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This section provides information on initial setup of the Tonido Android App to access your files in your computer or in TonidoPlug.
Basic Installation
Tonido iOS Android app can be used to access any computer or TonidoPlug device. In order to access your computer, you need to install and run Tonido server.
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Is Tonido Android App compatible with Tonido Cloud?
Yes. Tonido iOS App Android App is fully compatible with all Tonido enabled devices (Tonido on Linux, Mac, Windows, Cloud) and TonidoPlug. However, the Tonido version must be upgraded to the latest Tonido inorder to use this App.
Trouble Shooting
iOS App Android App is unable to access the Tonido account
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- Ensure that Tonido server is running in your target computer. You can check that by opening a webbrowser in the computer where Tonido is running and entering http://127.0.0.1:10001 (Assuming the port is still default) in the webbrowser address. If Tonido is running the web browser will show the Tonido login page.
- If Tonido server is running, ensure that your target computer can access the internet. If firewall is running your computer and is preventing Tonido from accessing the internet, then you need to add rules to your firewall to allow Tonido to access the computer. You can check if Tonido can access the internet by entering http://<youraccount>.tonidoid.com in a webbrowser on the same computer where Tonido is running. If the web page opens and shows Tonido server, then Tonido is running
- Ensure that your iOS device Android device is connected to the network (Wifi or Cellular network) and can access the internet (Simply open safari and try to access a webpage )
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The "This Device" folder is an automatically created folder in Tonido iOS App Android App and this folder will contain all the files that you download from any of the Tonido server. Therefore, when the Tonido iOS App Android App is first installed, the "This Device" folder's subfolders will be empty.
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Read about downloading from Tonido server using Tonido iOS app Android app here.
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Using Tonido app to access files in Tonido devices or Tonido Cloud
The Tonido IOS Android App will allow you to access files on any computer running Tonido server or from TonidoPlug device. Refer to "Getting started" section for more information on setting up the account.
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Tonido Android App provides a rich audio playback experience in the form of a Music Player. Songs can be selected while browsing a folder or by loading a Playlist.
Supported Audio Formats in Tonido
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Android App
The following formats are supported for playback in Tonido iOS APPAndroid APP.
Mp3 and M4A files are supported natively by iOS device Android device and therefore are not automatically transcoded. Transcoding is available if needed (to reduce bandwidth)
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The following transcoding bitrate can be manually selected in the music player
Playlists in Tonido
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Android App
Tonido iOS app Android app allows the user to create, load new music playlists. The playlists can be created on the fly by adding music files to the "Music Player" . Songs can be added using "Queue" or "Play" on the individual song's preview pane or using "Play all Songs in Folder" or "Queue all Songs in Folder" options in the Actions menu. You can now save playlist using the following method
Save Playlist
iPadTablet: Select the "save" button on the bottom of the Music Player to create and save songs to a new playlist or replace a playlist.
iPhone/iPodPhone: Open the "playlist panel" by clicking the playlist button and click the "save" button to create or update a playlist.
Once a playlist is created, it can be accessed from any of the Tonido Clients (Android, iOS, WebUI)
Playing songs in cellular network or low bandwidth network using Tonido
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Android App
Tonido iOS Android App's music player will automatically select the best bitrate depending on the connected network.
While playing audio using the Tonido iOS Android App, the playback may be interrupted in case of bad network connection or in the case of low bandwidth networks like Cellular networks. If you experience playback interruption, then select the 64Kb/s to minimize the bandwidth requirement but this will reduce the audio quality.
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Playing Video Files Using Tonido
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Android App
Tonido supports playback of a variety of video files. But this is dependent on the computer from which the video is being played.
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All Versions of Tonido Desktop servers (Windows, Mac and Linux) have the capability to perform "Live Streaming" of incompatible video formats to iOS compatible formatsAndroid compatible formats. This requires a sufficiently powerful computer.
Tonido iOS app Android app will automatically select the best method to play the video depending on the Server capabilities.
Does Tonido Support video Streaming
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Yes. Tonido supports watching video that are in your computer without downloading to your iOS deviceAndroid device. All Tonido devices allow streaming of natively native supported formats of iOS Android (mp4).
Tonido Desktop versions (Windows, Mac and Linux) of Tonido server also supports live conversion of video formats that are not natively supported in iOS. This requires the computer to be somewhat powerful enough to perform the encoding on the fly. For all other cases, you can do "offline" transcoding to convert the videos to natively supported iOS formatsnative supported Android formats.
Supported Video Types in Tonido
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Android App
Tonido will automatically transcode (if possible).
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Tonido Desktop server has the ability to transcode a non compatible video file on the fly to allow playback of the file. This requires a sufficiently powerful computer to allow smooth playback.
How can I convert video types not supported by
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Android using Tonido
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App?
Tonido offers support to convert most video formats to iOS compatible Android compatible format using the the "Optimize for Later Playback" function in the preview window. This can also be done using the Web interface by selecting the video file and performing the "Create Optimized Video" function. Once the offline transcoding is complete (i.e. Optimized file is created), the file can be played in the iOS deviceAndroid device.
