Has anyone out there considered developing a new client for the Rio Receiver which would work with UPnP AV Media Servers? I'm very happy running my Receiver with tRio, but looking at the market most of the newer streaming devices seem to support this standard, and there are some interesting-looking third party servers - in particular TwonkyVision , which has just released a version running on the Linksys NSLU2 (a tiny, very cheap, hackable Linux-based File Server using USB disks).

The real attraction of this is that the Rio could co-exist with other devices with differing feature sets - integrated DVD / streaming receivers for the main TV, Netgear MP101 where you need integrated wireless, Rio where you need a built-in amp, all from the same library & server daemon (plus a standalone RioBoot to load the client in the first place).

There are at least two free SDKs which give a start to the heavy work - one from Intel (which may have some nasty licence implications) and one on SourceForge. Integrating this with the RioPlay or derived xplRionet code would produce a device which co-existed cleanly with other similar products whilst retaining the unique Rio advantages.

I recognise that UPnP AV is grossly over-engineered for something which is fundamentally simple, but it does look like the future....

Any interest?

Phil

Hmmm, this does look interesting. I'll try to find some time over the weekend to see how difficult it'll be to get tRio to work with this.

I use XP now at work (don't ask) and today Windows Update offered me the chance to download Windows Media Connect -- which is Microsoft's UPnP MediaServer server for Windows. Unfortunately it won't serve content from network drives, and the MP101 won't talk to it (though it gets further than it does with Cybergarage).

Peter

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Unfortunately it won't serve content from network drives

I had a similar problem with another app a while back. I couldn't confirm anywhere but, by any chance, does it runs as a service? If so, to access the network drives, you need to use a valid username/password for these in the Administration tools / Services / (Select service) / Properties / Login (I'm doing this by memory...)

Otherwise, service is run without username, well before you log in, so drives are not mapped.

For a bit more information about how Windows Media Connect is supposed to work this link is a guide for building compatible devices.

Phil

I found some time to play around with this on the weekend. Using a stand alone java program, I was able to browse my TwonkyVision (see http://www.twonkyvision.com/UPnP/index.html ) music server. This was using Satoshi's CyberLink library - it's so nice when software does what it says on the tin .

And so it shouldn't be too difficult to set up tRio as a Control Point (and Media Render) that'll play music from Media Servers on the local network. It'd take more effort to expose the induvidual receivers as Media Renderers so that they can be controlled by other (non tRio) Control Points.

The next step is to integrate that I did into tRio and try get it to play a tune off the server.

Cheers
Paul

I'd just pretty much made the decision to sell my Rio/Dell as I've now started acquiring UPnP devices. It must be said that installing TwonkyVision takes about 1% of the time taken to install jreceiver.

UPnP capabilities for the Rio would be really great. It really is the way that everything is going.

But won't the Rio need some other sevices running besides UPnP? The UPnP server should handle the SSDP but I guess you'll still need NFS. No problem for Linux but I'm not sure how to handle this bit on windows. (Not that I'm anything close to an expert!)

Regards

Ian