There’s an excellent article on Smarthome Australia’s website about using UPnP to connect digital entertainment devices to your home network. Windows Media Connect, Twonkyvision, TVersity, and Allegro are all mentioned as media servers. As I’ve blogged previously, here at the Saunders home we use Twonkyvision, with Netgear MP101′s for distributed music. Twonkyvision is a little quirky, but it’s rock solid. I recently upgraded to Twonky’s latest build, and spent the princely sum of 15 euro’s to get their full featured packaged. Well worth the money.
UPnP is on the right curve. When we launched it in 1999, we thought it would take eight years (as USB had) to gain widespread adoption. So, here we are in year six, and UPnP is becoming more and more ubiquitous everyday.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
