Experience Level: Standard

@WHSTweet is a Windows Home Server Add-in that monitors your WHS health status (i.e. the little messages that appear in the tray when you have “Display Network Health Notifications” turned on the in the Windows Home Server Connector).

When the health status changes (i.e the color of the icon changes), the add-in will send a twitter update.

Developer: Donavon West

More Info: Download | Support | Review

Release History

v1.2.0.969 (10th June 2009)

• Added support for Direct Messages (DM)!!!
• Fixed the critical error reporting on reboot bug.
• Changed the twitter bird logo.
• Things were getting a little crowded, so I introduced a tabbed interface.
• Removed #WHS from test tweets to reduce what some have called “spam” (sorry ’bout that!)
• Changed the code to accept localization (i.e. multiple languages). If you would like to volunteer to convert a resource file into your native language, send an email to whstweet@domain.com (where domain = homeserverhacks) and specify the language that you can convert.

v1.05 (23rd May 2009)

• Initial release

Experience Level: Advanced

a/v Engine for Windows Home Server v1 allows you to set up and manage audio/visual home automation hardware from within the WHS Console. It works with a set of tools that allow you to set up virtual remote control tabs incorporating buttons and images overlaid with hotspots.

When a hotspot is clicked, the associated automation is performed. The automation commands are called “action sequences” which adhere to a simple architecture. Elements of the system include clients, servers and automation editors.

Features:

• Create your own PC-based Remote Controls
• Learn and play back infrared (IR) controls
• Use buttons, text and images to design your layout
• Control any device with an IR receiver including X10 and Insteon devices
• Built in control of Sony DVD Changers (VGPXL1BX, CX995VX, CX777ES and others)
• Built in control of Dacal/Ziotek USB Changers
• Runs on WHS V1 as an add-in to the Console
• a/v Automation Server
• a/v Automation Client with a single virtual remotes tab
• Browser web/cam page
• Browser page supports DVD Profiler Online Collection viewing
• Support for running automation from Online Collection browser, using DVD Profiler exported XML
• LoadDVD style requests for media play streamed from WHS using VLC Player streaming engine

Developer: Mediadogg Software

More: a/v Engine | Support & Discussion

Release History

v1.0 (13th February 2011)

• Initial release

Experience Level: Standard

Adds a “Websites” link to your remote Windows Home Server homepage from which you can add bookmark links to your favourite websites.

Developer: Steve Vanhorn

More Info: Download | Support Forum | Review

Release History

v1.0.3.0

• Current release

Experience Level: Advanced

ASoft Addin Cleanup Tool for Windows Home Server is a small tool for Windows Home Server. Sometimes Windows Home Server does not successfully uninstall an add-in.

When this occurs the user won’t be able to uninstall/reinstall the addin.
Sometimes an add-in entry is duplicated because an old version still exists on your home server and can’t be uninstalled.

Manually removing it can be a pain with the need to manually edit the registry. This tool solves this problem for you.

And in case of problems, a backup is made of the registry.

Make sure that you unzip the files to the folder C:\PROGRAM FILES\WINDOWS HOME SERVER on your Home Server itself.

Developer: Asoft

More Info: Download | Support Forum | Review

Release History

v1.0

• Initial Release

Experience Level: Medium

AdminiMe 2010 will monitor your home server in the background and notify you via email if something goes wrong.

A real-time monitoring console allows you to view CPU performance,  memory, network, disks and other statistics such uptime, longest uptime, number of restarts and more.

Shortcuts to tools include:

• Event Viewer
• Task Manager
• Performance Monitor
• Remote Desktop

You also have the option to add your own shortcuts to applications.

Developer: Nick Asseloos

More Info: Download

Release History

v2.0.12016 (23rd November 2011)

• Top 5 current cpu consuming processes.
• Top 5 current memory consuming processes.
• Cpu temperature monitoring. (Not all CPU’s are supported; if not then no output is shown)
• Statistics are kept on the number of: shut downs, suspends, resumes, log offs
• Server name & Server IP is listed in the email.
• Option to shut down / reboot / … when a serious error occurs. br>- Execute a process when a failure or error occurs.
• Total redesign of the user interface
• Option to turn off the chart updates.
• Support lnk files / command line switches.
• Export logging to a file.
• Full support for Simplified Chinese. (Thanks to Yong Zang)
• Various fixes.

