UPNP server accessible from television

koral · 2010-08-31 11:54:55

Hi,

I have a television able to play movies from a remote source via UPNP. It is on the same LAN as my computer, and I disabled my firewall. I tried to create an UPNP server with both xbmc and mediatomb, but nothing happens in my television: I always get that "No signal" message when trying to discover UPNP servers.

Is there some step I would have missed ? Where could I possibly get log information about what's going on with my UPNP server ?

In case you wonder, I indeed activated the UPNP share in XBMC, and I added the directory containing videos as a source.

Thank you for your answers.

Last edited by koral (2010-08-31 23:32:33)

zenlord · 2010-08-31 16:46:52

You probably didn't multicat the upnp-service over your LAN, so that your television is not picking up the signal.

I have made a 'stub'-article in our wiki for bits and pieces of information relevant to setting up a mediaserver: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Streaming_media

In my /etc.rc.conf, the network section is configured like this:

hostname="mediaserver"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
multicast="-net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 eth0"
ROUTES=(!gateway multicast)
...
DAEMONS=(... network ...)

HTH.

koral · 2010-09-01 10:39:23

It didn't fix it. I'm in a 192.168.0.0/24 LAN, so I of course used the following line:

multicast="-net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0"

However, I don't use the network daemon; instead, I use netcfg so maybe it didn't even take into account the ROUTES parameter...

koral · 2010-09-04 12:47:51

Up ?

Ashren · 2010-09-04 12:50:31

Perhaps you need to enable UPNP on your router? My aging zyxel router has this option, I've never needed it though.

Chahine · 2010-09-04 13:47:58

Actualy it's already enabled, should have mentionned it earlier.

Ashren · 2010-09-04 15:01:23

Can you see the UPNP shared material with other software/phones/djmount* etc.?

* djmount: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13817

Chahine/koral: Why two accounts?

Last edited by Ashren (2010-09-04 15:02:19)

zenlord · 2010-09-06 08:42:52

koral wrote:

It didn't fix it. I'm in a 192.168.0.0/24 LAN, so I of course used the following line:
multicast="-net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0"
However, I don't use the network daemon; instead, I use netcfg so maybe it didn't even take into account the ROUTES parameter...

1. I try to use netcfg where I can, but to use multicast, I switched back to plain ol' network.
2. I don't think you should change the ip-address / -range. My network is also on 192.168.x.x.

Zl.

Arch Linux

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UPNP server accessible from television

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