Thread: DLNA notification hack
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Graham Cobb is offline Graham Cobb
2011-01-19 , 15:06
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Originally Posted by sconf View Post
However, I noticed that Zhaan is key. If Zhaan is not running, Mediabox don't discover server. As soon as Zhaan is running, both Mediabox and Zhaan find server, Media player don't. Zhaans seems to duplicate the multicast messages that ssdp-fake is creating (and ssdp-fake ignores them).
I don't understand why you are seeing different behaviour from me (I am not running Zhaan) but I am not an expert on this at all! I do note that my hack reacts to seeing any M-SEARCH multicasts flying around by sending its own multicast out again (it doesn't actually parse the message or respond with a unicast). So, having Zhaan running will probably increase the number of times the announcements get sent.

I guess the real answer is a full remote DLNA implementation (which someone was working on in last year's GSoC but I don't think was completed).

Until then, this is something which seems to work for me but it looks like it may not work for other people -- sorry.

Graham