Vu+ Player is an Android app designed to allow control of and streaming from your Vu+ satellite receivers, either from home, or from a remote location. Although designed for the Vu+ range of satellite receivers, it should work with any satellite receiver compatible with Enigma2. 

 

Vu+ Player (like most other third-party applications that need to communicate with your receiver) requires that OpenWebIf (OWIF), or alternatively WebIf, is working correctly.

 

for streaming of TV and movies, a rather powerful Android-device is required but most high end devices sold in the past two years should be sufficient. If you are an owner of the Vu+ Solo2, you can enable transcoding which will allow even low end devices to work with streaming. 

 

to control your receiver remotely, you must set up corresponding portforwarding rules in your router. Typically you would need to forward port 80 (WebIf-port) to the IP-address of your receiver. For streaming remotely, you must forward port 8001 to your receiver. If you are using the transcoding-option of Vu+ Solo2 then you should forward port 8002 (default) to your receiver. 

 

for streaming of TV remotely (outside of your LAN), you need a very fast upload speed for your receiver and a rather good download speed for your Android-device. If you are using transcoding, which is currently available on Vu+ Solo2, then the upload speed can be much lower.

 

streaming of HD-content in your LAN will in most cases either not work or will be very slow. This is normal due to the bandwidth required. Also in this case, the transcoding-function of Vu+ Solo2 will help and permit streaming of HD-content. 

 

the transcoding function is experimental and still under development. Always make sure to use the lastest drivers on your receiver.

 

in case of streaming problems, the majority are not related to Vu+ Player but more likely to your network, receiver and/or Android device.

 

 

This FAQ is a "work in progress" and will be updated in the coming weeks.