Update Release 1 (26/05/10)

• APP:CA002 Cpu Analyzer Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list.
  A proper message is now shown to indicate that the CPU is overloaded.
• Isn’t possible to change the network card, Apply button doesn’t enable
  The button now gets enabled and selecting a card should work.
• Documentation on using the mail functionality in the Communication dialog has been increased.
• Server: Nag screen contains control characters
  Control characters have been removed.
• The part of the add in that shows the add in is registered says: ‘Registrd to:Name’
  Changed to: ‘Registered to: Name’
• Sent emails are german and contains formatting code \\r\\n in the text, right before the text \””In der registrierten Version …\”” “
  Control characters have been removed.
• Server: Console crashes when invalid license file is on the server
  An extra check is done and handled.
• Server: Settings aren’t all saved
  Now when changing settings (like events,…) these are saved as well.
• Server: In some cases, selecting the networkcard wasn’t persisted
  Now when changing the networkcard in the config settings the selected card is saved.
• Server: Error when starting ‘There was a problem while checking the registration file:The device is not connected.’
  Now an extra check is done and this error should be handled.
• Server: Checking the last item in the list of Application Logs (Config tab) doesn’t submit the change, isn’t saved
  Now you can select the last item and save the change too.
• There was a problem while checking the registration file:The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.HomeServer.Controls.ShareManager’ threw an exception.
  This led to problems that mails were sent as unregistered, while the license file was present.
  Now an extra check is done and this error should be handled, in some cases it could still occur.
  If this is the case, send a mail to support@asoft-ware.com for a workaround.
• Server: When a user chose to ignore messages, in the WHS Console then these messages were also reported.
  Now when you choose to ignore messages, they will not be reported anymore.
• Server: In some cases where there was high memory consumption it could be that AdminiMe reported this, while the treshold was not yet reached.
  This was not a bug but the algorithm has been changed slightly so that it is more sensitive.
• The links to the registration page/AutoExit page on the console toolbar where opened locally in the console
  Now they are opened on the client itself.
• You can now disable the monitoring of a disk’ usage, by setting the treshold to 0.
• The disk id’s in the disk overview tab are now padded with a zero and sorted correctly
• The disk rate is now converted to the best format (Kb/s,MB/s,…)

v1.0.0

• Initial release

Experience Level: Expert

Advanced Admin Console allows you to extend access to various parts of your home server’s administration controls from within the WHS Console, including:

• Control Panel Printers and Faxes
• Administrative Tools
• Start Menu
• My Computer
• My Network Places
• Recycle Bin
• Network Connections.

You can also launch a desktop session. At the extreme right of the Console Toolbar is a drop down menu with access to Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, Task Manager, Registry Editor and Customize.

Developer: Andreas M

More Info: Download | Support Forum | Review

Release History

v0.5.4 (20th February 2010)

• Bug fixes

v0.5.0 (24th May 2009)

• Compatible with Internet Explorer 8
• Recycle Bin access added
• Launch Desktop added
• Workgroup option removed

v0.43

• Initial Release

Experience Level: Expert

Any Service Installer allows you to set up any program on your home server as a service, running without having to log on to your server and without interaction.

Developer: Marcel Nouwens

More Info: Download | Support Forum | Review

Release History

v1.0

• Initial release

Experience Level: Standard

AspireHome My Computer Link is an application for home computers which places a link in Windows Explorer’s Computer/My Computer window to your Acer Aspier EasyStore Home Server.

Features:

Experience Level: Standard

Asset is a UPnP media server add-in which improves the audio streaming capabilities of Windows Home Server.

Typically audio files are stored on a server and multiple audio devices around the network can play audio from the server (devices such as Linn DS, XBox 360, PS3, etc).

