Jim,
My initial inquiry stated " Is there some way your remote device allows you to see the JRiver screens on a remote monitor, so you can select music and do other things in JRiver? " I understand that you need a monitor at the computer, but my inquiry relates to a monitor or computer that sits across the room and allows you to wirelessly control CAPS2 and run JRiver.
As I indicated before, I use a laptop to control my CAPS2 server. Thus, it serves as my "remote monitor". However, running CAPS2 with JRiver from my laptop requires using Win7 remote, which in turn requires many Windows services (at least 20 indpendent and dependent services). It appears to me that extra windows services do in fact degrade the sound -- at least in my high resolution system -- so I am trying to pare the services down to an absolute minimum. My thinking is that using a remote that has infrared control (rather than using my home wireless network) would allow me to disable at least 20 more services.
I do not have an Ipad or Ipod. I doubt that an Ipod would allow me to see enough on their small screens to be feasible. Perhaps an Ipad would, but the threshold question is whether that would allow me to cut out the 20+ Win 7 services that are required for connecting to my CAPS2 via my home network. And, some other basic questions:
1) when you control a CAPS2 music server running JRiver via an Ipad, do you still need the HP remote device (or do you only need WebGizmo software installed on the CAPS2)?
2) If you do need the HP remote device, how does it physically connect to an Ipod (eg, via a USB port?)?
3) If I am able to use an Ipad, with Web Gizmo, will I be able to see the same JRiver screens (eg, playlists) that I now see on my laptop?
Thanks.
Dennis