is dlna working now on 0.29? SOLVED on 0.28

[weff]

I've been trying to get DNLA working to Android/Kodi/VLC on 0.28 this week. I finally noticed the wiki page that says it's not working on that rev.

Does that imply that 0.29 is OK or that 0.27 is the last actually working release?


Thanks

[weff]

Hmmm weird. After struggling with 0.28 this for a day now, it suddenly started working with VLC (but not kodi-17)!

Worrying thing is I don't know what fixed it!

[weff]

This seems to be it:

The dlna client on linux appears to need a port opened to see the server. So
far, vlc and kodi work as long as the firewall is down when I start
them. Once they see the server then the firewall can be put up again.

vlc dlna client appears to be listening on 49152 (but this could be random)

For completeness, on the dlna server, open ports 111/tcp 8200/tcp 1900/udp

[weff]

I think I'm now happy with this on mythtv-0.28. In summary:

On the Mythtv/dlna server, open ports 111/tcp 8200/tcp 1900/udp

On the dlna client either disable the firewall (that's how android runs, it appears) or use this tweak to the firewall on the client to allow a minimal port opening for ports 32000-60000/udp (ssdp protocol?) to just the dlna server:

This is for Fedora-27:

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firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="192.168.0.19" port protocol="udp" port="32000-60000" accept'
firewall-cmd --reload

My dlna server is fixed at 192.168.0.19

It results in this new rule in iptables:

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ACCEPT udp --  192.168.0.19 anywhere udp dpts:32000:60000 ctstate NEW

Hope that helps anyone else struggling with this.

[weff]

Sigh! I'm not done yet. The solution above is working for vlc client. kodi-17.6 is still broken - even with the client firewall completely down, it fails to see the MythTv DLNA server. It does see the minidlna server however - but not the videos/mp3s!!!