Asset features:

• Designed from the ground up as an audio UPnP server
• Album Art support,
• Customizable browse tree with advanced search facilities (Album by Release, Style, Composer, Conductor…),
• Configurable Wave / LPCM decoding (no quality loss) for devices which cannot play specific audio types,
• ReplayGain can be applied to Wave / LPCM stream, volume matching across tracks for devices which have no support,
• Extensive tagging ‘standards’ compatibility,
• Wide-ranging audio support: mp3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WMA (inc Lossless), m4a, AIFF, Wave
• Windows Home Server (WHS) specific install, with WHS Connector configuration,
• Windows 2000 / XP / Vista compatible,
• Runs efficiently in the background detecting new & changed tracks (as service)

Developer: Illustrate

More Info: Download | Support Forums

Release History

v3 (18th October 2010)

• The browse trees have been redesigned to simplify track or album searching
• Windows 7 and Vista users can capture their PC sound output and stream to a UPnP player through the PC Sound Capture WASAPI item
• Ability to combine artists with the same name where the spelling is slightly different.

v2.1 (8th January 2010)

• Streaming Fix, compatible with Reciva line of devices
• Registered install able to register on installs where default install path was not used.

v2 (Beta) 27th May 2009

• Added Internet Radio (in Asset Configuration >> Advanced >> Edit >> Restore the browse tree to add internet radio).
• compatible with denon systems
• keeps a static port address, this allows items in a play list to be kept through restarts of Asset
• When updating tags keeps the track ID the same (allows an item stored in playlist to remain)
• album art handled much more efficiently – only one saved per album, also single art url given out for control points (will speed up a track listing where all album arts are the same)
• Internal Tag reader will self quit when main program terminated
• Automatic ‘drilling down’ to next level, for example have tree as Artist (no listing) >> A to Z >> D, previously A to Z would have to be selected, no it does not
• added mp3 encoding option
• bug fix: ps3 and streaming would play the track too short: bitrates were off (and PS3 uses these)
• bug fix: would close asset when a user was logged off (even though asset was running as a service)
• bug fix: tag reader could leave the file open
• bug fix: could return restricted for metadata browse on an item

v1.1

• Windows media audio (inc lossless) added to WHS install
• Bug fix for where tracks could appear multiple times (do ‘Rescan (Refresh all)’ if have duplicated tracks)
• Bug fix compilation ’0′ tag was being picked up as a compilation

V1.0

• Inital release

Experience Level: Standard

ASoft AutoExit for Windows Home Server is a console add-in for Windows Home Server. It can be used to shut down, reboot client machines in your home network from within the console.

Other options are: suspend, hibernate, log off, lock workstation and the server itself can be shut down or rebooted!

The server can be woken up via WOL from the client.

Sending a message to the different machines can also be done.

There is even support for opening a Remote Desktop session to the remote machines and to the server!

Statistics are kept of all actions, so that a detailed trace can be viewed on when certain actions were executed.

ASoft Live! Is now supported to inform the user when a new update is available.

Developer: Asoft

More Info: Download | Support Forum | Review

Release History

v. 2009 UR1 (5th October 2010)

• Support for Spanish
• A command line tool that can be used to execute various shutdown actions

v. 2009 (12/08/09)

• Wake On Lan all clients.
• Send a message to all connected clients.
• Warn users when the server is going down.
• Support for Windows 7.
• Possibility to the Wake On Lan port to send to.
• Possibility to enable easy logging on the client side.
• Mac-address of the server is retrieved when opening the diagnostic dialog and the Mac field being empty.
• When downloading an update, it is automatically saved to the ‘Server\Software’ or ‘Server\Logiciel’ folder, if none of these exist the browse directory dialog is shown.
• Fix: On some machines the actions did not work and an error 998 was displayed, this has been fixed.
• Fix: Fixed issue that settings in Vista/Windows 7 weren’t read correctly and because of this AutoWOL Server didn’t work.
• Fix: Now when a client comes out of sleep, a WOL packet is sent to the server if enabled.
• Fix: Small improvement to the update dialog to show the product name.
• Fix: When using hibernate/sleep, the machine sometimes couldn’t be enabled again.
• Fix: Detects if Remote Desktop is enabled on a Home Edition.

