Squeezecenter over Windows network

[mark12356]

Hi all,
I am running SqueezeCenter on a PC with Windows Home Server, which is sending to my Transporter via an Ethernet cable. The Transporter is configured to act as a WiFi relay, so I can send files to the server from my office PC. So far so good.

I can drive SqueezeCenter from my office PC using Remote Desktop, and this works fine, but I would like to use a Netbook PC instead. If this is running Windows, I could use the same technique: I would just run Remote Desktop as now.

But how about if the Netbook is running Linux? Can I drive SqueezeCenter through a web browser running on a Linux machine connected to the same network? If so, how?
Many thanks,
Mark

[Mnyb]

A web browser is a web browser regardless of OS, this IS why SC is managed remotely via web-UI access the server with anything with a browser.

No need to use remote desktop

Just type in the usual address for your server in the browser (don't forget the firewall if applicable port 9000 must not be blocked)

http://< your server> :9000

i use fixed ip's for my server so my squeeze web UI simply has http:// followed by the servers ip address then :9000

[mark12356]

That does the trick, thank you.
Mark

[w3wilkes]

Interesting, I had just had this idea today on my home network. I thought that I could just do http://<Squeezecenter PC IP address>:9000 to control SqueezeCenter from any PC on my home network. It works like a champ! I have a stereo and PC in the basement with a Squeezebox receiver and the same in the main living room. The Duet remote is always upstairs. I was in the basement and was to lazy to go upstairs. I plugged in the IP of the music server PC with port 9000 and low and behold I was in control! This is a fantastic byproduct feature of SqueezeCenter being a web app. If you set your Squeezecenter main PC to have a static IP on your home network you can bookmark it in the browsers of the other PC's on your home network! This feature should be documented and added to the user manual.

Wilkes

[radish]

This is a fantastic byproduct feature of SqueezeCenter being a web app.

It's not a byproduct of it being a webapp, it's one of the most important reasons _why_ it's a webapp. You're not limited to PCs - use your phone, games console, PDA, anything with a browser.

[mark12356]

I agree that these features could be better documented.

I personally thought that being able to use the Transporter as a WiFi repeater was a bit of a gimmick until I realised it would allow me to link its Ethernet-connected file server to my network wirelessly.

And although I guessed that in principle a web browser interface to SqueezeCenter would allow me to drive it from any networked web browser, I didn't know how to do it. (Hence this thread)

But it's great gear and I'm very pleased with it.
Mark

[Teus de Jong]

If only people did read manuals. Although the Transporter manual is very short, this info is on page 14/15.

Teus

[mark12356]

I have my Transporter manual open in front of me, at page 20, which covers "Using Transporter as a Wireless Bridge" It tells me very clearly how to set up the Transporter as a bridge, but does not tell me why I might want to do that.

Perhaps your manual is different from mine since the page numbers you quote are different, and perhaps therefore the manual has indeed been improved since mine was published..

In hindsight of course, it is clear, but as I said, I thought it was a useless gimmick until I worked out for myself what it could be used for. Up until then I had simply thought that it meant the Transporter could extend the range of a wifi network, or link two such systems together.

Call me thick if you like, but I bet there are plenty of other people who would appreciate a bit more "why" with the "how"
Mark