Does anyone know why are wifi hdd's limited to just media and won't transfer regular files?
WiFi hard disk drive...? What is that?
Amazon search shows....
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Satellite-Wireless-External-STBF500101/dp/B004Z0S7K6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1349809845&sr=8-5&keywords=WiFi+hard+disk+drive
I've been reading internet sites for ages trying to find out what protocol these use for accessing the filesystem over wifi (for instance, do they use SMB?) and for all my searching, it appears that you can't! All you can do is watch videos on the device through their proprietary app or a web browser, to access their crappy web interface. No direct filesystem access, no SMB, no copying or editing files on it, and (probably) no opening videos in your preferred video player app.
To actually access the files on the thing, you have to plug in to the USB port.
I'd always assumed that a "Wifi hard drive" meant you could access the drive over wifi, connecting to it like a Windows share.
It looks very much like this isn't the case. Somebody please tell me wifi hard drives aren't this useless!
MercuryStar said:
I've been reading internet sites for ages trying to find out what protocol these use for accessing the filesystem over wifi (for instance, do they use SMB?) and for all my searching, it appears that you can't! All you can do is watch videos on the device through their proprietary app or a web browser, to access their crappy web interface. No direct filesystem access, no SMB, no copying or editing files on it, and (probably) no opening videos in your preferred video player app.
To actually access the files on the thing, you have to plug in to the USB port.
I'd always assumed that a "Wifi hard drive" meant you could access the drive over wifi, connecting to it like a Windows share.
It looks very much like this isn't the case. Somebody please tell me wifi hard drives aren't this useless!
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I've been wondering same thing also. I truly hope they are more capable.
Upon further investigation I've found various "hacks" or "modifications" to enable SMB support on some of these drives:
http://www.tools4movies.com/2012/07/seagate-goflex-satellite-wifi-samba-modification/
http://www.hackseagatesatellite.com/wordpress/welcome/
Not that I necessarily recommend modifying a device, but if you find yourself burdened with such a limited device you may as well try and make something of it. Just don't blame me - or XDA - if something goes wrong.
If you were able to do something like this, dear OP, you would be able to connect to the drive using an SMB-compatible file manager, available from the play store such as ES File Explorer (though I quite like AndroXplorer).
MercuryStar said:
I've been reading internet sites for ages trying to find out what protocol these use for accessing the filesystem over wifi (for instance, do they use SMB?) and for all my searching, it appears that you can't! All you can do is watch videos on the device through their proprietary app or a web browser, to access their crappy web interface. No direct filesystem access, no SMB, no copying or editing files on it, and (probably) no opening videos in your preferred video player app.
To actually access the files on the thing, you have to plug in to the USB port.
I'd always assumed that a "Wifi hard drive" meant you could access the drive over wifi, connecting to it like a Windows share.
It looks very much like this isn't the case. Somebody please tell me wifi hard drives aren't this useless!
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I bought one of the goflex wifi hdd and returned it because in my opinion they are that useless.
I find the goflex satellite drive quite useful, although I only got it for streaming videos to my tablet. Did my research and knew this going in.
If anyone is wondering, it uses a UPNP protocol, I only use their own app for setting password etc. I use either BubbleUPNP or Media House UPNP (kinda of like Mizuu in using a good Gui with movie poster art, but with some network support).
May hack it at some point though as would like to be able to write files to the drive from my Android devices.
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Looking at the tutorial for installing SMB, it seems extremely easy and I think I might just buy one of those drives and do that. It will take 15 minutes and once done you get a great portable drive that does nnot require USB connectivity.
Szadzik said:
Looking at the tutorial for installing SMB, it seems extremely easy and I think I might just buy one of those drives and do that. It will take 15 minutes and once done you get a great portable drive that does nnot require USB connectivity.
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If you do please keep us informed.
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Hi,
I have a question. I have acces from my phone (legend) to my pc through ES file explorer via Wifi (shared folders on both sides). I also have approx 100gb mp3s and i don't wanna tranfsef few of them everytime i wanna listen something. here's my question. can i stream music on my hdd (pc) to my phone while they're connected with wifi ? es explorer gives my only a 50sec sample when tap "play". i should add that pc is connected to lan with cable not with wifi adapter. great thanks for help
seereek said:
Hi,
I have a question. I have acces from my phone (legend) to my pc through ES file explorer via Wifi (shared folders on both sides). I also have approx 100gb mp3s and i don't wanna tranfsef few of them everytime i wanna listen something. here's my question. can i stream music on my hdd (pc) to my phone while they're connected with wifi ? es explorer gives my only a 50sec sample when tap "play". i should add that pc is connected to lan with cable not with wifi adapter. great thanks for help
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- AudioGalaxy (free and easy)
- Subsonic (mostly free - server is becoming donation)
- CIFS Manager and whatever player you want because it'll mount as a virtual share on your SD card like ES does except it'll be accessable from any program as though it was right on your phone (only will work over wifi in most cases and you have to be using a device which has a cifs.ko module compiled specficially for it).
