upnp/dlna

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Guido Falsi <madpilot at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 01/15/16 14:52, Gerrit Kühn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two FreeBSD boxes running mediatomb and minidlna. I also have a
> > couple of clients, mostly internet radios by different manufacturers
> > (Sangean, Philips, Renkforce...).
> > I have the (weird) issue that neither mediatomb nor minidlna appears to
> see
> > the multicasts discovery messages (not even with tcpdump!) sent by the
> > clients. Subsequently they never answer them and are not found by the
> > client devices.
>
> I forget one thing, Are the mindlna and mediatomb installed in a jail?
> If that's the case, they will never receive multicasts and so, never
> reply, since multicasts which are not forwarded to jailed IPs. You'll
> have to install them on the main machine.
>
> I've also read this can be worked around using vimage, but I have never
> tried that
>

I have minidlna running in a jail and vimage and it is working great with
my philips "smart" tv.

Best regards
Andreas