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Last week I devised a cunning plan to get myself a Streamium SL300i unit. I won’t go into details concerning the plan, but it included a travelsleeper, my dad, a superb performance of the Stripe bigband (featuring my dad playing his trombone) and last but not least: my son.
The SL300i allows you to wirelessly enrich your TV and audio system with multimedia (music, pictures & movies) from your PC or directly from the internet. The actual unit is nice and small, about the size of 3 DVD jewel cases:

After wiring the unit and installing the uPnP server on our main MP3/Video machine it actually worked fine right away!

Now we can access and watch/listing all our media content without the need of wires and buring cds/dvds. Wasn’t able to get the pinkpop live streams broadcasted by the VPRO today to work (according to the manual the format can be handled by the streamium) haven’t tried really hard yet… other internet radio streams seem to work just fine!

Cool!

….. update ……
Ok, it DID work fine after the initial setup. Things have gone a long way since then…

Last night the Streamium decided it needed to install updated firmware. During the proces something seems to have gone ill. The nice part is that the Streamium is smart enough to boot the previous firmware version if things go wrong. The not-so-nice part is that the Stream starts installing new updates as soon as it boots…. and drops back to the previous version…. and boots into the previous version…. and installs updated firmware…. and drops back…. (you get the idea).

….. update …..

Miracles happen! Somehow the streamium managed to install the updated firmware (after about 70 reboots). Everything seems to be fine again!