N78 Home Media Server

Hi everyone, i recently purchased an N78 and have installed the Home Media Server software. since the N78 has WiFI and is a UPnP device, i was wondering if i could stream music from the phone to my computer and vice-versa? how do you do this, cos i can't seem to figure out the help in the program. (note also that i do not have a WiFI router, i just have the laptop that can tap into Wifi networks)

I believe that you do need a wireless router for it to be able to work.
See the link below to a thread from yesterday, it contains some useful links to the home media user guide and the home media server that you need.
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Home media server for mac, that you can also get to remotely. Any ideas? I am out of space on my macbook pro hard drive and appletv. Need some sort of media server for delivery to macs, ipods, ipads, etc. Any suggestions?

Hi,
I have been using my macbook pro as a home media server, hosting most content on the macbook with ipod touch, ipads, and appletv streaming/sharing content. I have run out of space on both the macbook pro and the apple tv and am looking to moving the content to a home media server. Any thoughts/suggestions? I'd like something that I can access remotely too. I have an old slingbox and also have a static IP address.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be most welcome!

Don't worry I've sorted it! I just had to turn off Reminders as well in iCloud. Calendar then worked fine, even when I turned Calendar and Reminders back on.

How to use iMac as remotely accessible home media server

First time poster, and thanks in advance for any help that any of you might be able to provide. -- Josh
I have a mid-2007 iMac, several AppleTVs and Apple mobile devices, and a 2014 Macbook Pro coming at the end of the week (more detailed info below). I have a roughly 1 TB library of movies, which are currently housed in an external hard drive attached to the iMac. When I'm on my home network, I'm able to stream all the movies to all of the AppleTVs, iPhones, and iPads, using iTunes and home sharing, with almost no problem. But, my family would like to access our movie library remotely, when at the airport, visiting family, etc.
I've researched various options, and am having a hard time parsing through some of the more technical information and figuring out what setup would work best. It seems to me that although I can't use my iMac as a second display for the new MacbookPro because of technical limitations on the iMac, I might still be able to use the iMac as a remotely accessible home media server. Running Plex on the iMac has been suggested, but I keep hearing conflicting information on whether the AppleTVs are compatible with Plex, and I've had trouble successfully forwarding ports several years ago when I played with Plex briefly. iTunes/home sharing is just so easy in terms of setup and reliability between Apple devices, in my experience. I looked into buying an AirPort Time Capsule, since I was looking into upgrading my router to support 802.11ac anyway (advice on that too?), but was told that neither the Time Capsule drive nor any drive attached to it would be remotely accessible. Back to my Mac seems like it might work for me to access my library remotely when using the MacbookPro, but not any of the mobile devices (which are more important to the kids), and I'm not sure what advantage a NAS drive would have over using the iMac (although this is where it starts getting a bit technical for me). Looked at OSX Server also, but not sure how that would interface with whatever additional components I need to get.
Thank you in advance for any help. I'm sure people have figured out a way to access their media libraries remotely, but for some reason I can't find a straight answer on how. I've included additional technical details about my setup below. Thanks again!!
iMac, 20-in, Mid 2007, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X 10.9.4, 250 GB storage
Macbook Pro w. Retina, 13-in, 2014, 2.6 GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 128 GB PCle-based Flash Storage
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Not really recommended to do what you want as the perfomance will be undesirable and make the experience lousy at best. If you have content you want to watch remotely then simply copy it to a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro and then bring one of the AppleTV's with you. Then you can stream directly from the MBA or MBP to the AppleTV on a remote TV. We did this on our last vacation, loaded a bunch of movies on my MBA, threw one of the ATV's in the suitcase and when we got to our hotel simply connected it using the hotels Wi-Fi and connected the ATV via HDMI to the TV and we were in business.

N80 & HOME MEDIA SERVER, HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY GOT I...

Has anyone actually got their N80 to connect to thier pc's using the Simple server home media server software, if so what firmware have you got on your phone and what access point / wireless router are you using ?.
My N8- connects to my network just fine and can browse the internet just fine too, and I can also query my N80 using a upnp test program and it shows up just fine using that so it shows the upnp is not getting blocked by anything, but some some reason it just will not show up in the Pc software and when you try to connect to the pc with the N80 all you get is searching for devices..........
When I quey the phone with the test program I get :
Description: Multimedia Device
DeviceType: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1
FriendlyName: N80
Manufacturer: Nokia
ManufacturerUrl: http://www.nokia.com/
ModelName: Nokia N80
ModelNumber:
ModelURL: http://www.nseries.com/
PresentationUrl:
SerialNumber:
UDN: uuid:f0086e4c-f219-10e0-ae0f-0016BC7B14C
UPC:
So it seems to be working......

its late and i have not read your post in full (too bad).
if you've got the server installed (plus UPnP enabled on your router) you should see your phone. if the server can see it you will see a large picture of the N80 there, check the tabs. if you can't do anything with it (like i experienced initially), make sure you got into your actual phones home network sharing settings. i have to share the phones contents each time i use the sever. this finally makes the server see the phones contents as it displays additional tabs once properly connected (i.e. copy to device, copy from device).
give that a go.

