Wifi Streaming of video from Apple Airdisk using WDTV Live Streaming MP. Can this be done? y/n

[Dilkara]

Is it possible to stream video via Wifi from a HDD connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station (aka Airdisk) using the latest WDTV Live Streaming Media Player? Has anybody had success with this? Y/N. Not sure if this is possible. I've had no success thus far. Currently I cannot see the Airdisk using WDTV. No problems seeing and connecting to Airdisk using a PC or MAC. I can also stream from the HDD when direct connected to my MAC. If yes, are there any tips and tricks to make this work? Thanks in advance.

[cuernudo]

Did you ever where able to connect your WD TV to your Apple Airdisk? I try few times at work and it failed ALL the time.

[Dilkara]

Cuerndo, no I haven't been able to get it to work. And I can't find a definitive answer whether it can be done or not either.

WDTV does not see the Airdisk even though it's a Samba server. Both my MAC (via Wifi) and PC (via Ethernet) can access the Airdisk. I believe that it's probably a limitation of the WDTV. It would be nice to have some manual functionality (network wise) in the WDTV so that at least troubleshooting / connectivity is easier. Being able to manually configure ip addresses of network drives or even the ability to 'ping' a device would be beneficial.

The only thing I haven't tried is connecting the WDTV to the AEBS via ethernet cable and accessing the HDD this way. This may work, however as I'm never going to use this method I haven't bothered. This method is not considered as an 'Airdisk' anyway, just a HDD connected to a router.

Has anybody been able to get this to work?

[akipal]

i noticed that wdtv appears in network as WDTVLiveHub then there is another shared folder named WDTVLiveHub

so the path to the folder would be \\WDTVLiveHub\WDTVLiveHub

and i checked the path for AIRDisk

first in the network, it appears as AIRPORT-EXTREME then inside there is drive name whatever you named it

i noticed that WDTV uses exact same name for device name and share name

so i changed my drive name to AIRPORT-EXTREME

in sorder to change the name of drive you have to connect to mac then change the name and then put it back to airport extreme

i don't know how to change it on time capsule since i don't own one

then you should be able to connect and see all files inside of airdisk