Personalize the Podcasts on your Chumby (sneak peak)

Secret Sneak Peak at Mediafly Alpha Sync Points... You can now personalize the podcasts on your Chumby beta control panel.  You can now deliver all your Mediafly podcast channels to your Chumby. As you change your feeds on Mediafly they are immediately changed on your Chumby.

Important note: This service is still in Alpha on Mediafly but I'll give you the secret link to give it a try. I'm using it for 2 of my Chumby's (or is it Chumbi?) and it works great.  For those of you not brave enough to try it in Alpha, the official version will launch in the next couple months. (note: The other sync points, such as PSP, are not functional yet).

Here are the steps to personalize your Chumby (and a nice little visual below to show you).

1) Create a Mediafly account if you have not already and create your channels. You can always add/remove/modify them later. Your Chumby will adjust automatically.

2) Login to the Chumby website with your Chumby user id and password.

3) Make sure you are using the Beta Control Panel (or if this is sometime later in 2008 this is probably supported on the official control panel).

4) Find your Chumby ID. It is the long number that appears below the picture of your Chumby (see below).  Copy that full ID.

5) Go to www.mediafly.com/mysyncpoints.aspx, Click on the add a Chumby link

6) Paste your full Chumby ID into the box provided (shown below).  Press Save.

7) Reboot your Chumby by pressing the little on/off button on the back.

8) Your Chumby is now synced with your Mediafly account. You should now see all of your Mediafly Channels in the Mediafly audio source on your Chumby.

If you have any questions, you can email me at www.mediafly.com/contactus ... but remember this service is in Alpha and I'm only mentioning it because it is very cool and I think you can get good use out of it while we polish the interface and the features.

Good luck!