a player, turn it on, change from headphone > to speaker mode, select a favorite to play, etc. For me, this is nice as > I can change the alarm time and/or radio station for my wife even though > I'm out of town. (Or wake her in the middle of the night with some > serious Grateful Dead jams...which she hates).
One minor security note, if you are doing this without any tunneling then pretty much ANYONE on the net can access your BOOM too. Even using Squeezecenter's builtin password system is not safe for over the net since it does not use ssl the info is in the clear. While they do make some efforts to secure Squeezecenter you must remember this is an application that is built with the thought that it is used only on a local LAN behind a firewall. Now that said, I know many users access their server remotely using an ssh tunnel which is a perfect way to access it. This is not possible on a non-jailbroken iphone though because the iphone does not support background apps. Forgot the important point. Sure you may not want someone controlling your players but the big concern is that if there exists a vulenabilty in either the SC code or Perl that SC relys on then someone could gain access to the server running SC which is a bigger concern. From that point they could do many not so great things. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62245 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
