Just finished an update of the UPnP gateway. After some more reading I found out that for the AV devices (audio/video) there is a different event mechanism using the ‘LastChange’ statevariable. Whatever, besides the nitty gritty details, it just shows more usefull info now. Continue reading →

Having recently discovered some great tools for UPnP (formerly by Intel, now open source), I wondered whether it was possible to create some gateway. I like xPL for its simplicity but its definitions of devices (schemas etc.) are still fairly ambigious. Thats what I like about UPnP, much tighter descriptions, more solid enduser experience. I think this is why most of the xPL users are fairly technical guys that mostly build their own applications and script the whole thing together. A non-techie wouldn’t last very long out there. Continue reading →