2011-02-22, 23:32
I played around with twonky mobile (for android). Works really good in almost every area when using XBMC (v10) as both server and playback target.
check it out here, it's free:
http://twonky.com/products/twonkymobile/default.aspx
It can use XBMC as server and player, so you can browse the XBMC video and music libraries, select a song or album and it will play it on XBMC.
It can also be used with your phone as server and XBMC as player, so you can playback music that resides on your phone on XBMC!
Real awesome, but two things I wasn't able to do though and I was hoping to get some answers here how I can solve this:
1. I can create a music playlist and that plays fine, except when my phone turns off. Then after the current track finishes, it doesn't proceed to the next track, even though "Transfer active queue" (not sure if this is translated properly as I'm not using the English language) is enabled in the player settings. I'm not sure if this is a twonky or XBMC thing. It looks like XBMC only accepts one song at a time and when this song finishes it needs to ask the twonky-app what the next song is it should play.
By the looks of the "Transfer active queue" settings, it seems like the twonky-app can send a complete playlist, but apparently XBMC doesn't accept this...
2. I've set up my phone to be the source for pictures and XBMC as playback target. Although I see XBMC is doing something (e.g. it switches to the pictures UI), I don't see the actual picture. Instead I get an error message on my android "Could not stop playback". If I look at the debug log file it looks perfectly fine. Looks like XBMC is indeed showing a picture, but for a fraction of a second. Again here, I don't know if this is XBMC not working correctly, or if it's the Twonky-app, or perhaps they just don't like each other that much...
If anyone wants to test and see if he gets similar results or perhaps someone with deeper UPnP knowledge can look into this, I'd be very grateful!
check it out here, it's free:
http://twonky.com/products/twonkymobile/default.aspx
It can use XBMC as server and player, so you can browse the XBMC video and music libraries, select a song or album and it will play it on XBMC.
It can also be used with your phone as server and XBMC as player, so you can playback music that resides on your phone on XBMC!
Real awesome, but two things I wasn't able to do though and I was hoping to get some answers here how I can solve this:
1. I can create a music playlist and that plays fine, except when my phone turns off. Then after the current track finishes, it doesn't proceed to the next track, even though "Transfer active queue" (not sure if this is translated properly as I'm not using the English language) is enabled in the player settings. I'm not sure if this is a twonky or XBMC thing. It looks like XBMC only accepts one song at a time and when this song finishes it needs to ask the twonky-app what the next song is it should play.
By the looks of the "Transfer active queue" settings, it seems like the twonky-app can send a complete playlist, but apparently XBMC doesn't accept this...
2. I've set up my phone to be the source for pictures and XBMC as playback target. Although I see XBMC is doing something (e.g. it switches to the pictures UI), I don't see the actual picture. Instead I get an error message on my android "Could not stop playback". If I look at the debug log file it looks perfectly fine. Looks like XBMC is indeed showing a picture, but for a fraction of a second. Again here, I don't know if this is XBMC not working correctly, or if it's the Twonky-app, or perhaps they just don't like each other that much...
If anyone wants to test and see if he gets similar results or perhaps someone with deeper UPnP knowledge can look into this, I'd be very grateful!