Home media server

Hi
could someone please tell me where can i download the Nokia Home Media Server from... I got the disk with my N95 8 GB but my DVD Drive is not working so i can't install it from there... plus I also tried installin that simple centre but that's really slow...
Is there any place I can download the home media server from...????
Thanks in advance

Is there a ban on all mention of the Home Media Server ??? I have not yet found one single explanation of what it really is, or does, how to find and download it. Was it once part of Ovi Suite? Is it a rebadged piece of software???
I have an E72 with dlna and wnat to use it to show images on my 24" PC screen - a pretty logical thing to do, I should have thought!?
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Problrm with Home Media Server

Hi,
I have problem wit Home Media Server). When I want to synce something it stops on 0%.I can weit a bit but it helps not.It showes me that the synce is complete but nothings in my computer.
When I want tu transfer music than it finds the server and everythings fine but whit pictures it showes me that he cant find a server. My phone model is 5630 Xpress Music

I upgraded my Nokia Home Media Server by downloading and installing Simplecenter 4.2 (available at several download sites, just google for it). When I switched on Home Media Server on my N95-1, Simplecenter recognised it immediately.
I can now browse files on my PC from my N95-1, select a photo, video or music file and play it on the phone. (Remembering to select Options - Play On Device, otherwise the file details appear on my phone but it actually appears/plays on the PC!).
Operating from the PC doesn't seem to work though: I can't get Simplecenter to show the files on the phone. If I select Device - Copy From Device (which should produce a list of files on the phone), Simple Center scans and then tells me I have "0 items", - whereas in fact my phone has over 2000 tracks!
It is rather slow at finding files and to transferring them. It is unable to connect to the internet (to access Simplecenter's Music Store and find the list of supported devices).
I do wish Nokia would solve this connectivity problem by releasing their Home Music Manager device which streams over wi-fi, connecting your phone to your hi-fi, TV, PC and the internet. This device has been shown in Nokia's online store for over a year, unpriced and unavailable.
Golux

HP Home Media Server

Having trouble connecting my Macbook Pro Wirelessly to my HP Home Media Server. Any help for this?

That error means that the OS is returning an error saying that the disk is full.
Most likely this is a problem with the server software, or your local system.
But saving locally and copying is your best bet.

Home Media Server - Error Loading Supported Device...

I have recently installed the Home Media Server application that came on the DVD with my N82, onto my PC.
However, I am unable to 'see' my N82 as a device. When I select, Add new Devices I get an error message stating 'Error loading Supported Devices - please check your internet connection.
I thought that this may be a Firewall issue but Home Media Server is listed in my Firewall as accepted.
Any thoughts would be appreciated
History: Always Nokia since 1994 including Nokia 2140, 7110e, 6150, 6210, 6310i, 6230i, N82
Current: Nokia N8 (Anna - I have no intention of going to Belle) - and delighted with it!

Have you tried searching the forum? I remember quite a few people had this problem a few years ago.
Make sure you search the entire forum, not just the N series board as I think the answer is in one of the other more appropriate boards.
Use the keywords "home media server". Answers that apply to other models like the N95 should also apply to the N82.

Home media server formats?

Hi, does anyone know what formats can be used when playing back home media server content on the N95?
Solved!
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I never had much success with it on my N95, but from memory the only sharing I could manage was photo's !
Hopefully someone can give you better help/advice !
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HP Media Server or MacMini for home media server

I am torn between the new HP media server with Windows Home server or a MacMini for my home server.
Can anyone provide insight on which would be better?
I am looking to store all my media, data on either one. I.E. Pictures, Music/Video - to stream to AppleTV etc.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I know you have already marked the question as solved, but if you are still torn between the HP or Mac Mini here is what I did.
Although the HP has more storage space, I went for the Mac Mini option because; the foot print is smaller if you want to put under a TV, it uses less electricity and I felt Mac OSX was a more stable platform to work with.
The Mac Mini use a 2.5" Sata drive, so you are limited in upgrading past 320GB. There is a 2.5" 500GB drive out however I don't know if it will fit as when I read about it six months ago the article said it is slightly thicker, but I could be wrong.
To get around the problem of storage space, I attached a 1TB SATA hard drive via Firewire, which cost about £120. Although there are cheaper 1TB hard drives around, I went for one with an Oxford Chipset as it is always going to be on and I didn't want it to fry out.
I connect to the Mac Mini remotely to manage it. It's dead easy to set up file sharing, and I ended up giving my brother and dad there own storage space that they can log into with a username and password. One uses XP and the other uses Leopard.
The other great thing is you can configure iTunes and system preferences to automatically rip a CD or DVD and add it to the library then eject automatically when it is done. This may be obvious but it is incredibly useful feature, as it saves having to rip it on your personal computer then transferring the files.
The streaming capability of the Intel Core Duo is really good, so far we have been able to get it to stream to the AppleTV, 2 MacBooks and 1 Sony Vaio, while converting an avi movie to MP4 through Visual Hub, it might be able to handle more iTunes streaming we just ran out of computers to test it with.
Hope this helps in any decision making.

