The show off your gadget integration thread.

[BenM77]

JD said:

So being silly here

Is it possible to listen to music from my PC (With iTunes) on my iPhone ?

Home sharing is excellent, it is the reason I bought a 16gb iPad instead of a bigger one.

As posted above, activate home sharing and have access to your whole library !

Settings/music enter apple ID in home sharing and away you go

[Melvin Udall]

I have a smallish playlist for when out and about, but the majority of stuff I do in the home is streamed from my unibody.

[page3]

NAS box for bit-torrent / backups
NAS box for media server
Mac Mini running XBMC (with iPlayer mod) outputting to TV and/or projector (via cat-6) and bridged wirelessly via Airport Express to Airport Extreme
Sonos Zonebridge / Play:3 / ZP90 into AV Amp / iDock
Sonos Controller / iPad
iPhone for me
iPhone for wife
iPhone for three year old
Wireless printer with AirPrint
Freeview HD box, hacked with media server/FTP (Humax)
Hacked TiVo now being retired

Think that's about it. Working quite well although I'd like to integrate a couple of remote-controlled plug sockets.

[JD]

Melvin Udall said:

Yes. Enable home sharing, and in the iPod bit, go to shared. You can access the music there.

Thanks so much!

I had enabled it on my pc, so the remote aspect worked, had no idea I had to do it the other way around!

Awesome! all of my music in the shower! woop!

[vladcjelli]

Can't afford Apple kit, so been making it up as I go along.

Dell gx260 bought from an office reclamation type place (£40). Put an hdmi graphics card in it (£30), so it can sit under my tv for streaming flicks and music. Currently running Ubuntu and boxee since windows died on it. Not the fastest PC, probably never going to be able to run a Bluray drive, but for now it does the job.

AC Ryan hdmini2 (£70) in the bedroom for lazy streaming duties. Got a couple of scavenged hard drives connected to this, which allows them to be accessed as network drives by anything on the network.

Acer laptop, also with hdmi for anything else, it fills in any gaps throughout the house.

Have downloaded a number of Android apps for my Desire which allow control of things like spotify, grooveshark and especially 2-player which controls DLNA devices across the network. A bit like Airplay I imagine.

Any suggestions for the next stages of development, continuing the bargain ethos?

ETA Forgot my HP wireless printer sitting in the cupboard.

Edited by vladcjelli on Sunday 16th October 18:30

[Tycho]

Iomega iconnect with a 500Gb USB HDD and Canon printer attached. The iConnect will stream to my PS3, phone and Tab. I sync my laptop with it and can access all my files and schedule torrents over the net.

It isn't the highest end bit of kit but you can use any spare USB drives and pick the iConnect up from PC World for £29 and it'll act as an iTunes server.

[BenM77]

@page3

Nice!

iPhone for 3year old ?!!

My 2 year old loves my old iPod touch

Ben

[Podie]

4 disk RAID NAS (3TB) - media server (video & pictures), full network access etc
Mac Mini (i7) with dual screens
FireWire 800 dual-SATA (1TB) RAID 0 box (for working files / Time Machine)
2x 1TB HDDs for offsite backup
Squeezebox Classic
Sony surround sound
Sony Internet TV (DLNA so talks to NAS)
Sky HD (feeds other TVs in the house)
Dell Zino (W7) kitchen PC
Dell Inspiron laptop
iPhone (his n hers)
iPad (his n hers)
Wireless printer with AirPrint

iOS devices can control the TV, surround and Squeezebox as well as Mac Mini iTunes.

Probably forgotten something....

[sharpfocus]

I've got a Mac Mini (running Linux) connected to my TV. Wake/Suspend it via shortcuts on my android phone or MacBook Air over the 802.11n wifi connection.

The Mac Mini runs Boxee, plenty of 1080p content stored on my NAS. Apple TV remote to control most things but wireless keyboard and mouse kept for internet browsing / iPlayer etc. Apps on the phone allow me to use that as keyboard/mouse/Boxee remote too. Scripts to send torrents from any machine to the Mac Mini which runs them between midnight and 8am for free bandwidth usage.

[page3]

BenM77 said:

@page3

Nice!

iPhone for 3year old ?!!

My 2 year old loves my old iPod touch

Ben

Keeps him off the iPad. Actually I lie, he monopolises that too

His iPhone is my original 2G sans sim. My wife got my 3GS and I now have the 4S

[page3]

sharpfocus said:

I've got a Mac Mini (running Linux)

Interested as to why you run Linux for boxee rather than osx?

[page3]

sharpfocus said:

I've got a Mac Mini (running Linux)

Interested as to why you run Linux for boxee rather than osx?

[page3]

sharpfocus said:

I've got a Mac Mini (running Linux)

Interested as to why you run Linux for boxee rather than osx?

Clearly I am VERY interested, enough to post three times!

Edited by page3 on Sunday 16th October 20:08

[BenM77]

page3 said:

Keeps him off the iPad. Actually I lie, he monopolises that too

His iPhone is my original 2G sans sim. My wife got my 3GS and I now have the 4S

It's good recycling my two year old has my old iPod and loves angry birds etc, he also likes all the music videos which is fine until he air plays to the zeppelin at full blast !

Ben

[matts4]

Quick question about apple tv.....

I appreciate it can stream apple content from my iTunes on my PC which I have purchased or rented, but if I want to stream AVI files from my cam corder etc, to my TV, which are not in iTunes, will I need to convert them first?

Thanks

[Melvin Udall]

Yes, you will need to convert them, unless you have an idevices, and the app airvideo, in which case you can convert on the fly and send it to the apple Tv.

[matts4]

By iDevices, do you mean a specific bit of hardware?

I have an ipad2 if that helps?

[Melvin Udall]

matts4 said:

By iDevices, do you mean a specific bit of hardware?

I have an ipad2 if that helps?

iDevice = any mobile apple device. iPod, iPhone, iPad will do. Download airvideo, and you can stream with live conversion to either your iPad, (over the Internet if you want, at a friends house, hotel, etc), or to your apple.TV.




You can also convert from the comfort of your sofa if you want to.

[matts4]

Awesome! Thank you.

[BenM77]

@vlad

Apple is quite a cheap way to network if you have an iPhone anyway, appletv = £100. iTunes is free and with airvideo you are not tied to apple content

What you have put together is very cool, especially sticking to a budget

Ben