Ive been using Empeg Web Lite, and I was wondering if there was anyway I could access it from a computer thats not on my network.

Currently you access empeg web lite by entering the lan address in the link for it. Is there anyway I could access the empeg web lite page for my empeg from say my palm handheld or a friend's computer?

How is your network set up, are you behind a router, for example? If you are behind a broadband router, you would just have to forward the correct ports (80) to the public internet... potentially exposing your Empeg to attack though. You could also place your Empeg's ip in the DMZ for your router also.

From a handheld - well, the browser would have to support the correct features like XMLHTTPRequest, and I do not think either Web Pro or Blazer does. Maybe Pocket IE, but not sure. The vanilla Hijack web interface would work, though. Your problem is just how to connect the handheld to your network.

Well my handheld has bluetooth, could I connect it to my network that way?

Also another problem is that roadrunner who is my provider doesn't allow you to open port 80.

Any other choices?

Its a Tungsten W palm. You can connect to a LAN via bluetooth.

Ah, you have the SDIO BT card for the W. I'm not sure of the SOP to connect to a LAN, but it shouldn't be a PITA.

This is slightly off topic but it relates to the Empeg Web Lite. I can access it and it works just great. However I cannot see the now playing info, the id3 tag info. Everything else is fine, it sees all my playlists and plays them no problem. Was there maybe an option I need to set in the config.ini. The only thing I added to the config initially was the khttpd_style command showing empeg lite's location. Did I miss something? thanks.

Which browser/platform are you on? Are you getting any javascript errors? You do not have to have the khttpd_style option set if you saved it as default.xsl.

Ah, also do you have

[output]
notify=1

in your config.ini?

good lord you responded quick...lol. i'm sorry i forgot to mention that. I'm using Mozilla Firefox. I don't see any warnings as to Javascript errors, though in the past I have had trouble manualling loading java into mozilla. yeah i used that commaned because I renamed the file. maybe i'll try keeping it as default.xsl and see if that works.

Definately possible to access outside your network i.e. on the net.

I have a Belkin Router. It listens for port 81 on my IP and then passes port 80 to my empeg. I would have used port 80 forwarding but that already went to my webserver.

Definately works for me accessing tunes from work to home, though sometime the bandwidth of the tunes is a bit high. Internet radio works slightly better as you can lower than bandwidth.

Ta

i hadn't seen your suggesion about the notify command earlier. that fixed everything and i'm now able to see the now playing track info. what is that supposed to do specifically? I mean other than solve my problem...heh. Thanks again cushman

You're right, the player can publish this information on the serial port.
Hijack makes it available on-demand via /proc/empeg_notify, a much cleaner way of getting this data.