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Networks and Remotes => Media Network => Topic started by: wildcatknh on May 07, 2013, 12:11:04 pm

Title: XBox 360 connection to JRiver outside home network?
Post by: wildcatknh on May 07, 2013, 12:11:04 pm

Is it possible to connect to my media network on a friend's XBox 360 over the web from his house?  We want to be able to watch/listen to my media from there on his home theater, but he doesn't have anything connected to his system with an internet connection besides the XBox.  Any thoughts?

Title: Re: XBox 360 connection to JRiver outside home network?
Post by: bob on May 07, 2013, 03:47:23 pm

There doesn't seem to be a way to configure a manual entry on the Xbox. The only other possibility would be a proxy SSDP server. I looked into it once but it seemed pretty unsupported.

Title: Re: XBox 360 connection to JRiver outside home network?
Post by: bubbleguuum on May 08, 2013, 04:37:47 am

Quote from: bob on May 07, 2013, 03:47:23 pm

There doesn't seem to be a way to configure a manual entry on the Xbox. The only other possibility would be a proxy SSDP server. I looked into it once but it seemed pretty unsupported.

That should be possible using BubbleUPnP Server (http://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver/) running on the network MC runs, and BubbleUPnP Tether Client (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39637985&postcount=2946) running on the network the Xbox runs. I'm the developper of both programs. This will make MC appear to the Xbox as if it was a LAN server.

browse requests from the Xbox would follow this path:
XBox 360 >> BubbleUPnP Tether Client >> Internet >> BubbleUPnP Server >> MC

stream requests from the Xbox would follow this path:
XBox 360 >>  Internet >> BubbleUPnP Server >> MC

That should work with any media server that works with an Xbox 360.

Title: Re: XBox 360 connection to JRiver outside home network?
Post by: bob on May 09, 2013, 10:40:42 am

Very interesting bubbleguuum, so one would just have to port forward to the BubbleUPnP server on the remote lan. What port? Is there any way to prevent just anyone from connecting??

Thanks,
Bob

Title: Re: XBox 360 connection to JRiver outside home network?
Post by: bubbleguuum on May 09, 2013, 10:57:27 am

Quote from: bob on May 09, 2013, 10:40:42 am

Very interesting bubbleguuum, so one would just have to port forward to the BubbleUPnP server on the remote lan. What port? Is there any way to prevent just anyone from connecting??

Thanks,
Bob

Yes access is password protected (http digest authentication) and you can optionally use https to connect (in that case http is still used for stream requests but everything else is https).
As explained in the doc you need to open port 58050 (http) and 58051 (for https) on the machine running BubbleUPnP Server.

Title: Re: XBox 360 connection to JRiver outside home network?
Post by: wildcatknh on May 11, 2013, 08:01:55 am

Hmmm ... doesn't sound as easy as I'd hoped.  What you guys are talking about may be a little over my head.  With my Xbox 360 connected to the same network as my MC ... all that was needed was to enable the Xbox 360 under DLNA servers in MC and then browse away and play whatever on the Xbox.  I was hoping that I'd be able to do something like Gizmo does ... set up an access key and authentication and be able to browse my MC files from any XBox.

Guess I need to do some more research.

Thanks for the input.