To start out -- id try audiogalaxy -- but its going to take a really long time to index a huge library -- FYI -- leave it overnight or something.
Edit -- without wifi whats the point? In that case Audiogalaxy works okay over mobile data out of the box -- subsonic will probably need port 80 forwarded from your router when you want to use it. They're going to consume a lot of mobile data though.
Lately I've been using CIFS Manager when on WIFI at home and Audiogalaxy for elsewhere. Cheers.
seereek said:
Hi,
I have a question. I have acces from my phone (legend) to my pc through ES file explorer via Wifi (shared folders on both sides). I also have approx 100gb mp3s and i don't wanna tranfsef few of them everytime i wanna listen something. here's my question. can i stream music on my hdd (pc) to my phone while they're connected with wifi ? es explorer gives my only a 50sec sample when tap "play". i should add that pc is connected to lan with cable not with wifi adapter. great thanks for help
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100GB of music? DAMN! lol
100Gig - I remember when my library was that small ;-)
I just wrote a review on Audiogalaxy and it's one of my review applications which is staying on my phone, so I'll also suggest trying it out. While the bitrate seems a little too low at the moment, it is just a beta and is still good enough quality for casual listening - That said, a lower bitrate is going to help keep costs down, should you wish to stream over mobile networks.
I'll agree, a large mp3 collection will take a while to fully index but a decent broadband connection will help that. It's also really easy to get started on audiogalaxy (took me under five minutes from first visit to the website, to playing my first track on the phone.)
thanks for help. i just saw today that Audiogalaxy is released, i think that'll do . Btw, i used to have about 550gb of music but sadly i had to erease my whole disk because of failure ;//
seereek said:
thanks for help. i just saw today that Audiogalaxy is released, i think that'll do . Btw, i used to have about 550gb of music but sadly i had to erease my whole disk because of failure ;//
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Bloody hell! You win! I lost around 350gig for the same reason and now have only around 290gig in raid (thankfully raid, I lost one of the disk set last year but no data for once!)
I have been hearing of some cloud like applications out there for push/pull of files to/from pc to android, so that may make another alternative, especially for offline usage. I'm thinking of implementing both because it makes far more sense to be able to access certain data remotely, rather than trying to figure out what I'll want syncing before I leave home.
Oh and if there isn't anything that quite fits the bill, perhaps it would make an excellent dev project for me.
Subsonic serves me and my terabyte of music very well (roughly half the teratyte is FLAC). The reason AudioGalaxy is not something for me is because I like to do everything folder-based, not via some database/index.
I am currently trying CifsManager too. But it appears my WiFi is pretty slow, so for streaming Subsonic's buffering/caching is much appreciated. Another advantage of Subsonic is that you can tell it exactly what and how you want stuff re-encoded. You can have it set up so that if you are on WiFi, it will automatically stream your MP3/FLAC at their own max quality. Then when you go off WiFi with your phone and want to listen over mobile data networks, it could stream it to you as 128kbps MP3 file for example (on-the-fly transcoded from for example your high-quality FLAC).
@jjwa - That's an excellent answer! Thanks for that, I think I need to take another look at Subsonic.
What im trying to do is to get my ps3 to connect to my androids as media servers. I am NOT looking for an app that connects to media servers- there are a ton of those on the market. I keep ALL my music on my android devices. I would like for them to BE the media server. Though, it seems there are few apps that do this.
I tried "Remote media!" From the market. It works up to the point where I go to listen to an mp3, then times out. Otherwise, my ps3 can connect to my android and display all the right folders. But there are some bugs with actually streaming the content. Didn't get it to stream once on either of my devices.
Does anyone know of such an app? Thanks for your help!
If your device has DLNA capabilities, you can use iMedia share from the market.
moonzbabysh said:
If your device has DLNA capabilities, you can use iMedia share from the market.
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I tried media, though it wasn't locating my media and seemed to be a bit bulky of an app with all the options of websites to stream to your tv. I mightily it again in a few, but really lookingbfor a simple clean app. I wish remote media would work.
