What’s Helium?
Helium is a UPnP control point that is supposed to accompany Rygel, but can of course work without it. It offers browsing of media servers, selecting a renderer from a list of devices available on the network and can (currently) play back a single media files from the current server listing to the currently selected renderer (by long-push). This is supposed to change in short-term, giving proper playlist and player controls. Also it needs to get aware of servers and renderers disappearing from the network and get some proper error reporting.
Where’s the code?
Current state is available at Gitorious
I like. Can`t wait to see it grow.
Vorzügliche Screenshots! 😉
Wow! Genau auf das habe ich gewartet!!!! Wowwwwww!
Excellent news! This complements the new DLNA server in the N9 very well. If I may, a suggestion for the future: add a share handler, so you can share (or push) media from the standard media players/viewers on the device directly to a renderer.
So:
– Open the gallery
– Select a photo
– Push the default share button
– The share dialog now has an option to select a renderer to display the photo
Also, UPnP can also be used to copy media to other UPnP servers. That would be nice too 🙂
See https://gitorious.org/helium/helium/blobs/master/TODO#line5 😉
I have been thinking about something like this, an ability to continue music playback though DLNA from the default music player.
1. listen to music on headphone
2. unplug headphone
3.1 tap Helium on application screen once to resume playback though wifi.
or
3.2 tap an nfc/ rfid card with own written info to resume playback though wifi (similar idea to MD-310 audio streamer but only in this case wifi instead of bt), the rfid card could be just a trigger for Helium to know what server to look for (bedroom/living room, etc.).
You sir…. are a legend!
Cant wait to see this become fully capable/mature.
Great to see . I have always claimed that this kind of app is not available on Meego. and I would love to have it.
cant wait for first beta to test.
I would like to use your Helium code to implement a DLNA control point on my Nokia E7 (using QT). Your thoughts on this idea will be appreciated.
This could get difficult as it’s not pure Qt. It uses GUPnP and thus GLib for the UPnP actions. As far as I know, Qt on Symbian doesn’t have GLib mainloop integration. You’d probably need http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/91d89929-fb8c-4d66-bea0-227e42df9053/Open_C_SDK_Plug-In.html and move all the UPnP interaction into a dedicated thread, not to mention that it uses the Harmattan QML components.
Alternatively I might be able to use herqq.org
@Edgar: Yes, sure.
Great idea ! I’m really waiting for a control point on my n9. Can you provide us a deb file, we can then report bug and so
Giljåm: See http://jensge.org/2012/04/helium-0-4-0-beta/