Questions[upnp](ubuntu)

I'm trying to use Rygel as a dlna/upnp server and renderer on a ubuntu laptop. It is not able to see anything on the network, and no other dlna software discovers it. There are other working dlna / upnp devices so I believe I can rule out the router.

Running in debug mode at the command line like this:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all rygel -g 5

there are lines containing messages like this:

New network MY_SSID (wlp4s0) context available. IP: 192.168.8.127

which is the correct network, wifi card and ip address

In the config file the network setting is:

interface=

output from lsof filtering for my lan

lsof -i -P -n | grep 192.168.8| grep rygel

returns

rygel     25313           barry   14u  IPv4 25790052      0t0  UDP 192.168.8.127:1900 
rygel     25313           barry   16u  IPv4 25790055      0t0  UDP 192.168.8.127:37931 
rygel     25313           barry   44u  IPv4 25790056      0t0  TCP 192.168.8.127:41671 (LISTEN)

If I run another local client then it will show up on the that, so only localhost discovery works.

I have tried setting the network device to the network card in use, but it made no difference. I have not changed any other rygel config settings.

I'm attempting to use portmapper-2.1.1 (https://github.com/kaklakariada/portmapper) to get a upnp mapping to my ubuntu 16.04LTS machine.

I've got UFW configured to allow all outgoing and block incoming (aside from a few specific ports).

I thought this would work because I'm running portmapper on the ubuntu box (eg. outgoing), but isn't. I think this is due to the way upnp is setup to find clients. To be clear, with UFW disabled, portmapper works as expected.

My first thought was to just allow the port that the upnp service 'replies' on, but that seems to be random. Ex (from my UFW log):

Apr 26 19:07:34 [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp2s0 OUT= SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.161 LEN=411 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=41927 LEN=391

Apr 26 19:33:32 [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp2s0 OUT= SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.161 LEN=411 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=60212 LEN=391

(192.168.1.1 is my router, 192.168.1.161 is the ubuntu box)

I don't want to just open most/all ports to incoming udp packets for this, so the question is: Is there a UFW/iptables rule that will allow this to work that isn't just 'allow everything'?

In Ubuntu 10.10 I was using the rhythmbox-plugin-coherence package and I was happy to stream music from Rhythmbox to our internet radio box. But in 11.10 (64Bit) I can not find the package anymore, although this page claims it is in the repositories (as far as I understand). I first tried Rhythmbox 2.95 which should have a Grilo UPnP, but was not successful.

So installed the plugin according to this link with Rhythmbox 2.95:

sudo apt-get install subversion  
sudo apt-get install python-coherence  
sudo svn checkout https://coherence.beebits.net/svn/trunk/Coherence/misc/Rhythmbox-Plugin/upnp_coherence/ /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plug

ins/upnp_coherence

And I also tried:

svn checkout https://coherence.beebits.net/svn/trunk/Coherence/misc/Rhythmbox-Plugin/upnp_coherence/ /home/cds/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/upnp_coherence

But there is still no UPnP Plugin to activate in Rhythmbox (Edit>Plugins). Did anybody manage to install this in Ubuntu 11.10 or does this plugin not work anymore with the newer versions of Rhythmbox?

The newest version of rhythmbox (2.95) should have a Grilo UPnP plugin, but I can't find it in Rhythmbox and it is not enabled or available by default. I installed rhythmbox 2.95 according to this instruction in Ubuntu 11.10. The rhythmbox-plugin-coherence is not in the normal repositories anymore and so I thought it would be great to have the new rhythmbox version with pre-installed (?) Grilo plugin instead of installing from another repository.

Or do I need to install the Grilo plugin with another repository (ppa:grilo-team/ppa) in Ubuntu?

Update July 2012:
Did anybody try it with Rhythmbox 2.96 (or via ppa Rhythmbox 2.97) in Ubuntu 12.04 and the the Grilo plugin (from ppa:grilo-team/ppa)? With the normal install of Rhytmbox 2.96 and 2.97 (without additional Grilo plugin from the ppa:grilo-team/ppa) I have not seen any UPnP support. I have not had time to install the Grilo plugin yet.

Update October 2012 No grilo UPnP plugin with rhythmbox 2.98 (via ppa).

I have videos stored on one machine; I'd like to watch them on another machine. Both are running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit.

So far I've tried MediaTomb, MythTV, and python-coherence. None of the clients seem to see the servers and I definitely have connectivity between the client and server machines (so it's not a network issue).