v.2008 R2

• Much easier to set up, minimal configuring needed.
• Support Hibernation mode
• Support Sleep mode
• Logging of a user
• Locking the machine
• Client software to install on each client machine to support more features
• Diagnostics module in the client that checks if hibernation & sleep is supported and if Remote Desktop is supported.
• It gives a set of instructions when one of these aren’t configured.
• Cancel a shutdown from the client.
• WOL Server from client is now possible. So waking up the server can now be done from every client.
• WOL Server from client automatically. This allows you to automatically WOL the server when a certain clients starts up.
• Gives a notification the first time the addin starts up with a small instruction set.
• Checks for new versions, when logging into the console or manually.
• The help is extended by a guideline document which is placed on the server so that it is easily accessible from the whole network, that contains the whole help on how to do the install, setup, troubleshooting completely with screenshots on how to do it in the different versions of Windows.
• Fixed issue with mac address, now a users can edit the mac address manually.
• When the list was refreshed and the popupmenu was open, the selection of the machine disappeared. Now the refresh doesn’t occur until the menu is closed.
• Option to shutdown the server
• 64bit support.

Experience Level: Standard

AVA Media is an add-in/hardware combo for Windows Home Server, which comes in the form of a CD & DVD Ripping application for the platform.

AVA Media is available as an audio-only application or with full CD & DVD ripping depending on your needs and is available to buy with a bundled external CD/DVD drive.

Once the software is installed to your Home Server, and registered, you simply plug in your external drive and slide in a CD (audio version) or a DVD (full version) and the AVA Media system does the rest.

• Collects and compares the meta data (track titles etc) from multiple data providers, including GD3 a premium data provider
• Rips your CDs to high quality (lossless) formats or MP3 – then stores the files for sharing to your media players
• Can be set to convert to a second format for mobile use (MP3 players)
• Then simply ejects the disk when done (normally 4-5 minutes, depending on the number of tracks and disk surface condition)
• The music files are then available to all your network and portable music players (subject to the server type), i.e. SONOS etc
• Your music library is also available for viewing on your Home Server console

Developer: Tranquil PC

More: Download

Release History

v1.6.0.3 (12th October 2010)

Added: Support for Nimbie NB11 DVD/Blu-ray media center copying.
Added: Event Handler functionality
Added: Mede8er meta-data storage.
Update: Dune interface improved.
Update: TViX interface improved.
Change: MetaData files moved to user customization
Fix: AnyDVD is now set to be silent to prevent popups during disc identification.
AVA Media for Windows Home Server 1.51 Build 2
Fix: Issue causing the program to run into a loop if something is wrong within the default processing component.
Fix: Configures Transcoder to not look at DVD drives, which could cause disc copying to take way too long.
Fix: Restarting AnyDVD if disc id cannot be read

v1.51 (23rd January 2010)

Added: User customization content for My Movies 3
Fix: Workaround to problem with special discs that AnyDVD cannot handle for external programs.
Fix: Issue preventing the program from getting album art from Amazon when copying CD’s
Fix: Issue where reading a disc id from AnyDVD could fail
Fix: Issue with selecting language on Xtreamer, TViX and Dune integrations

v1.0.5.7 (17th July 2009)

1. That could cause a CD not to copy if an empty artist or album title occurs CD’s with many tracks failed to copy
2. Issue with MP3 and CD titles with long file names
3. CD’s with sector read errors now fail after a total of 25 read errors on each track.
4. Avoids the copy process to appear to hang for longer time, while trying to read scratched sectors.
5. Issue causing installer version to give license message on each reboot

6. Handling of read errors from the database in some occasions

Experience Level: Standard

Client Info displays hardware information about your home server, and each of the home computers on your network including the processor, memory, IP address, drive size, drive temp, and hard drive health.

Developer: Eric Maurer

More Info: Download | Support Forum | Review

Release History

v2.0.0.1

• Current Release