Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi

DaveT · Today 15:20:40

I'm running devuan Arm64 on a Kunbus Raspberry Pi industrial computer.
It's job is to be a server for my hifi system.
After 15 years I waved godbye to Sonos and moved on to a Cambridge Audio ONE media player. Because 'reasons'.
The Cambridge Audio ONE cannot work with samba - Richer Sounds lied to me is all I have to say!
It needs a UPnP media server.
OK, they exist, let's go to it...

1) gerbera
easy install, terrible documentation on setting up the gerbera.conf file. ALL of the documentation is bad.
With a bit of faffing it was sort of running but the Web GUI would NOT work. No way to add the audio fiiles into the sqlite database it uses.
Searching turned up no useful info.
I purged it.

2) minidlna
easy install. very little to modify in minidlna.conf.
Works!
Logs some FLAC errors but we are looking good.
The Cambridge One StreamMagic app seems happy and away we go!
Except. Some folders are empty. Why? No-one knows. Very little info on fixing issues.
If I can't fix the 'No Content' problem in the Captain Beefheart directories then another purge is coming on!
I did meet him in the early 1980s. Met Winged Eel fingerling too. Very gentle soft-spoken man.

I suppose I might not be clever enough to follow obscure documentation, but if I can't get it to work then it is useless to me.
Watch this space for how it all turns out!

Last edited by DaveT (Today 15:23:05)

greenjeans · Today 16:08:50

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