x-cimo;437634 Wrote: > Hello :) I just bought a Squeezebox duet, and its on the way. > > But I am wondering about one thing. > > Is there anyway I could use Squeeze Center to stream music to a web > browser from my home network to another location, such as Work. And be > able to control what get played from that remote location. > > I know it's not what's its made for, but I think it would do a better > job than all the webbased music streamer I found so far.. > > Thanks
Actually, this IS one of the things it's designed to do.. Here's one of my previous write-ups. It has more detail than the current Wiki: > > Shredder;302232 Wrote: > > I should know how to do this, but cannot figure it out. I would love to > > stream my music collection from my Thecus 5200 NAS (located in my > > house) to my computer at work. How is that accomplished? > > > > Also, I would love to be able to stream to an iPhone. Is that possible > > and if so, how? > > > > ANy assisatance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > General steps.. assuming you have a cable/adsl connection (and winders) > and that your SC machine is connected to the cable/dsl box WITHOUT a > router/wireless access point in-between... > > Most cable setups give you a "static" (unchanging IP address) and many > phone companies DSL automatically give you a "static" address when you > have higher speeds. > > 1. at the home computer, open a browser and go to www.whatismyip.com. > Write down this "external IP address." > > 2. open a command window and type > ipconfig <enter> > write down the IP address and the default gateway (assuming you are on > the machine running SC.) > > 3. in a browser window key http://default gateway address <enter> > Mine is > http://192.168.0.111 > This should display the configuration screen for your cable/dsl modem. > This is the tricky part because there are so many different models. > I've used Netopia and Westell (ATT) modems so I'll give you them as an > example.. > > 4. You will be looking for NAT setup. In my modems you go to expert > mode/configure/NAT. > > BACKGROUND: what we want to do is to tell the modem that when it sees > business from the "outside" world (internet/work) on a particular PORT > number, forward that traffic to the SC machine. There are two ports > involved, TCP 9000 and TCP 3483. "Default" behavior for these modems is > to reject ANY inbound traffic from the internet that hasn't been > requested by a computer on the "inside". This is a good thing, > preventing the outside world from seeing the network in your home. > > In my netopia, I have to "define" a service (as port forwarding, range > of ports) from ports 9000 through 9000 to base port 9000. Then I do the > same for port 3483. > > When I tell the modem to "enable" these services, it asks which > computer address I want them to be sent to. Here you enter the IP > address from the ipconfig screen (the address of the machine that is > running SC.) Some modems may let you fill this info into a form rather > than having a two-step process and some modems will show the names of > the machines in addition to IP addresses when you select the target. > > 5. go here http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php and download > lame. This is the code that will compress your music on-the-fly as you > play it remotely. Put LAME.EXE in > C:\program files\squeezecenter\server\bin\mswin32-x86-multi-thread > You don't need the .DLL version. You'll know it's the right place > because it will have alac.exe, flac.exe, sox.exe, etc. > > 6. go to the outside world and open a browser, keying the address: > > http://<whatismyip>:9000 > where <whatismyip> is the "external IP address" from the earlier step. > > The http:// is very important if you are using a newer version of > Internet Explorer because they don't make a guess about which protocol > to use on non-standard ports (like 9000) > > If everything has been done right, you should see SC. If you don't, > it's possible that port 9000 is blocked by your IT people. Tough luck. > Try again from a public WiFi to see if you've got the configuration > right. > > 7. go to extras and install SoftSqueeze. > > 8. things may be ok at this point, but I would rename the SoftSqueeze > player and change it's Audio settings to about 128K. The Lame quality > setting you use depends on how fast your SC machine is ... > > 9. advanced diddling: run SoftSqueeze. open SC, select the SoftSqueeze > player and go to HELP/Server and Network Health. Pick a speed and the > results will be shown on the SoftSqueeze display and in SC. This is > testing the outbound speed of your home broadband connection. > > If you have a very fast connection at home, you can push this up but > REMEMBER... you'll also be sucking bandwidth from your employer's > inbound connection so it might be better to be reasonable (and not > attract attention...) Nice writeup. This needs to go on the wiki. dd -- pski ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65240 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
