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Thanks to Nokias generosity I now have the possibility to test Coherence with and against the UPnP stack shipped with the N800 and used e.g. by Media Streamer or Canola and the UPnP plugin for the gnome-vfs layer.

So far I used the file manger application and Media Streamer, and there have been pleasant and promising results.

The Coherence powered devices are spotted by the N800 and the content retrieval from the MediaServers - even the Flickr one - works fine.

Albeit from the file manger application which seems to circle sometimes.

The GStreamer MediaRenderer backend is recognized too and can be controlled, with the restriction that the Media Streamer UI does not follow the state changes. I’m still unsure whether this is on behalf of Coherence or on the Media Streamer side, but whatever it is, it can’t be anything more than a mere nothing.

Meaning we are probably only one little bug apart from being able to control Elisa with the N800.

Regarding Media Streamer acting itself as a controllable MediaRenderer, there it is fallen a bit short of my expectations, as it doesn’t provide anything at all – neither controlling nor eventing.

That’s definitily another good reason to get Coherence up and running on the Maemo platform.

PS: If your are like me looking for something to take a screenshot on the N800, I have been lucky with load-applet-run, and I was told @ irc://freenode.net/#maemo that the Maemo screen grabber together with the osso-screenshot-tool should work too.