Small hand held Blue Tooth PC Monitor ?

[DIY Junky]

Since I only use my PC as a place to store and play my audio files to my receiver. I was wondering if there was a way to use a tablet or other wireless device to open widows media player on my wired PC. I want to get rid of tv monitor on wall. There must be a touch screen app or something to do this ? My pc is set to send audio files out HMDI to receiver .

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

The first thing required for this to work is that your PC must have a receiver for the wireless signal your tablet et. al. is transmitting. Does it?

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[DIY Junky]

Yes wi fi and blue teeth able pc . Mirror cast looks like it will work with dongle adapter ?

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

My tech department says if all your devices are all the same wireless network, then you should be able to access the files via a device, as long as you’ve enabled “sharing” on your PC and your device has a media player.

Another alternative is to use One Drive.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

There few ways to skit that particular cat, but none are easy if you're not very pc friendly:
one way is to turn your pc into DLNA server: https://www.howtogeek.com/215400/how-to-turn-your-computer-into-a-dlna-media-server/
use DLNA client software on a tablet to render it (play) it on your home stereo system if it supports DLNA streaming

Another, much more involved, but in the end, a much more usable option is DIY here:
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2017/03/howto-building-and-installing-raspberry.html

 

[lovinthehd]

I use bubbleupnp on my android phone to control my library on my pc running foobar2000 over dlna/wifi. Don't use Windows Media Player, don't know if it will work with that as a library. I use various devices to render the stream (avrs, bluray players, etc)

 

[DIY Junky]

Thanks for the input and help . I am sure one of these will work. I have all my audio files backed up on a portable hard drive. I tried playing Wav files directly into my dennon when I first got because it said Plays WAV files. It did not so I had to use pc to play them and pipe them out through HMDI. The mirror cast sounds simple and just set up as a secondary display screen

 

[lovinthehd]

Thanks for the input and help . I am sure one of these will work. I have all my audio files backed up on a portable hard drive. I tried playing Wav files directly into my dennon when I first got because it said Plays WAV files. It did not so I had to use pc to play them and pipe them out through HMDI. The mirror cast sounds simple and just set up as a secondary display screen

What model Denon didn't play a WAV file? I usually use FLAC files, but just created a WAV file and played just fine on my two Denons....I use thumb drives, tho, not sure if your portable is compatible?

 

[DIY Junky]

What model Denon didn't play a WAV file? I usually use FLAC files, but just created a WAV file and played just fine on my two Denons....I use thumb drives, tho, not sure if your portable is compatible?

My Denon is AVR 4806 CI I spent many hours live chat and e-mails with tech support on this and then dennon got bought out and I gave up .. Plays and streams MP3s and other junk compressed audio files ok just not WAV streamed Wav has to be played as audio out to audio in through HMDI to play . DVDA plays through fire wire mint.. and gets hand shake every time I fire it up . No usb in on this dennon

 

[lovinthehd]

My Denon is AVR 4806 CI I spent many hours live chat and e-mails with tech support on this and then dennon got bought out and I gave up .. Plays and streams MP3s and other junk compressed audio files ok just not WAV streamed Wav has to be played as audio out to audio in through HMDI to play . DVDA plays through fire wire mint.. and gets hand shake every time I fire it up . No usb in on this dennon

Interesting. I have a 3808 and 4520 each have multiple usb inputs and keep at least a thumb drive in for the times I'm lazy and the internet goes down. I do usually use hdmi tho.

 

[DIY Junky]

Interesting. I have a 3808 and 4520 each have multiple usb inputs and keep at least a thumb drive in for the times I'm lazy and the internet goes down. I do usually use hdmi tho.

I bought this Denon at Tweeter Center just before they went out of business. How many years ago was that ? Internet radio just started .. no Pandora or Spotify yet ... This was Denons Flagship at that time..

 

[lovinthehd]

Looks to be of a similar age to my 3808....not sure how their model number hierarchy worked....

 

[BMXTRIX]

3808 was 2008. 3807 was 2007. Last number indicated the year of release for quite a while.

If you are trying to run audio files off your computer, and push them to the Denon through a wired connection, like an optical audio output to the Denon from your PC, then you really are using your PC as a media server. So, you really want to look into a audio application on your computer that offers control from an iOS/Android device.

Kodi, for example, offers both Android and iOS remotes. So, you can use your tablet to run the show but use the PC to pipe the content to your Denon.

That was the first I thought of and I expect there may be much better options out there, especially if you are looking for music specific solutions. There may also be more music friendly stand alone audio servers that are designed more around tablet/phone control vs. needing a PC.

You are setting your computer up as a home theater PC, and there are a ton of forums specifically dedicated to HTPC use which you really want to take a look at as you will get a lot of first hand experience from different HTPC users doing exactly what you want.

At some point there was a really nice music server integration piece listed and discussed in these forums, but I didn't bookmark the page, so that's an option as well.

But, if you want to stick with your PC and looking for tablet control, then it needs to be the right software running on your PC to allow it and designed for it. It really depends on what your end goal really is.

EDIT: I am pretty sure this was the music specific stand alone player I was thinking of...
http://www.bluesound.com/products/node-2/

 

[DIY Junky]

Mirror cast seams to be the simple way out and use what ever hand held device as a second display for PC $50 from Microsoft stores. And windows friendly. Thanks for all the help and input