jmanings;340114 Wrote: > > 1) The local playback is awesome! I am really hoping for remote > playback someday. To be able to access my home collection from work, > travel etc by accessing the ip of my squeeze center. > > Any thoughts on if this is a possibility in the future? Have i missed > any discussion of this? I would love to know. > No, it's a possibility today. Hence with the usual tradeoff between comfort and security Precondition is that you have your PC accessible from the outside, to do that you might need a dynamic DNS account, e.g. from dyndns.org. A lot of routers support that out of the box so that you will not need a software on your PC.
Then there are three alternatives: 1) open port 9000 on your router and connect it to your PC. Make sure to enable password protection in Squeezecenter. Now you can access SC through <youraddress>:9000/iPeng. To be a little bit more secure you can redirect the port to something else. You will need iPhone/iTouch firmware 2.1 for this. 2) Jailbreak your iPod and install OpenSSL (No, I didn't recommend that :-)) Install OpenSSH on your PC and open a tunnel from your iPod, this way you can redirect SC's port to e.g. localhost. Pretty secure but a bit tedious if you don't have experience with OpenSSH Note that this will NOT work with the "official" SSH clients on the iPod since "official" 3rd party apps can not run background processes. 3) My preferred solution: Create a VPN (virtual private network). The big advantage is that the iPod supports this "out of the box". There are three protocols available, I only know two: a) PPTP is a Microsoft protocol and said to be not very secure. But sine it's MS I assume there should be Windows solutions for this. b) IPSec. Secure IP. Tedious protocol but very secure and a lot of implementations available. > > 2) I notice my XM radio plug in is not working with ipeng. It logs me > in, but it dosent show the stations or presets. All I see is a path of > Home/XM Radio Online/ > > Just thought I'd Mention it. > Is there any way I can test this here? Do I need hard- and software to run XM plugin? No sats here in Europe... > > 3) Now all I need someone to create is a way to turn on my PC upstairs > when I want to start the squeeze box. My old pc had some wake on LAN > setting, which was cool. Now so for the new pc. Hope fully I can figure > out a solution. > I use a low power device and leave it on all the time. Needed for remote access anyway. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
