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Dave_Surtees
Dec 31, 2010Aspirant
Help! Stream from NAS to iPad with AirVideo App?
Hi, I just got my NAS set up and thought it would be great to wifi stream video to my iPad, I installed the app on the pad but it asks me for a IP address (so I enter that of the NAS) it also as...
grummitt
Mar 27, 2011Aspirant
Works great on my Ultra.
As may others have said, initially the ipad app found the server running on my nas, but couldn't see any files.
After enabling/re-enabling the apps and rebooting the NAS they appeared... no idea why they weren't there initially, but all good now :)
edit: Worked out what the issue was/is for me. disabling the addon via frontview doesn't stop the server for some reason, therefore it doesn't refresh the file location after modifying the readynas.properties file. After rebooting the NAS, it reloads. Hopefully this helps someone.
As may others have said, initially the ipad app found the server running on my nas, but couldn't see any files.
After enabling/re-enabling the apps and rebooting the NAS they appeared... no idea why they weren't there initially, but all good now :)
edit: Worked out what the issue was/is for me. disabling the addon via frontview doesn't stop the server for some reason, therefore it doesn't refresh the file location after modifying the readynas.properties file. After rebooting the NAS, it reloads. Hopefully this helps someone.
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