Twonky Mobile - very bulky though.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pv.twonkyremote
Share Me - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sygem.android.shareme_free Worked okay from what I remember, but I didn't buy as I have all my stuff on my Nas - was just testing it out.
share me and remote media seem to work up to thebexact same point- until I click Olay. so this might indicate an issue that I can fix. But what issue? Upnp seems enabled on all devices. what else?
Any help?
Look out for an app called media server or something like this from Sony Ericsson. You won't find it in the market because it's one of the preinstalled apps on the Arc.
It has dlna capabilities too and worked for me when I tried to connect with my PC
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blarghle!
Im very frustrated. It seems this works properly, but there is some upnp error as far as I can guess.
I have newest firmware for router,
Enabled upnp on ps3,
Servers are running on EVO/jetstream,
Ps3 shows all folders, files, and even images from the gallery,
Images show with no problem,
When playing an mp3, it says data is corrupt, when it is not.
Halp >_>
I've exhausted my savvy knowledge to this point...
Hi. Try Skifta. It works well for me!
Check it in Android Market.
Afonsov
Air sync
Android device and PS3/Xbox need to be on the same wifi source.
Run air sync and you can share media to anything pretty much. Here ya go.
https://market.android.com/details?...5kb3VibGVUd2lzdC5hbmRyb2lkUGxheWVyUHJvS2V5Il0.
OK, So i have read the related pre-existing threads and none of them answer my question.
I have tried apps like Emit, Gmote, VLC stream & convert but none of them are able to play media on my phone. They basically act as remote control to play media of PC using mobile (Emit can stream videos & music but not pics). I want to play the media (including pics) available on my PC, on my phone. How do I do that? My phone is not rooted.
xdduser said:
OK, So i have read the related pre-existing threads and none of them answer my question.
I have tried apps like Emit, Gmote, VLC stream & convert but none of them are able to play media on my phone. They basically act as remote control to play media of PC using mobile (Emit can stream videos & music but not pics). I want to play the media (including pics) available on my PC, on my phone. How do I do that? My phone is not rooted.
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Motocast
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5tb3Rvcm9sYS5tb3RvY2FzdC5zdGFuZGFsb25lIl0.
This does what you are looking for, allows you to stream movies, music, and pictures... and allows you to download any file you have on your pc to your phone!
big ach said:
Motocast
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5tb3Rvcm9sYS5tb3RvY2FzdC5zdGFuZGFsb25lIl0.
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That was the first thing i tried. That is the worst choice. It requires internet to stream. Why do I need internet man? It's like if someone want to go to south america from north america, he goes to japan first, then antarctica, then south america. Thats the motocast way.
I mean, I have tethering and bluetooth. I want to use that to stream and not waste my precious internet bandwidth to stream things which I already have on PC.
i use file manager as well as zumocast. filemanager for me only works when im at home on wifi, so im not 100% sure if it uses data or not. click the network tap, scan for networks, and log in with the same user name and password that you use on your pc. you can also move files from your phone to your pc this way, and delete, move, and change files on your pc from your phone as well. full remote control.
I use TVersity. It allows your phone to view/stream anything you have in its library. With port forwarding set up and a static IP (i use No-IP) you can set it to stream either via wifi within your network, or remotely via your data or wifi connection if not at home. The navigation is a bit clunky but it streams nicely.
PS3Media Server on your computer with UPNPlay on your phone. Works great!
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That was the first thing i tried. That is the worst choice. It requires internet to stream. Why do I need internet man? It's like if someone want to go to south america from north america, he goes to japan first, then antarctica, then south america. Thats the motocast way.
I mean, I have tethering and bluetooth. I want to use that to stream and not waste my precious internet bandwidth to stream things which I already have on PC.
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I get what you're saying, you are trying to do so while home.
Wouldn't anything you use require internet? Lol whether wifi or mobile? Even a dlna manager would require internet.
I guess you are looking for a wireless Bluetooth transmitter. Not sure I can offer much help, sorry bud
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DLNA doesn't require internet, just a network. Streaming from PC shouldn't require any internet connection,as long as you're on the same network, obviously.
brandogg said:
DLNA doesn't require internet, just a network. Streaming from PC shouldn't require any internet connection,as long as you're on the same network, obviously.
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How do i use DLNA with Atrix 2? The atrix 2 website says following, but there is no app called DLNA or Media Share in my phone !!
"The ATRIX 2 offers two applications to help you share your media with other DLNA devices:
Media Share: The Media Share app is a DLNA connection wizard that will guide you through the easy setup steps for connecting your phone to other DLNA devices. If you're new to DLNA devices and how they work, start here. Media Share makes using the DLNA app simpler.
