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Wireless Music streaming from External HDD
Hi guys,
I have a question which I am struggling to get a definitive answer to - I have a lot of music on an external HDD and I want to stream this music over my home Wifi network, so I can play it through my Pure Jongo speakers (wirelessly). The Pure app, through which I want to play it from my phone can detect music streamed from a DLNA server, but obviously has to be on the same network as the home network. Problem is I am on Virgin, and Virgin Superhub2 does not have a USB socket, so I can't directly do this. I tried using a RavPower Filehub (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OIN292...ing=UTF8&psc=1), and though it can stream music, it shows up under its own Wifi network, and not on the home network, so my Pure app, and speakers, can't see the music. Anyone has any suggestions on how I can solve this cheaply, without buying a new router, or move all the music over to a new HDD? All I want is for a device to be able to read the music from the HDD and then stream the music on my home network. Any help will be greatly appreciated. |
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Location: Sandy Heath, Beds. UK
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It sounds like you need a NAS that supports DLNA. There are lots of those.
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But that would mean buying a NAS and not using the External HDD, which I am keen to keep.
Any cheap(ish) DLNA devices which will do the job? |
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The RavPower Filehub is a NAS which supports DNLA (although overkill for your application). If you haven't done this already connect it to the Virgin hub with a LAN cable and power cycle both devices. It should then be possible to stream from the Filehub via the Virgin hub's wifi. If not you will need to use your PC browser to access the web interface of the Filehub and change the settings manually.
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Have done it now, still not playing ball. I was previously trying the wireless connection. Any ideas what settings I will need to set?
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In the internet settings I set it to the wired settings (after connecting it by RJ45 to the router), which was fine. But the Wireless settings are still the original Filehub Wifi settings, and this is what it streams the music on.
How do I change it to stream on my home Wifi network? Do I change the Wifi settings to that of my Wifi network?Surely that is the wrong way to do it!! |
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