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Thank You Simon - homesickalien - 02-06-2015 20:22
Hi Simon,
Just wanted to say a HUGE Thank You for this solution to the mindnumbingly frustrating problem that is UK BBC HLS streaming through TuneIn for Sonos.....Thanks to you I now have TMS back (albeit England just lost bigtime v NZ so bad timing on my part.....)
It took me a while to configure it through my Synology NAS & laptop running MinimWatch - [FWIW: my 64bit laptop was running interfaces on different subnets AND the wrong version of JDK/Chrome] but I found your instruction & guides extremely helpful....I work in IT but even I struggled, not being a Java pro.
I have donated a small Thank You already....& will send more once I've used it for a while. My family are much happier now that BBC Radio stations appear to be stable through Sonos....just as before
One Question: How does this work ? Any chance you could draw us a simple picture to illustrate the solution via BBC - > Minimserver -> Minimstreamer -> Sonos...if not done already ?
As a certified & very curious Techie, I'm actually genuinely interested in the workflow, from a security perpective in particular.
Many thanks,
Sam
RE: Thank You Simon - simoncn - 02-06-2015 20:44
(02-06-2015 20:22)homesickalien Wrote: Hi Simon,
Just wanted to say a HUGE Thank You for this solution to the mindnumbingly frustrating problem that is UK BBC HLS streaming through TuneIn for Sonos.....Thanks to you I now have TMS back (albeit England just lost bigtime v NZ so bad timing on my part.....)
It took me a while to configure it through my Synology NAS & laptop running MinimWatch - [FWIW: my 64bit laptop was running interfaces on different subnets AND the wrong version of JDK/Chrome] but I found your instruction & guides extremely helpful....I work in IT but even I struggled, not being a Java pro.
I have donated a small Thank You already....& will send more once I've used it for a while. My family are much happier now that BBC Radio stations appear to be stable through Sonos....just as before
One Question: How does this work ? Any chance you could draw us a simple picture to illustrate the solution via BBC - > Minimserver -> Minimstreamer -> Sonos...if not done already ?
As a certified & very curious Techie, I'm actually genuinely interested in the workflow, from a security perpective in particular.
Many thanks,
Sam
Thanks very much!
MinimStreamer is acting as a "proxy" between the Sonos and the BBC server. The BBC server sends the stream to MinimStreamer using the HLS protocol and MinimStreamer sends the same stream data to the Sonos as a regular HTTP stream.