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Add-in: WHS Phone v1.0.7

By on December 3, 2010 in News, Windows Home Server

WHS Phone, an add-in which allows you to manage Windows Home Server via a Windows Phone 7 handset is now available in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. As previously reported, the add-in enables file browsing, music streaming and photo viewing and allow access to certain management functions on the home server.

The add-in’s music streaming feature will let you browse music files stored on your home server and stream them directly to the device over Wi-Fi and 3G. Playlists can be built and played easily directly on the device.Photos taken on the device can be uploaded to the home server directly from the handset, or you can browse photos already stored on the home server from your phone. Home Server management features include the ability to view your server’s resources, manage users, view the status of your computers, and more.

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WHS Phone is available now for £3.95.

More: WHS Phone | Via: MSWHS


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  • PeaInAPod

    I wish HP (or anyone really) would create a decent Android program to manage/interact with the Mediasmart line of home servers.

    • boggy4062

      Well, HP just annouced that Mediasmart line is dead. No more WHS from HP.

  • paulbendall

    Downloaded the app from Marketplace to my HTC Mozart and installed the add-in to my WHS server. All worked well and the streaming is great over wi-fi (not had chance to try over 3G). The author seems very receptive to new ideas so I can see this getting even better. Great idea and implementation

  • http://davepermen.net davepermen

    works well.

  • http://twitter.com/welchwerks @welchwerks

    cant seem to get it on my phone , downloaded it thru zune and onto my pc but dont see it

  • http://twitter.com/welchwerks @welchwerks

    thru the phone it works fine, it the zune sync that didnt do it for me

    and yes works pretty nice

    waiting for the RDP feature now :)

  • RichSpalding

    Excellent. Works perfectly. Thanks for this info!

  • urmaster

    Any chance of adding video streaming? My Xbox 360 video collection is several hundreds of gigabytes large in WMV HD format they playback fine on the device or streaming via IE. When I first got my WP7 I could just pop them onto my phone via Zune but now it seems that Zune wants to reconvert every video, I have to hack at my registry to put videos on -_-.

  • derausgewanderte

    any chance this is available for the Zune HD sometime?

  • Dave

    This looks like it's just folder listings for music/photos/etc. You can get this done now with solutions from Audiogalaxy and the like, and actually read MP3 tag information.

    Right now Synology NAS solutions have an ungodly great solution that I'm waiting for WHS + WinMo7 team to beat. The speed that my colleague can log into his NAS & view his music collection via Artist, Album, Genre, or playlist, is exceedingly fast.

    Changing usernames/passwords/seeing health of the drives remotely is unnecessary on a phone for a *home* server. Having the ability to not sync your 100 GB music collection, view all of your photos, is far more important than administrative stuff. If I need to remote admin, I just use LogMeIn from my phone. It's sad, but a cheap synology NAS looks much better for photo/music remote browsing than this.

    • Rob

      Well Dave, to each their own I suppose. Considering this is just version ONE of WHS Phone and the developer is working diligently on adding and supporting new features, I think it's a great app and the only one of it's kind currently available in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

      I guess the Audiogalaxy argument would be valid if it was supported on WP7 and all you wanted to do was "stream music", but WHS Phone is far more than just a mp3 streamer. It is your one stop app for managing and browsing your Windows Home Server. Give the developer a little time to get more features integrated into WHS Phone. It will only get better from here.

      And you are totally going off topic here with the Synology NAS, this is an application for Windows Home Server and your Windows Phone 7 Device, were is an app that directly competes with WHS Phone in the marketplace and can offer the same amount of usability?

  • Keith

    I downloaded the app from zune but I can't get to the whsphone website to get the WHS add-in. Is the site down?

    • Keith

      Aaah. The website is back up. I just needed to be patient.