Bluetooth discussion - Laptop As A Stereo Receiver

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Laptop As A Stereo Receiver

dmly.usa@gmail.com

2007-10-23, 3:33 pm

Hello,
I wonder if I could use my Sony laptop as a stereo receiver to play
music from my bluetooth enabled phone? My laptop has bluetooth as
well.

Thanks.

Larry

2007-10-23, 10:33 pm

dmly.usa@gmail.com wrote in news:1193167366.878403.181000
@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

> Hello,
> I wonder if I could use my Sony laptop as a stereo receiver to
play
> music from my bluetooth enabled phone? My laptop has bluetooth
as
> well.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Sure! Go download Orb from:
http://corp.orb.com/
It's free!

You DON'T INSTALL IT ON THE LAPTOP...or PDA...or Nokia N800 like
mine...(c; It installs as a SERVER at home on your massive
mainframe. It converts media into a Realvideo or Windoze Media
or Quicktime stream and sends it out to your laptop, or in my
case the little Nokia N800 internet tablet either through my BT
phone modem on Alltel or any available wifi the N800 stumbles
across.

I almost lost it at a wifi-enabled restaurant! The kids at the
next table over heard the Bugs Bunny cartoons I was playing off
Orb on the tablet. I told their parents, NO, I didn't want to
take them with me. Raising mine was quite enough!

Orb will play all your videos/audios/make beautiful slide shows
of your photo files. It will even CONTROL your compatible TV
card in your home computer, REMOTELY! If you hook cable TV to
the TV card on your home PC, you can watch any channel it's
allowed to see....STREAMED to your laptop! Really cool. If you
have a webcam, you can set it up and access it remotely from
anywhere with that BT phone....seeing what the baby sitter is
REALLY doing to your kids.

I use Skype, so I don't know what it's myPhone will do...

----------------------------------------------

Any internet radio station will play on your laptop over
Sellphone wifi via BT. The 1X dialup speed on Sellphones will
balk. We have EVDO on Alltel, now.

Larry
--
Please be very careful and read your Sellphone carrier's user
agreement with you before doing any of the above. For instance,
all this is FORBIDDEN, SPECIFICALLY on Verizon, which
SPECIFICALLY says their Sellphone internet is to ONLY be used for
email, looking at spammer webpages and connecting to your
company's intranet if you're a salesman on the road. Any kind of
uploading, downloading, streaming is specifically forbidden.

Of course, they have to catch you first. Verizon just dumps you
if you use 5GB/month!....hardly "unlimited service" like its ads
say....

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/

2007-10-27, 12:33 pm

On Oct 24, 1:07 am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> dmly....@gmail.com wrote in news:1193167366.878403.181000
> @k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> play
> as
>
>
> Sure! Go download Orb from:http://corp.orb.com/
> It's free!
>
> You DON'T INSTALL IT ON THE LAPTOP...or PDA...or Nokia N800 like
> mine...(c; It installs as a SERVER at home on your massive
> mainframe. It converts media into a Realvideo or Windoze Media
> or Quicktime stream and sends it out to your laptop, or in my
> case the little Nokia N800 internet tablet either through my BT
> phone modem on Alltel or any available wifi the N800 stumbles
> across.
>
> I almost lost it at a wifi-enabled restaurant! The kids at the
> next table over heard the Bugs Bunny cartoons I was playing off
> Orb on the tablet. I told their parents, NO, I didn't want to
> take them with me. Raising mine was quite enough!
>
> Orb will play all your videos/audios/make beautiful slide shows
> of your photo files. It will even CONTROL your compatible TV
> card in your home computer, REMOTELY! If you hook cable TV to
> the TV card on your home PC, you can watch any channel it's
> allowed to see....STREAMED to your laptop! Really cool. If you
> have a webcam, you can set it up and access it remotely from
> anywhere with that BT phone....seeing what the baby sitter is
> REALLY doing to your kids.
>
> I use Skype, so I don't know what it's myPhone will do...
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Any internet radio station will play on your laptop over
> Sellphone wifi via BT. The 1X dialup speed on Sellphones will
> balk. We have EVDO on Alltel, now.
>
> Larry
> --
> Please be very careful and read your Sellphone carrier's user
> agreement with you before doing any of the above. For instance,
> all this is FORBIDDEN, SPECIFICALLY on Verizon, which
> SPECIFICALLY says their Sellphone internet is to ONLY be used for
> email, looking at spammer webpages and connecting to your
> company's intranet if you're a salesman on the road. Any kind of
> uploading, downloading, streaming is specifically forbidden.
>
> Of course, they have to catch you first. Verizon just dumps you
> if you use 5GB/month!....hardly "unlimited service" like its ads
> say....

