4mula1;160103 Wrote: > There are some ideas here, which is good, I'm glad to see soem interest. > But maybe I need to clarify some things to make what I am really > looking for more clear. > > Like I said before, this is for my parents. My parents aren't computer > savvy, therefore I am the family IT manager. I want a minimum of things > that can go wrong but make it super easy to use. > > I would like to be able to initiate the remote connection from the SB3 > and also be able to browse the remote library as if it were a local > library. I do understand the slow changing tracks, that's due to > buffering. I see it with SoftSqueeze. > > To be able to browse the remote music collection the remote SS would > have to send the track data formatted for the local SS to format it for > the local player. I prefer Artist - Album but my parents may like > something else. I don't want to shove my preferred format down their > throat if that's not what they want. SS must pass the tag info, > something which current stream.mp3 streaming won't do as effectively. > That's why I believe so much that this needs to be a seperate plugin, > because there are a few caveats to doing this where the local SS needs > to control the local player but needs to parse specially formatted data > from the remote SS to keep everything looking consistent with the local > users' preferences. > > For a wider audience, who don't have a static IP address, the ability > to resolve a hostname would be important, especially if using dyndns or > other similar services. I have a static IP address, so that's no issue > for me. My parents have a dynamic IP address, so IP address filtering > comes down to the block of addresses my ISP has, not ideal. > > Integrated SSH may not be required as long as putty or or similar > tunneling tools can keep a persistent connection. It would also need > to be able to reconnect if the remote server goes down (it is Windows, > you have to reboot for EVERYTHING). Even with that, the plugin would > need to make periodic checks for the remote SS availability and if it's > not available show it unavailable and have an option to notify when it > is.
I'm confused by your confusion. I was doing just what you want to do with my own parents and it works perfectly. You don't need them to have a version of Slimserver that's "slaved" to your version. Rather, you just point their SB's at your (remote) Slimserver directly (this is made especially easy since you've already said you have a static IP). Just forward the proper ports from on your router to your server and point their SB's at your global IP then they'll connect to your server just as though they were on your local network. They have a dynamic IP so you can't use IP filtering, but you can at least protect your web interface via a password. If you feel that you need more security than this you can setup an SSH tunnel, as was previously mentioned (though this would require them to have a computer on at all times). Player settings like track formatting are maintained separately for each player so you won't have conflicts of preference like you mention. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30331 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
