Philips 9800i What You Should Know About Home Networking, Home Networking and Connected Devices

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What You Should Know About Home Networking

Home Networking and Connected Devices

The RC9800i goes one step further than ordinary universal remotes. The RC9800i is revolutionary in that it can also operate most of the connected devices in your home network.

Connected devices are devices that comply with the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) A/V Protocol. UPnP allows various devices like PCs and intelligent networked appliances (e.g. Media Adapters) to communicate with each other. More specifically, UPnP allows connected devices to find each other and to communicate about their capabilities and their content. Throughout this manual, connected devices are understood to be compliant with the UPnP A/V Protocol.

In the home plan above, a typical situation is depicted: A desktop PC (with peripherals like monitor, mouse and keyboard) and a Wireless Access Point (WAP) are located in the study.

In the living room, a flat screen TV is hanging on the wall. An audio system sits in the left-hand corner and there is a Media Adapter in the right-hand corner. The Media Adapter is wired to the flat screen TV or to the audio system.

Note A Media Adapter is a wireless digital device that allows movies, pictures or music files to be streamed from a PC to non-networked audio-video devices like conventional TVs and audio systems.

As you can see, the RC9800i on the couch in the living room, controls

not only legacy audio/video devices, such as the TV and the audio system, but also connected devices such as the PC and the Media Adapter.