Play all your media from anywhere on the Internet for free with WebGuide for Windows Home Server!

January 17, 2008 by mike · Leave a Comment

Microsoft have recently released a free add-in for Microsoft’s popular Windows Home Server software which lets you access your home server remotely across the internet, and play movies, music or pictures from your media library.

Products to access media remotely through the Internet are not new, Winamp has their own branded version of the open-source Orb solution, and there are numerous other small shareware applications for distributing media. However, this is the first addon to explicitly support the new Windows Home Server and it supports one extra facility that existing products for Windows Home Server do not - scheduling of TV content.

Using this addon, you can browse the TV listings and remotely schedule TV listings to be automatically recorded. Something which you then can of course watch the recordings back again later. Slingbox does something similar, but it’s not free and doesn’t integrate with Windows Home Server and your existing Windows Home Server library. Although I don’t think it will be long before SlingMedia have this issue covered. I think many home prosumer users will be looking to consolidate all the content across their home systems under the Windows Home Server banner. GB-PVR, the open source solution also provides remote access and remote scheduling, but the configuration and setup interface is not as neat as WebGuide.

If you’ve been reading my post on building your own Windows Home Media Server, then this addon would sit very well alongside Windows Home Server