MrSinatra;636599 Wrote: > > if, in theory, you had a single piece of software that was both a DLNA > server, and a DLNA control point, it could, in theory, be remote > controlled by an app similar to ipeng, and control what is played over > the DLNA renderer? > If the renderer supports being remotely controlled by another control point (a lot of the cheap streaming devices only support their built-in control point): yes. > > b/c if it is, thats what i'd want. let the slim hardware be the DLNA > renderer, and let something else, that can be remote controlled by > droid/iphone, etc, be the DLNA server and CP. that would, in theory, > free you from SBS. > Yes. But be aware that in THAT scenario (control point and server being on the same machine) all of your music would have to be on that phone as well and would have to be streamed from there.
That aside, you'll see some restrictions. The most nasty one is that the way DLNA works, the control point has to do ALL the control functionality, like SBS does. That means that your remote has to be permanently active since it's responsible for such trivial things as playing the next track once the currently playing track has finished. This means your remote has to be always on. There are some ways around this - there are DLNA extensions for playlists, for example - but I believe PS3 and XBox are pretty much the only devices out there which support that. > > this is what i thought was/could be possible and what i was advocating. > obviously, it would benefit logitech b/c their hardware would be > solutions for people who otherwise have DLNA servers/control points and > don't want to use SBS. I don't think it would benefit Logitech because they would sell people a solution that sucks (as a user experience) and it never does you any good to do that. Which was my point. I believe Logitech will probably do it anyway... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88170 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
