when trying to set up the ipad or iphone as a remote for the pch c200 I ran into a couple snags. If anyone gets a 404 error using NMT community software installer and has googled it they will find several forums with several different suggestions for a fix. I found none of them worked for my situation. what I then tried was

1. updating the C200 firmware using the online install option.
after doing so I went to the NMT settings and found an error , my firmware and NMT versions were not the same or “compatible”
so I went back and re-did the NMT wizard. this failed!.

I then altered my java code trying to get the CSI program to work. After a few trys, I finally downloaded the firmware from the popcorn hour site, unzipped to a usb, and then plugged it into the c200 and again re-did the NMT wizard.

after the install HAZAAA the firmware and NMT versions were compatible and no errors however myihome wont start but everything else SMB FTP torrent… all work great.

So I then tried the NMT community software installer again, with origianl java files, and installed the PLONK for the C200 and it worked, as well as the ipad and iphone connections!!!!,

I hope this helped someone,

after several years of distributing an amazing product the popcorn hour is finally available quickly. I have ordered two over the years and the wait to get one could sometimes be up to a month or more. The popcorn hour is now getting more and more popular and is finally available via amazon.com and can be received within a few days!

This is a quick video showing how I have my movie selection set up at my home. It now uses the ISkin based on YAMJ and works via IPhone, IPod touch, and or IPad. The movies are on a UPNP NAS server I set up. I just switched to the QNAP TS-410 Turbo NAS. I previouslly was using a similar Synology NAS but it only had two hard drive bays.

So far I am loving the QNAP NAS. I will do another post about it soon but just wanted to throw it out there in case anyone is wondering how they compare.

YAMJ ISKIN, IPad, Popcorn Hour, and a NAS = AWSOME

Using my popcorn hour, I did notice fairly quickly that when your video collection gets large picking movies can become a hassle or at least hard to decide what to watch. So I started thinking what would be the best way to solve this issue? I came up with what I thought was an original idea, have an interface that displays the posters for my movies, and images i make for my own movies. I went straight to programming and Google. that is when I noticed that I was not alone in my journey and there were already several options available….

I started with the “My lil Movie Jukebox“. This option requires you to create your own database of movies using “Movie Collector”. I did this and loved it for a while. the interface wasn’t slick or fast but it Definitely was 10 times better than my previous text based movie searches. I messed with the code and had the jukebox running the way i wanted.

I used this option for quite a while, feeling confident in my decision but then i stumbled across YAMJ (yet another movie jukebox). Dont click right away! This is something amazing. Yamj will not only create a very “slick” looking interface it will do it quickly and dynamically based on the way you name your movies.
This is the way to go, the options are not as open as “My lil Movie Jukebox” but it is quick, and reqires little work.

my love of popcorn hour

I have had a popcorn hour for many years. From the very start I absolutely loved it. The popcorn hour will play any file you throw at it. It streams large files to your TV with WiFi or hard lined internet with no issues what so ever. It is the greatest media steamer I have ever had the privilege of owning.

Well here we are several weeks after the release of the IPhone 4 and the apple OS4. I still find the OS very aggravating and no where near as user friendly as the previous versions. At first I figured it would just take some getting used to but it is obvious this OS was rushed.

I have had mine since the night before it was supposed to be released. I have regretted my purchase ever since. I will admit that the camera/movie camera features are amazing but that is not what this is supposed to be primarily used for. It’s supposed to be a freaking phone why does the phone part function the worst?

Here is what I have read/heard on the phone.

Its reception issue is due to the black bars being covered from your hand. Why is it on my desk at work I get worse reception than I did with the 3G and 3Gs? Apple has said the issue with reception is related to the calculation process in the software and that it shows one or two bars more than the phone actually is receiving. OK, then they said it would take a month to fix. lets pretend it takes a month to release a calculation fix… then how would this at all fix reception? It would not, it would simply show more accurate readings of the same reception, basically meaning that you will usually see 1 to 0 bars on your phone.

I do not pretend to know anything about building a phone, but my assumption is that this is a flat out design issue and that they are going to take this “month” to find any little fixes that may help boost the reception little by little but in the end it was a design flaw and they are in the wrong and will never admit it. Further if enough bad press and lawsuits continue they will finally recall the phone will no admittance of guilt but simply a statement saying they want to please the users.

Apple has become what they used to rave that they were not. They are becoming full of themselves and due to that they are producing un-tested buggy design flawed products. If it were the old Apple admission of guilt along with several viable options for the customers would have been made available.