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Antifon
Prodigy III
March 25, 2021

Help with accessing a UPnP (DLNA) server

  • March 25, 2021
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I know this has been asked before, but not for quite a while, so I’m hoping things may have improved, or there may be some more relevant recent experience.

When I was having trouble getting shared folders working (my environment is Linux, which involves configuring SAMBA which is not exactly simple) it was suggested that setting up a UPnP media server instead should be easier.

It turns out that setting up the UPnP server was easy under Linux, but getting the Sonos controller to see it is not!

I chose to use Rygel as the server (rather than MiniDLNA, which has not been maintained for years), and it was almost trivial to set up. If I use VLC Media Player or Windows Media Player I can see the files on the server and play them remotely without a problem, but the Sonos controller does not display the server when I look at the Browse screen, or anywhere else for that matter.

Can anyone suggest things to try that they think I may have missed? Unfortunately I don’t think Sonos document exactly what they support in terms of DLNA, so I’m working in the dark a bit here...

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MartinP26
Lyricist II
May 12, 2021

Ok.
Understood.
Yeah, I was trying to avoid havin 2 use any ‘cloud’ services cause if want to alert ‘Smoke detected in kitchen’ and the internet is off…

Mmm, I thought u could get all sorts of ‘state’ info by just calling the SOAP requests and would then b abl 2 pause, play alert and continue.

Wow, what an introduction to live music. Crikey, 4 hours. Worth it though I imagine. :-)

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