Helium 0.5.0 is available. It contains a lot of improvements and some new features such as
- Volume control on the player
- Possibility to play a media file on a different renderer than the currently selected
- Option to start the on-device media sharing
- Some more settings
Get it on this siteΒ or via apps.formeego.com. I’ve also updated the documentation to reflect the changes.
Whoa, thanks! Tested with twonkymedia and Marantz SR7005, seems to work with music & photos, too bad the receiver doesn’t support video (and UD7006 is just a dumb dlna client..).
Hi, just testing your new version with my Win7 laptop that I have here on my trip. Playing from and to the Windows Media Player works! Some minor issues:
– I play a song to my Win7 computer, then I trigger a song directly from my computer. This leads to the progress bar & loudness shown correctly in Helium but the new title (triggered from Laptop) is not updated in Helium. Similar to that I get the tracker URL shown as title if I open a player in Helium which already consumes a song from another DLNA server. I think this is a general updateTitle issue (Which only seems to be set when I trigger a song from Helium)
– Skipping songs does work when I play songs from Helium. Sometimes it jumps immediately, sometimes it needs several presses and seconds to react at all (Could this be a touch UI problem?)
– Is it intended that I need to change to the player on Helium and press “Play” to start a song?
– Movies do work (At least a lot)
– Very randomly I got the “Connection lost to server/player” messages…also in previous versions (What is actually the reason for loosing connection to the N9 DLNA server? A timeout?) This happend to me especially when I saw servers in the server-view and changed to an empty player-view. This causes the lost connection message and also the servers dissapear…
– Something not caused by Helium. While using the new Helium with autostart option of N9 DLNA server, Pushup doesn’t work properly (Probably because DLNA server gets started twice?)
I will continue to test Helium back at home this week!
@Thomas:
– Unfortunately Win 7 does not send the information that the track has changed so I can’t really display it. Maybe I could add an heuristic to show “Unknown track” or sth.
– The skipping issue could also be some delay in the remote call.
– It’s definitely not intended that you need to press play, the songs should start right away
– Connection lost also means that the network connection is gone. This affects also the internal server.
– I have to check the PushUp thing, thanks for the hint, though I can’t really explain why that should happen.
@Thomas: Can’t really reproduce the PushUp problem, seems to work for me.
Hello Jens,
any updates planned soon for Helium? Having a queue or the ability to play whole albums instead of one single item would be sooo coool π
I’m a bit short on time currently, sorry.
Ok. Very understandable…
And me again π
Recently I noticed, that when Helium starts the local DLNA server, the server is never deactivated on exiting Helium. This way I was running around for days with no DLNA server icon activated but still serving my media to the Wifis I’m connected too. Only when I opened the N9 media sharing dialog, I could see that media sharing is active and after quiting the DLNA settings dialog the DLNA status icon sudddenly appears.
I’ve already filed issue about that: https://github.com/phako/Helium/issues/8