[mythtv-users] Trying to use upnp, weird issues

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Jun 5 18:16:45 UTC 2009


On Friday 05 June 2009 12:05:38 Mark J. Small wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm trying to use the upnp features of mythtv to serve my music and
> pictures. I'm using the 0.21 packages from the stable tree of
> debian-multimedia.org on a Debian Stable system.
>
> I've installed djmount on a separate machine, and it does not see any upnp
> servers on my internal network.
>
> I've read the the ip address (not localhost), must be entered in to the
> backend for upnp to work properly.  Well Mythtv-setup has the proper ip
> address entered, but the setup->general screen in mythfrontend points to
> localhost.  If I try to change this, then I can no longer connect to the
> database, and the backend will not restart either.
>
> I've used nmap to check the standard upnp ports, but tcp 5000, 1900 and udp
> 1900 are all closed.
>
> Does anyone have any advice?

You need to have the real IP in both locations in your setup. I guess this 
means figuring out why things don't work when you set things up that way.

I entered the real IP of a combined FE/BE machine in both locatons in the 
setup, once I did that the UPnP server function worked fine.

Even if you could get the UPnP functions running with "localhost" you would 
still have a problem, because the URLs that your UPnP control point tried to 
go to would contain the localhost address, which would obviously not work.

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