Hi Larry,
thanks for your kind explanations.
I am happy user of N770 and would like to test streaming video/audio
from PC running orb server to
my N770 over bluetooth and wifi.
How to start up ?
Already installed orb on my pc, what do I need to do next ?
I am aware my N770 can listen to data/audio/video streams
but I am going to listen to peer-to-eer streams, Internet off-line.
There is an option in media settings , already enabled, called
UPnP AV Media Server and help files says it should enable any such
streaming.
But what application should I run on my N770 and at what setup to read
data streams from my PC ?

Thanks.
Darius

Larry

2007-10-27, 10:33 pm

"http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
@yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193502670.525168.279090
@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> But what application should I run on my N770 and at what setup
to read
> data streams from my PC ?
>
>

Orb uses no apps on the mobile end of the system. You access
your Orb with the web browser, enter username and password and
logon. The Orb server decides if you did it right, then
instructs your orb to call the mobile with ITS own webpage
structure, complete with variable skins to suit. Having pre-
configured orb on the server PC to include the directories you
wish presented, first, You may access the files in many different
ways by clicking the webpage control selections. Once having
chosen something to play, audio, video, photo, etc., Orb starts
streaming back to the mobile's webpage in whichever of the 3
stream encoders you chose, Realvideo/audio in our case to the
Nokias. The Nokia automatically boots mplayer and its REAL
codecs and starts streaming through mplayer. If you chose play
all or shuffle, it will sequentially stream every file in the
genre or directory you selected.

Nothing "installs" on the N770. It's a webpage controlled
streamer just like BBC.

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/

2007-10-28, 10:33 am

On Oct 28, 4:32 am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> "http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
> @yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193502670.525168.279090
> @k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> to read
>
> Orb uses no apps on the mobile end of the system. You access
> your Orb with the web browser, enter username and password and
> logon. The Orb server decides if you did it right, then
> instructs your orb to call the mobile with ITS own webpage
> structure, complete with variable skins to suit. Having pre-
> configured orb on the server PC to include the directories you
> wish presented, first, You may access the files in many different
> ways by clicking the webpage control selections. Once having
> chosen something to play, audio, video, photo, etc., Orb starts
> streaming back to the mobile's webpage in whichever of the 3
> stream encoders you chose, Realvideo/audio in our case to the
> Nokias. The Nokia automatically boots mplayer and its REAL
> codecs and starts streaming through mplayer. If you chose play
> all or shuffle, it will sequentially stream every file in the
> genre or directory you selected.
>
> Nothing "installs" on the N770. It's a webpage controlled
> streamer just like BBC.
>
> Larry
> --
> You can tell there's extremely
> intelligent life in the universe
> because they have never called Earth.

Thanks Larry,
your are really Great.
Unfortunatelly installation of my old Micronet SP906A RadioLink pci
adapter failed
as my PC can't bios boot when card installed.
But I am sure I worked fine under another PC running 98 Windows, some
years ago.

Thanks for your kind explanations as I was not aware how orb does work
as it released
another distribution ported to Nokia 800 and was afraid having to have
orb on server and client both installed.
So I have to buy new wifi usb dongle or wifi pci card and start
installation from the beginning.

