AirStream Sky: Sky is the limit.

Hi Everyone,

People are buying and creating unbelievable amounts of content daily, driven by photos, personal videos, music and movie purchases. Movies and personal video have gone from standard definition to high definition - potentially going to ultra-high definition and the trend is clearly moving more toward online purchasing. Music downloads surpassed CD sales and, even in light of successful streaming services; online music sales continue to grow year over year. Digital photography and videography have also surpassed their physical counterparts. Indeed, photos and videos are no longer things you take only on vacation or on special occasions. Smartphones have enabled us all to shoot photos and video all day long. All these devices are continuously increasing resolution, and thus file size.

Buying more and more devices, not just the laptops and desktops that have been in our homes for years, it increasingly includes smartphones, tablets, web-enabled televisions and gaming systems, home media servers and more.  This results in people spreading files across all these devices each time they use them and pushing files to online services like Flickr, Dropbox, Google Docs and YouTube.

Some difficulties/disadvantages of Cloud system:

1.      Security and Privacy.

2.      Time-consuming Data transfer/ Latency for accessing data.

3.      Cost.

4.      Possible downtime i.e. completes dependency on third party.

 

People will not stop buying more devices, using online services and spreading files across all of them.

A complete solution must unify all your files everywhere, regardless of how much storage is available, or it is useless.



Most of the users have content ownership i.e. even the data is on cloud they also want that with them (at Home). 


The solution must be cheap, because people expect it to be a feature of all their devices, like Wi-Fi.

Your home computer is the perfect machine. It's customized to your exact needs and holds every important file you'd ever need to access. The catch: It's not exactly, always practically possible to carry a computer with you everywhere you go. That's where remote machine access comes in picture.

Introducing Airsteam Sky one of the feature of android application "AirStream Stream Over Air" which allows you to connect your home/office desktop/pc and stream/access/download your content over Internet,  Securely without any third party storage (like cloud) for any amount of files you have .Just you and you’re desktop. You can access your PC/Mac from anywhere in the world. Can be said as Personal Cloud without syncing. (Uses internet cause data transfer charges on both sides). 

Easy to Setup:

1. Initial setup has an environment where pc is connected to internet with direct Ethernet wire connection, with modem/router, wireless router and Internet dongle stick.

2. For mobile/tablet setup an Internet connection using mobile data plan (3G/4G), wireless internet.

3. Login with your Airstream account on PC side and with same credentials login in an android application after successful login you can have an access to your remote desktop with intuitive user interface.

4. Shows your drives/folders/files listing as per you set-upped on your remote desktop. You can browse, view files and download it. Your mobile devices will have access to all your files which you have stored from last few years.  That means you can listen to any/all your music without syncing your device or watch any of your movies and videos without syncing your device.  You will be able to see your captured memories i.e photos you’ve taken, no matter how many you have.  You can open any document you have, all your files which your device supports.

5. Working on multiple OS. Has runnable jar file: exe forWindows, deb for Linux and app for Mac etc. 

6. If your desktop PC/Mac using router for internet connection. Airstream Suite using Upnp, Upnp is by default enabled on your router but if it is not you have to manually enable it. (All modern routers use upnp today).

Known not working case:

      1. Wireless Hotspot used connections.

 Cases still remain to check:

       1.      Multiple router i.e. router behind router and then pc.

       2.      Multiple network connection choice

a.      Laptop is having wired connection to 1st router and wireless connection to 2^nd router.

b.      Having both wired connection direct/dongle sticks and wireless connection to router.

c.      Having both wired connection direct and direct dongle stick connection.

 
This version is in still Beta state but it fulfills what it says.