Tonido doesnt play some of my video files
Due to the huge variation in the video source files, some video files might not be converted or cannot be played due to variety of issues (High bitrates, Unknown codecs). In those cases, we can help determine the problem if you post a ample of the video file in our support forum.
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Viewing Photographs using Tonido
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Android App
Tonido iOS App allows playback of DRM files provided the iOS device is synchronized with computer's iTunes on which the movie was purchased to allow the licenses to transfer. Once that is complete, playing a DRM file will result in Tonido automatically launching mobile safari to play the video.
Viewing Photographs using Tonido iOS App
Tonido supports viewing variety of Photo formats and can display them fullscreen. Furthermore, Tonido also caches photos to allow faster retrieval of Photos after initial access.
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supports viewing variety of Photo formats and can display them fullscreen. Furthermore, Tonido also caches photos to allow faster retrieval of Photos after initial access.
Supported Photo Formats in Tonido Android App
Tonido has the ability to read and display variety of photo formats including RAW file types.
| File type |
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| JPG |
| PNG |
| CR2 |
| CRW |
| PEF |
| NEF |
| ARW |
| RAF |
| GIF |
Saving Photos to
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Android Photo Gallery
Any photo file, regardless of the photo format can be saved to the Photo Roll using Tonido iOS AppAndroid App. Tap on the Photograph to open the Preview window and tap "Save to Photo Roll" button to save!
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Accessing Document using Tonido
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Android App
Tonido iOS App will allow opening of common file formats such as txt, doc, pdf, xls, ppt etc. But specialized file formats such as CBZ are not supported. However, if there are other iOS apps Android apps that can handle those formats are installed, then the Tonido iOS Apps Android Apps allows sending those files to the compatible Apps.
Opening document using other installed
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Android App
Tonido iOS App Android App allows opening of a file (regardless of its type) using other installed iOS AppsAndroid Apps. Select the "open with" function to display the compatible installed applications.
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"Open with" function on files that are not downloaded to the device is limited to 25 MB. If you want to open a file larger than 25 MB, you should download the file first and then go the downloaded file (Navigate to the file in "This Device" local folder) and then use the "Open With" on the downloaded file.
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Download files from computer to the
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Android device
Files can be dowloaded directly to the iOS device Android device to allow access when there is no connectivity. Simply tap the "Download" button in the preview pane to download a file . You can also select "Download Folder Files" to download all the files in a given folder. You can continue working while download is in progress. However, the App must be in foreground and you should not switch to a different server until the download is completed.
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b. Photos
c. Audio
d. Video
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Upload files from
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Android device to computer
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Tonido iOS App allows uploading the following files to Tonido server (provided sufficient privileges are provided in the Tonido server)
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To check status of upload, you can select the 'Show Transfer Status" menu item in the drop down menu of "Actions" button. You can continue working while upload is in progress. However, the App must be in foreground and you should not switch to a different server until the upload is completed.
Import a file from other iOS app into Tonido iOS App
Tonido iOS App can import any file into its local "This Devices" Folder. In order to import a file from a different iOS App into Tonido iOS App, Open the other iOS App and select the file to export and select "Open in" or "Open with" or similar option (this varies in wording).
In the option that is displayed, Tonido will be shown as well. Select Tonido. This will cause the file to be imported into Tonido. Once imported, the file is saved in one of the following four folders depending on the type of the file being imported.
a. Documents
b. Photos
c. Audio
d. Video
Here is an example where a file is being exported from a different iOS App.
you should not switch to a different server until the upload is completed.
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Edit (copy/paste/delete) files on computer using
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the Tonido Android App
This function is currently available only when the Tonido iOS App is running in iPad. Furthermore, the backend server can be configured to prevent file edits/deletes as well.
The edit function allows the user to copy, paste or delete files and folder in the remote computer. Care should be taken when using the delete function as it will result in permanent deletion of the file or folder.
To begin editing, click on the "Edit" button on the bottom of the folder that you want to edit. This will show three buttons (Delete, Copy, Paste). Select file or folder and click on one of the three options.
The Delete button will ask for confirmation before deleting the file or folder permanently. Selecting copy or move will change the buttons to "Paste" and "Cance". At this point, you can navigate to the target folder and
select 'Paste".
How do I
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edit files in "This device" section in
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Android? How do
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I delete downloaded files?
Tonido iOS v4.0.1 allows deleting downloaded files in iPhone by swiping the element that needs to be deleted. Once you swipe the row of an element that needs to be deleted, a delete button will be shown to delete that item.
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Guest access using Tonido
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Android App
Tonido iOS App Android App can log in using guest access credentials. In that case the app will disable functions that are available only for the admin user. All other functions will be available as is.
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Share a file or folder
Tonido iOS App Android App allows sharing of files and folder in the following ways
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How do I jump to base folder after navigating deep into a directory tree?
In Tonido iOS v4.0 onwards, the iPad tablet version will allow jumping to base folder by tapping the "Files" option on the left column view.In Tonido iOS v4.0.1 onwards, the iPhone version will allow jumping to the base folder by tapping the "Files" option on the bottom bar.
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