Devices

Overview

UPnP/DLNA

Devices such as TVs interact with BiglyBT via UPnP/DLNA. BiglyBT runs a 'Media Server' that announces itself on the network using 'multicast' messages. TV's announce themselves in a similar fashion. Both listen for multicast messages and discover each other - the TV will show BiglyBT as a 'source' and BiglyBT will show the TV as a 'device' in the sidebar.

Central to this all working is the ability of multicast messages to pass between the two participants. Various things can get in the way of this - your computer's firewall or antivirus software may prevent BiglyBT from sending/receiving the messages, your router may not allow the messages to be routed between the devices.

Generally your computer and the TV will need to be on the same network segment. If you have a single router allocating addresses to devices then this will usually work - issues are more likely to occur when you have two or more routers, for example, an ADSL router terminating your ISP's connection and a separate wireless router connected to the ADSL router and forming a separate network.

Trouble Shooting

My TV used to see BiglyBT and now it doesn't

Do these three things

1. Reboot your computer
2. Reboot your router
3. Unplug your TV from the power, leave it 30 seconds, plug it back in

My TV no longer shows up in the BiglyBT sidebar but shows on the TV

Check that you haven't 'hidden' the device by right-clicking on the Devices sidebar entry and selecting 'show hidden devices'

BiglyBT shows on the TV but there is no content

By default you need to explicitly drag-and-drop content from within your BiglyBT library to the TV's device in the sidebar to make it available on the TV. If you want all of your content to appear on the TV by default then you need to right-click on the TV in the sidebar and de-select the 'only show transcoded content on device'

iTunes Tips

Creating a Video Playlist for iOS Devices

To create a video playlist that works on your iOS devices such as an iPhone you need to put a blank 10 second .mp3 file on the playlist first.

Find one and add it to iTunes by either directly dragging and dropping it onto iTunes or by dropping it onto BiglyBT's iTunes sidebar entry and selecting 'do not transcode'

Create yourself a playlist in iTunes and add the blank music file as the first entry.

Adding Tags to Content

If you want to add tags to content before it is imported into iTunes then you need to disable the auto-copy function by right-clicking on iTunes in the sidebar and deselecting it in the context menu. Once this is done transcoded files will be queued for import into iTunes until you either manually push them through (via the context menu's 'manual copy' option) or you re-enable auto-copy. While queued you can right-click on the queued file to locate it on your hard-drive and tag it as needed.

iTunes 'Integration Problems' on Windows

One cause of this being reported in the sidebar (as the tool-tip text for a warning triangle icon) is that you have installed a 64-bit version of BiglyBT but your iTunes is a 32-bit install. To fix this either replace BiglyBT with a 32-bit install or update your iTunes to a 64-bit install