Some time ago I played around with winamp radio broadcasting , setting
up winamp server.
So it would be nice to have Media Streamer by Nokia installed on Nokia
Tablet
to have an option to open local files and remote networked media
streams as Winamp does.

And oine more question.
Have you tried your Nokia 800 to act as a network WiFi/Bluetooth
bridge to
have N800 networked to PC over bluetooth for PC orb stream reception
and
have N800 Wifi to forward media stream to another Wifi enabled N800 ?

Thanks.
Darius

Larry

2007-10-28, 10:33 pm

"http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
@yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193578276.177241.286530@
19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

> Thanks for your kind explanations as I was not aware how orb
does work
> as it released
> another distribution ported to Nokia 800 and was afraid having
to have
> orb on server and client both installed.
> So I have to buy new wifi usb dongle or wifi pci card and start
> installation from the beginning.

Orb was never ported to anything I can find but Windows XP SP2
and Vista. Nothing changes on the N800 when you listen to
Orb...same old browser...same old Real playing on mplayer.

Orb has no client program at all. I can use the Orb server at
home same as anywhere else on the planet...Connect n800 to wifi
or my cellphone, it matters not, then put username/pw into the
bootup window in Opera 8 browser on the N800 and it comes right
up over the LAN, if I'm wifi connected to the Netgear router.
You don't have to "buy anything new".

>
> Some time ago I played around with winamp radio broadcasting ,
setting
> up winamp server.
> So it would be nice to have Media Streamer by Nokia installed
on Nokia

> Tablet
> to have an option to open local files and remote networked
media

> streams as Winamp does.
>
> And oine more question.
> Have you tried your Nokia 800 to act as a network
WiFi/ Bluetooth
> bridge to
> have N800 networked to PC over bluetooth for PC orb stream
reception
> and
> have N800 Wifi to forward media stream to another Wifi enabled
N800 ?
>

No, haven't tried to use BT for it. Orb is connected to the
Ethernet port, not BT. I don't think it's capable, by itself, of
networking over BT. There's no reason to do it that way as the
computer is hard wired to the wifi router transmitting 802.11g to
the N800.

Can't imagine why you'd want to bridge them, either...??

Orb simply CONSUMES a 3.4G Athalon 64's CPU what with having to
use DivX to decode, uncompress and provide a video and audio data
stream TO Orb, then have Orb take that and package it, on-the-
fly, to be a Realmedia stereo streamer out to the Ethernet port.
That's asking quite a LOT of a little PC with a 400 Mhz
motherboard! It would never be able to do that to TWO users at
once. There's simply not that kind of horsepower in a fast XP
desktop. Watching Process Explorer (pre Micro$not) and you can
see Orb's process and server applet just sucking CPU cycles dry.

>

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/

2007-10-29, 3:33 pm

On Oct 28, 10:47 pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> "http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
> @yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193578276.177241.286530@
> 19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> does work
> to have
>
> Orb was never ported to anything I can find but Windows XP SP2
> and Vista. Nothing changes on the N800 when you listen to
> Orb...same old browser...same old Real playing on mplayer
.....
> (cut for clarity..)

Ok. You are right.
I was misguided by application name: Orb-Nokia,
Download Orb Nokia
http://corp.orb.com/en/download_nokia

Is MyCasting something special Nokia N800 related only ?

http://corp.orb.com/n800/

Thanks again.

Darius

Larry

2007-10-30, 10:33 am

"http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
@yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193687148.197525.254220
@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> Is MyCasting something special Nokia N800 related only ?
>
>

No, it isn't. I think Orb may be connected, possibly supported,
by Nokia, but I'm not sure. Orb, installed on my WinXP box with
4.8TB of drives on cable broadband, works great to my Gateway
laptop wherever I land. I can tell Orb, by remote control, to
reduce its bandwidth usage so it will stream quite nicely through
my BT DUN Alltel E815 where no wifi exists, to either the N800
internet tablet or the Gateway laptop. As no software is
installed on the mobile unit, there's no limitations on its use
by the mobiles. Orb is now advertiser supported with a clickad
on the webpage on the laptop, but not the N800 interface where
there is no room for it. Nokia may subsidize that.

corp.orb.com/ without the N800 extension, is for all other
mobile users. Don't download and install Orb on your laptop! It
only installs on the SERVING computer.

