myiHome5.2.0

myiHome is a Windows software application whose purpose is to help you view media files, be they songs, videos or images, on your home entertainment system. You can watch movies, listen to different audio files and check out your photo collection directly on your TV screen.

User interface

The tool adopts a clean and intuitive layout that allows you to work with four tabs, namely Home, Video, Music and Photo. The Home panel is dedicated for sharing your digital content stored in your network through your TV screen.What’s more, the utility is able to automatically recognize the video, audio and image files placed in the corresponding folders from your computer, namely My Videos, My Music and My Pictures. You need to make sure that the items are placed in the aforementioned directories otherwise the app does not display them.

Video, audio and image settings

You can make myiHome play videos in a random order, choose a photo album for music playback, play music in a random order, select a playlist for the slideshow, show each slide for a user-defined time (in seconds), as well as play slides in a random order. The program works with different file formats, such as AAC, AIFF, MP3, WAV, PLS, MPEG4, MOV and MP4.

General configuration settings

myiHome gives you the possibility to change the video, audio and image path locations where all your items are stored, and specify additional directories for clips, songs and pictures. These additional folders are automatically updated when new changes are detected.When it comes to system configuration parameters, you can view the computer name and IP address, enter the port number, set up a password, as well as enable the MAC address control.Last but not least, you can stream music from your iTunes library, scan for song information in order to retrieve ID3 tags for MP3 songs on your TV screen, as well as make photos fit the screen, reveal them in full screen or show them using their actual size.

Bottom line

All in all, myiHome comes with a decent suite of features for helping you stream media content on your TV, and is suitable for all types of users, regardless of their experience level. On the downside, it hasn’t been updated for a while so it may cause compatibility issues on newer operating systems.