Accessing the Sphere Encoders through Bonjour

The sphere encoders can be accessed via Bonjour on a Mac or Windows.

• Sphere Encoder 1 contains the streaming license.
• Sphere and Computer must reside on same subnet
• Network cannot block multicast DNS (Bonjour).

Mac

• Open Safari
• Go to Safari Preferences: Advanced
• Click "Include Bonjour in the Bookmarks menu" and "Include Bonjour in the Favorites bar"

• Access the Sphere encoders via the Favorites Menu or Bookmarks Menu

Windows

• Download https://hobbyistsoftware.com/bonjourbrowser
• Open Bonjour Browser
• Find the IP address of the device and go straight to it (with no :1)
• You can also go to the DNS name http://sphere-xxxx-y.local.  (http://sphere-00023-1.local.)