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Using Amazon Echo To Access ReadyNAS DLNA
Currently I access the ReadyNAS DLNA server via my blu-ray player, which is attached to my TV (obviously) and my home stereo system. I'm looking at the Amazon Echo/tap devices as an alternative, primarily because I can control them via a smartphone/tablet app which give me the ability to not have to be in the same room as the blu-ray player using it's remote control device to select which media to play. I can't seem to find anything that states how, if at all possible, I can access the ReadyNAS DLNA service from the Echo/Tap. The product specs for the Echo/tap play up all the, for lack of a better word, non-local services the device can use to play media. I want to be able to access the media locally.
JennC wrote:
If it is a DLNA compliant product then it will work with the ReadyNAS.
I think the challenge here is that it not DLNA compliant. Though I don't own one, so I can only go by what I read.
There is an Alexa app (houseband) that can control the JRiver Media Center software. The media center can then control Sonos speakers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPsOKhC7V4g
But that doesn't involve the NAS directly, and AFAIK it isn't a general DLNA solution. There isn't any hint that houseband can work with plex for instance.
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Hello mwilliams6275,
If it is a DLNA compliant product then it will work with the ReadyNAS. Now to control the product that allows you to use your mobile or smart phone, I think that already depends on the app that you will use on the phone. How its interface works and display things.
Regards,
JennC wrote:
If it is a DLNA compliant product then it will work with the ReadyNAS.
I think the challenge here is that it not DLNA compliant. Though I don't own one, so I can only go by what I read.
There is an Alexa app (houseband) that can control the JRiver Media Center software. The media center can then control Sonos speakers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPsOKhC7V4g
But that doesn't involve the NAS directly, and AFAIK it isn't a general DLNA solution. There isn't any hint that houseband can work with plex for instance.
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