Is it possible to use nmedium or nmedium play as a remote for a client? I have been able to play content on my phone or on my server pc but I have not been able to configure it to play content to my htpc witch is set up as a client to the pc server. Is that an option I'm missing?
Hi there,
There's 2 possible solutions I can see for your needs, the choice of which which will depend on your client PC setup.
Now, I'm assuming that you have J River on your 'server' and that it is that one that you are connecting to with nMedium? I'm also assuming that my 'remote control' you are only talking about media control...
(1)
If you have J River installed on your 'client' - you can set up your client J River to act as a 'DLNA Renderer' (Options > Media Network > Use Media Network... > Advanced > check 'DLNA Renderer').
If you don't have J River on the client, and you are running Windows 8, you can configure the client as a
DLNA renderer through Windows 8.
On your server, you need to configure J River as a DLNA controller (Options > Media Network > Use Media Network... > Advanced > check 'DLNA Controller')
Though the magic of DLNA, your server J River installation should now be able to see your client as a 'Zone' - any zones that appear in J River will appear in nMedium.
I must admit, I have never used this setup, so I'm not sure if the DLNA protocol allows tagging/rating files to a renderer...
(2)
If you do have J River on your client, you can also configure Media Network on that; and then add a second server in nMedium (via the settings screen).
Although nMedium does support multiple servers, it's a little clunky at the moment (currently there's a bug that changing servers requires a restart of nMedium).
If this option 2 is the best for you, I'll do some work on making multi server support a little more streamlined (I can probably add the multiple servers into the Zone selector which will make it all very simple to switch).
Let me know how you go!