DLNA: This app lets you expand the ways you can enjoy your photos and videos on a DLNA Certified HDTV or monitor, using your own Wi-Fi network. The DLNA app is what enables your ATRIX 2 to connect to other DLNA devices"
When u go into the my music app and press the button to bring up the menu there it is dlna servers
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Just use ES Explorer, scan your PC IP, then type user name and password and you can access all of your partitions
I use UPnPlay for DLNA..since I am on Linux,I use Rygel on my linux desktop to add the folders to be visible in DLNA app.
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I just go my hands on a Rikomagic MKIII, and I'm looking to set up some sort of media server on my pc so I can stream all my videos on my tv easily. I've googled and tried a lot of solutions, since they're not in the same LAN the easiest one didn't really work for me (shared folder), so I started with an FTP-server on my PC, connecting to it in ES File Explorer and streaming the videos one by one. It was a working solution, but not really a good one. So I searched some more, found out about XBMC and Serviio. I have XBMC on my PC now, but I can't figure out how to share the files properly, if that's even possible, and the XBMC-app doesn't seem to work so I've put that idea on ice for now. Then I tried Serviio, set everything up, downloaded an app on the Rikomagic and that worked great, for 15 days, after which the server software requires a 25USD purchase.
My question then is, are there any better solutions for my problem? Serviio was the best one I've tried, but I'd prefer a free feature tbh, I'd rather not pay 25USD for a program that doesn't actually support Android, since the player-apps are fan-made.. I'm sure you realize what I'm looking for, just a solution where I can use my PC as a media server and play it on my android with ease. Doesn't have to be pretty, but I'd prefer if I could make a playlist on the android device (couldn't figure that out with the FTP server and MX player).
Hey,
I just got an MK808 TV Stick and I it's a pretty neat slick device. Like how small it is, and seems to be pretty fast (but, will probably flash some custom ROM on it soon).
Anyways, I want to use this as a replacement OS for my Smart TV and play Netflix/Hulu (have to root/market enabler to get this)/stream from my personal library, which is all shared on a raspberry pi PC via SMB. My Smart TV is DLNA compliant, but can't play all the different formats that I have accumulated over the years. My new stick TV PC, so far can handle it all.
Whats the best and easiest way to open files stored on SMB drives, and play them in a media play on my stick PC (right now, using VLC do to this). I say easy, in the sense that when my 6 year old kid wants to watch one of his movies he doesn't have to mount a drive via ES file explorer and choose what file from a list of directories like I am willing to do, but more of a "see the cover art, click and play" kind of way. I know XBMC would do most of this (if not all) but it only does software decoding, and I would like to have hardware.
Thanks in advance.
Ive got an ICUBE mk809II, i also have a NAS (nsa310) with my network share on. I use solid explorer and you can map to your network drive with that by adding an SMB share. Hopefully you have root. You can also then do a shortcut on the desktop by doing a solid explorer widget to that network share.
The second way i've used is to download a CIFS/SMB app, MountManager seemed the best, and you a can make a virtual link to your network share which is by default in your mnt folder. If you wanted to use your tv stick as a torrent box, you can map to the network share, and point Adownloader to the virtual link in the mount folder and it will get to your share. Its then easy to bookmark to your SMB/network share by doing a widget in Solid Explorer on your desktop. So with one click from the desktop, your there, I mainly use MX Player over VLC player as VLC was having audio sync problems.
colhavoc said:
but more of a "see the cover art, click and play" kind of way.
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Try MIZUU BETA .
Tried MX Player?
Did, played some of my content, but not all of it. VLC so far is working ok.
Anyone have any idea how to install Finless rom with this? Can't seem to find much information on how to flash it, just what its features are.
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zmaki said:
Try MIZUU BETA .
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Wow zmaki, that was the perfect choice! App works great for streaming from my SMB shares and shows the cotent like XBMC, except with decent rendering!
I have to admit though, I wish the program had its own built in media player with codec support, that would make it the cats ass.
PLEX works awesome, no problems with any streaming and it looks great.
colhavoc, welcome from hfx...
Hi,
The question here is the same issue I have wirh my new android miniPC to let my children (and even my self) an easy access to files stored on my PC.
My device is not rooted (not I'm goind to do so).
The device is conected over the same LAN (wi-fi is disabled).
I saw codlike two solutions ("solid explorer" or MountManager) but both need root, is there another solution?
dannygud said:
Hi,
The question here is the same issue I have wirh my new android miniPC to let my children (and even my self) an easy access to files stored on my PC.
My device is not rooted (not I'm goind to do so).
The device is conected over the same LAN (wi-fi is disabled).
I saw codlike two solutions ("solid explorer" or MountManager) but both need root, is there another solution?
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es file explorer?