Hi,
I know this question or similar has been asked many times before, but now that mobile streaming is all the rage with the hip young kids, I was wondering if someone has come up with a solution...
I've been doing some searching and tested 2 other products that allow secure External Streaming- i.e. Tonido & SubSonic, on both VortexBox as well as native Windows installs of both these products.
Tonido is nice because the service proxies the stream (+1 for that)
SubSonic relies on a port forwarding setup within your router (it tries to do it for you via UPNP). Not really a fan of that.
Both of there products use HTTPS, well the SubSonic setup of this is a manual process :(.
Since we all know (cough..) that we should NEVER expose the LMS server directly to the Internet, I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a solution (software and/or services stack) to allow our favorite mobile players to connect to LMS like the Tonido & Subsonic players can.
If it matters, I've also tested encapsulating the LMS servers HTTP stream via 'stunnel', and can get to LMS without issue this way, including the ../stream.mp3 method of playing tunes.
Are there any others options that should be looked at? Mobile apps that setup a lighter weight proxy tunnel, rather than a full blown VPN connection?
Would this take both a server-side component (Could this be done with a plugin?) and would the players need modifications also?
Has anyone overcome these challenges yet?
Obviously, the best option would be something that fully encapsulates LMS, with features like:
I for one would LOVE to have Pippin of iPeng fame build this missing piece, and then charge a small annual fee for access ;)
I know this question or similar has been asked many times before, but now that mobile streaming is all the rage with the hip young kids, I was wondering if someone has come up with a solution...
I've been doing some searching and tested 2 other products that allow secure External Streaming- i.e. Tonido & SubSonic, on both VortexBox as well as native Windows installs of both these products.
Tonido is nice because the service proxies the stream (+1 for that)
SubSonic relies on a port forwarding setup within your router (it tries to do it for you via UPNP). Not really a fan of that.
Both of there products use HTTPS, well the SubSonic setup of this is a manual process :(.
Since we all know (cough..) that we should NEVER expose the LMS server directly to the Internet, I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a solution (software and/or services stack) to allow our favorite mobile players to connect to LMS like the Tonido & Subsonic players can.
If it matters, I've also tested encapsulating the LMS servers HTTP stream via 'stunnel', and can get to LMS without issue this way, including the ../stream.mp3 method of playing tunes.
Are there any others options that should be looked at? Mobile apps that setup a lighter weight proxy tunnel, rather than a full blown VPN connection?
Would this take both a server-side component (Could this be done with a plugin?) and would the players need modifications also?
Has anyone overcome these challenges yet?
Obviously, the best option would be something that fully encapsulates LMS, with features like:
- Proxying of the the stream
- A frontend login with multiple usernames/passwords
- Accounts would have restrictions on what the mobile player can do when it's operating in truly mobile mode -
- Whether it can only control itself or other players
- Whether is can change server settings/cause a rescan, etc.
I for one would LOVE to have Pippin of iPeng fame build this missing piece, and then charge a small annual fee for access ;)