XBox 360 UPnP client and Coherence in communication therapy
The XBox 360 UPnP client is a little bit peculiar and finicky regarding its dealings – well, actually it only wants to talk to its really close friends, the Windows Media Player 11 and the Windows Media Connect server.
With a lot of patient care from Tristan Seligmann and a yet unknown contributor we managed to win its confidence and now that poor little thing has started to talk via UPnP to Coherence – and requests so far audio and image files from the MediaServer, even from the Flickr backend.
To be honest, it was more the devotedness of Coherence than the willingness of the XBox that made this happen, especially when it came to the UPnP idiom spoken in the suburbs of Seattle, but anyway it is a nice thing to see this cagey behaviour come to an end.
And what’s even greater to see is Coherence being of real use for somebody outside and furthermore getting something back!