Haven’t noticed of AnyPlay? That’s not shocking. It really is a modest initiative slowly staying introduced by Comcast into pick cable markets. With it, you can view live tv over your house network on your iPad. So if your husband or wife is hogging the HDTV during your CW night time, you can look at Supernatural utilizing your neighborhood Wi-Fi. (Cablevision and Time Warner have equivalent apps on the App Store now.)
AnyPlay consists of two elements: there is certainly the standalone box ($ ten one-time cost) and the iPad computer software, which is built into Comcast’s current XFINITY Tv app. To get them to work collectively, you should signal into the app with your Comcast qualifications and allow AnyPlay employing the app’s settings.
On the hardware aspect of issues, Comcast provides a press streamer box — a Motorola unit in my case. Its job is to handle products and transform cable indicators into viewable video clip streams. People streams at present must be on the identical Wi-Fi network, although I think with a minor hacking and AirVideo Server, it may possibly be attainable to sooner or later get these streams to vacation out to mobile products absent from the house. With the regular package, AnyPlay is in-house only.
Environment up the box was easy. You hook it to electrical power, to cable, and to your network using an Ethernet cable. You then pay a visit to the activation web page http://comcast.com/activate and enter your account details and mobile phone amount. Theoretically this info ships with your starter kit. It was lacking for me, so I ended up possessing to monitor down a cable bill to locate my account quantity.
You can actually link to the box making use of its built-in world wide web interface. Just do a DHCP scan of your network, determine out which device it is, and connect on port 8080. Developed-in attributes consist of general alerts, device conduite, and tuner diagnostics.
It took many hrs and long assist phone telephone calls to get every thing operating. In the stop, it turns out that I necessary to electrical power-cycle the standalone box following activation due to the fact it wasn’t broadcasting properly to the iPad app.
The Comcast assistance personnel were welcoming, courteous, and specialist, but the substance they utilized to manual their assistance telephone calls have been flawed. At one point, the tech asked me to uninstall and reinstall the XFINITY Tv app on my iPad, for illustration.
The moment it acquired likely, the app and the services worked excellent. Video high quality has been excellent, and best of all, you can use AirPlay to stream the demonstrate out to Apple Television. That means you can use AnyPlay to watch dwell Comcast video clip on any Apple Television-augmented HDTV, and you can do this with out renting an extra tuner box. You can watch this video to see the AnyPlay/AirPlay relationship in motion on my home network.
For ten dollars, and no recurring fees, AnyPlay is a wonderful add-on for any Comcast TriplePlay buyer who has a very good house network and an iPad. It truly is at present deployed only in Denver and Nashville, with national roll-out expected more than the next year.
Thank you, Paul Donaldson.
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