[mythtv-users] uPnP

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:36:36 +0800, you wrote:

>It has been a while (Rev 29) since I used uPnP since my Samsung TV did/does not play nicely with myth.
>I decided to play-with again on my 34 backend.
>
>I see no sign of mythtv!
>Windows is an alien landscape, but I setup a NUC with windows10 to help a friend, so I used that to try to see. 
>I can browse the normal:6455 but I cannot see any sign uPnP.
>
>All my googling expose a host (no pun) of SERVERS but no CLIENTS.
>
>1) how would I tell if my backend was running a server
>2) what can I use to be a client
>
>Thanks
>James

From my Windows 11 box, if I go to Networks in File Explorer, I can
see both of my v34 MythTV boxes listed as "MythTV AV media server".
Opening the icons takes me to port 6550 in my default browser, which
is the mythbackend builtin web server.  I also get another icon
"MythTV AV Renderer" which takes me to mythfrontend port 6551, which
gives me a mythfrontend status page.  I can take a minute or two
before all the icons show up.

In Linux, I do not know of any software which does a similar job of
finding everything that is advertising itself on the network.  It may
exist though.  For just finding uPnP servers, VLC works OK.