OSX LION SERVER on Mac Mini for a home media server?

Would a Mac Mini with Mac OS X Lion Server be a good alternative for a home multi media movie server?
Has anyone done this?
If so please give advice or success stories vs. HP Home Media Smart Server (i added a link to the HP server)
http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/mediasmart/ex.html
I would really rather use a Mac product but not sure what Apple offers and if it will do the same or better than the HP Media Smart Server.
Again, any advice would be great.
Cheers,

It would make a great server. Bonus over Apple TV for example is that you have access via both wired ethernet and wireless. Plus if you load tools from XBMC, Firecore and others you have a significant media server. Cost is right too.
Many people are doing this - google mac mini media server or other for more info.
Total downside to any windows based system - dealing with constant anti-virus, major security hassels, lack of true media integration and PITA to update, etc.
You should be aware that Lion Server is not ready for prime time - it stil has significant issues if you are migrating from SNL 10.6.8. If you buy an apple fresh Lion Server mac mini you should have no problems.
You'll probably be pleased.

Music stream from pc (home media server) to n80

Hi
I have successfully connected my N80 over wlan to my pc. i can copy music to my mobile over the wlan using the media server... But is ist also possible to play music wich is stored on my pc on my N80, without copying it to the phone. I mean something like a stream? Just read the file...
Thanks from Switzerland,
Leon

I have successfully streamed orb to my work PC but cant get this RealPlayer on the n80 to work.
I think there is a problem with the current firmware for RealPlayer streaming, it cant be this difficult to do it.
Steve
Current Nokia: N80 Black! & 6300 Black!, Next nokia: N96 Previous Nokias: 6230i, 8310,8210,7210,6210,6110,6100,3310 and 2110!
If I worked for Nokia, I would try and make things work correctly! ;-)

Using airport exrpess in home media server

I have an interesting question. I have an xbox 360, which just got support to play mp4 and h.264 files through a usb2 connection (or streaming, but there's no mac support yet). I've been thinking of buying a 1tb mybook drive and ripping my dvd collection with visualhub or handbreak, to display through the 360. What's the best way to create a network, possibly using the networked hard drive feature in airport extreme?
I know i could hack an apple tv, but i already own a 360 so that seems like a cheaper solution.
Thanks in advance.

Your question is a bit unclear, but here's a go at it: Mac mini's make pretty good media servers, but just what you can stream depends on other devices attached to the network. For example, all of the media types you mentioned could be streamed to another mini, or other mac. You could also stream to xBox, windows pc, or linux machine. Each of these would have their own limitations. You could stream video and music to an AppleTV, and you could stream music only via an Airport using AirTunes.
The main limitations using mini as media server have to do with storage. I was using mini to stream movies, but because of space and storage limits, upgraded to a used Mac Pro. Yes the Mac Pro takes up more space than the mini, but I only use one power cord with the Mac Pro to give 5Tb of hard drive space, while doing this with the mini would take several external drives or an external RAID. Long term I can foresee expanding to 20+terabytes of hard drive space - this is beyond mini's capabilities. I will try to give better answer if you clarify your exact needs a bit more.

Firewire or USB for Home Media Server

I have an iMac (2008) that I am going to use as an iTunes server for streaming to AppleTV. Since the iMac only has a 320GB drive, I am planning on buying a new external hard drive to which I will transfer all of my media, which I will always leave connected to the iMac (I will just point the iMac's library to the media on the drive).
My question is whether I should consider FireWire 800 or USB 2.0 as the external drive. I know most macs these days no longer come with FireWire, and in the case that I end up getting a new computer in the next year or two, I'd rather have a drive that utilizes USB 3.0 and have that faster option in the future.
That being said, if the stream quality to the AppleTV is going to be so poor that I hate it (using the USB 2.0), then I would consider a FireWire 800. Does anybody have any experience with this?
Also, it should be noted that all of my devices will be wired to the local home network (not wireless).
Thanks for the advice.

Personally, I don't think it matters. FireWire 800 is capable of almost 800 Mb per second and while USB 2 is theoretically capable of 480 Mb per second it only has an effective throughput of 280 Mb per second. If you have other uses for this drive, the difference between FireWire and USB may well be worth considering, however if you are just going to use it for movies to play to your Mac/Apple TV, you should remember that these movies will need no more than 10 Mb per second in order to play without issue.

My finder won't open and my crashes all the time since i install an iomega home media server.....help!

My finder keeps crashing and documents etc won't show sometimes when it does open. The problems have recently started following the installation of an iOmega Home Server......help

You might want to take your question to the iOmega website. The probability that someone here has both that server AND uses the MacBook pro is quite small, whereas the iOmega website selects for those who have the device and own a Mac OSX computer.

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