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/

2007-11-01, 10:33 pm

On Oct 30, 3:07 pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> "http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
> @yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193687148.197525.254220
> @z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
>
>
> No, it isn't. I think Orb may be connected, possibly supported,
> by Nokia, but I'm not sure. Orb, installed on my WinXP box with
> 4.8TB of drives on cable broadband, works great to my Gateway
> laptop wherever I land. I can tell Orb, by remote control, to
> reduce its bandwidth usage so it will stream quite nicely through
> my BT DUN Alltel E815 where no wifi exists, to either the N800
> internet tablet or the Gateway laptop. As no software is
> installed on the mobile unit, there's no limitations on its use
> by the mobiles. Orb is now advertiser supported with a clickad
> on the webpage on the laptop, but not the N800 interface where
> there is no room for it. Nokia may subsidize that.
>
> corp.orb.com/ without the N800 extension, is for all other
> mobile users. Don't download and install Orb on your laptop! It
> only installs on the SERVING computer.
>
> Larry
> --
> You can tell there's extremely
> intelligent life in the universe
> because they have never called Earth.

Thanks Larry,

I was advised to test TVersity media streaming server
Installed it on PC XP Windows
and can run it locally as http://localhost:41952/
unfortunately can't set up ad-hoc wireless network
(no access point, no router, static IP addresses both on Nokia maemo
and PC)
and trying Opera web browser on Nokia to open http://PC IP address:
41952/
or Media Streamer, the existing wireless ad-hoc network connection is
saved
and network connection utility invoked on Nokia
hanging it up, crashing and rebooting.

It seems I can't TVersity wireless stream media to Nokia maemo without
router/access point
assigning DHPC IP addresses.

Asked developers at maemo, asked users at internettablettalk, asked
users at TVersity forums
and keep trying to give the idea to buy wireless AP/router to replace
my wireless lan pci card installed in PC,
I just bought 2 days ago.

Thanks.
Darius

Larry

2007-11-02, 10:33 pm

"http://members.lycos.co.uk/dariusjack/" <dariusjack2006
@yahoo.ie> wrote in news:1193970017.027984.257050
@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> Asked developers at maemo, asked users at internettablettalk,[
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asked[color=darkred]

> users at TVersity forums
> and keep trying to give the idea to buy wireless AP/router to
replace
> my wireless lan pci card installed in PC,
> I just bought 2 days ago.
>
>

Just go get Orb. Works great. I spent the day at Alltel, today.

Moto E815 has hardware/software bug that causes it to get dumped
LOTS and Alltel admitted it, today. Swapped me for obsolete Moto
V3a, which I found out has no internet, no DUN, NO JOY!
After consultation with store manager, swapped me for Samsung
SCH-R500, another old phone they're dumping for $39. It pairs
with the Nokia N800 from the N800 and the N800 reports DUN, OPP,
FTP, SPP profiles. HOWEVER, the Samsung phone reports the N800
ONLY DOES OPP PROFILE! It won't, of course, connect or let me
use the new Samsung as a DUN....so back she goes in the morning.

Samsung says BT v1.2 on R500's OLD operating system. Nokia N800
is BT V2.0. Alltel hasn't a clue and says they don't support DUN
connecting any more....so does Samsung! I'm going to go try to
FORCE them to let me have a Moto ROKR, instead of this old
obsolete crap, tomorrow. ROKR has V2.0 DUN,SPP,FTP,OPP

My old E815 paired instantly with the Nokia N800 from day one

Too bad E815's firmware is crap and can't stay connected to
Alltel EVDO.....DAMMIT!

I spent 8 hours on this, today, when I should have been working.

Nuts......(d^:)

Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

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