FirePlay
Bo Mellberg has developed a Flash Add-In for Firefly called FirePlay[1] that allows you to stream music directly from your browser, including a Nintendo Wii.
The 3 files from the zip get copied to C:\Program Files\Firefly Media Server\admin-root on the server. Once this is done, you can then open your ports on your router for TCP 9999 (the default port for Firefly on the MediaSmart Server) to forward to your Home Server IP.
You can now access and stream your music anywhere you are from the following (sample) URL's.
- Internal - http://hpserver:9999/FirePlay.html
- External (Windows Live Domain) - http://my.homeserver.com:9999/FirePlay.html
NB: You will need to forward port 9999 on your router to your server for external access.
You will be prompted for a username/password, and the default password is firefly on the HP MediaSmart, a user account is not required.
The default password can be changed via the FireFly web interface, which you can access via http://hpserver:9999/ and choosing Configuration, or direct to http://hpserver:9999/config.html
Dont forget, if your server is called anything other than HPSERVER, change the URL's above.
Configuration for IIS
If you would prefer not to divulge the FireFly admin password or keep using the 9999 port in the url, you can let Internet Information Services (IIS) handle the web traffic instead of the Apache server.
- Copy the three files for FirePlay into c:\inetpub\wwwroot
- Open the FirePlay.html file and search and replace the three entries of
?host=&port= with ?host=your.homeserver.com&port=9999 where your.homeserver.com is your external URL.
- Save the file, and you can now access externally from http://your.homeserver.com/FirePlay.html
If you do want to secure your music, you can set a password on your music to something other than your Admin password by going to http://server:9999/config.html and setting the Music Password. And if you havent changed your Admin Password, thats the same place to change that.
