or maybe a mobile wireless router. I've not used one but these sort of devices look like they fit the bill?Dave the bass wrote:...thinking I need to set the Laptop WiFi adaptor up as an 'Access Point'?
Ray
or maybe a mobile wireless router. I've not used one but these sort of devices look like they fit the bill?Dave the bass wrote:...thinking I need to set the Laptop WiFi adaptor up as an 'Access Point'?
Can't you just use an Ethernet cable and assign the IP manually? Or have you tried that? If not then a cheap switch between the two and set the IP manually.Dave the bass wrote:Whether I install LMS on the Pi or the Laptop still leaves the problem of getting the Pi to see the Laptop through a wLAN so I think Ray's USB portable WiFi router links might be the way to go perhaps.
I'm a-wondering if just getting the Pi to work as a USB DAC would be the simplest route? That way I still use existing JRiver prog and connect Laptop to Pi via a USB cable, no pootling about with Wifi that way, but just realized whilst typing I loose Tablet remote control too, doh.
Many things there are to think
I thought wireless was needed for the tablet control point?Neal wrote:Can't you just use an Ethernet cable and assign the IP manually? Or have you tried that? If not then a cheap switch between the two and set the IP manually.
What would be really neat, and I may try it, is to install one of the many RPi touch screens and install x windows and a desktop...you would only then need a USB drive to hold your music and control it from a web browser running from say KDE....
Yes, and in that case a simple cable would be fine, but I thought Mr. Bass was looking for the full couch potato experience...Neal wrote:You can control it from the laptop via a browser....
Well yes that goes without saying! LOL!Ray P wrote:Yes, and in that case a simple cable would be fine, but I thought Mr. Bass was looking for the full couch potato experience...Neal wrote:You can control it from the laptop via a browser....
Ray
After a week of deliberation the verdict of the Kentish jury is?Dave the bass wrote:Lazy-arse-mode would be an advantage I confess. Still ummin an' arhhhing on this latest Holiday-system variant.