This application contains UPnP and HTTP server and UPnP client. The server runs in the background as a long-running service and another application can be used at the same time.
This server by default distributes all videos, photos, music and eBooks (including .pdf files) to clients over the local Wi-Fi network and, if configured, over the
Internet.
It can be used by standard UPnP clients over your Wi-Fi network, but you can also use your favorite web browser to access videos, music, photos and pdfs over
your Wi-Fi network.
The UPnP client, which is part of the application, supports all Android file types, but if you prefer, you can use VLC (for example) to play video or audio files
remotely via UPnP.
With this application, you can use all the files exported from your Android device, from another Android device, a PC, a Mac, an iPhone or an IPad…
When using a web browser as a client, you can write comments with emoticons anywhere on the page. Only the author of a comment and the administrators can delete it. Files can be set in categories to be distributed in shorter lists to some specific users. You can provide details about your photos, videos, … in the comments and users can write what they think.
You can select multiple files of the same type on the web page to play them. Videos play with HTML5 video support, webm and 3gp work great but mp4 can be limited depending on your device.
Audio also plays with HTML5 support and some formats may not be supported. All images work great on a web page, but only PDF is supported properly with a web browser, in the Ebook category.
If you already have a UPnP server, you can use the client to access it.
TV with Wi-Fi adapter (possibly through DVD player) can easily use UPnP server to watch videos and photos, but if you have an Android TV device, you can also run the server and use the client directly on your TV, allowing the full exchange of files between phones, tablets and this TV.
The HTTP server can be used on the Internet from your WiFi network by simply configuring an external port number in the configuration. If a non-null value is provided, the application tries to dynamically configure your Internet Gateway via UPnP, otherwise you have to configure it manually.
You can also define usernames and passwords for accessing specific files via HTTP and to restrict access via the Internet. Passwords are always encrypted on the network.
The setup is dynamic but it seems best to override the default server name, font size and, if you plan to use the internet, create usernames and passwords, before actual use.
This application supports many languages (Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chichewa, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Nepalese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu).
By default, this application uses the system language, but any language can be used, all user interfaces are configured dynamically, including the web page.
To read eBooks over Wifi, you need another product: Acrobat Reader, qPDFViewer, FBReader, CoolReader or ZoReader. To read eBooks remotely with HTTP, you need to use an eBook reader with OPDS catalog support.
You can start and stop a Wi-Fi hotspot by clicking the icon at the top right of the server window, but it doesn’t work on all devices. Requires WRITE_SETTINGS permission. Clicking the same icon on other devices allows you to dynamically connect to a Wi-Fi network. The password must be given only the first time.
