New to MoOde so some equestions if I may please?

[simonb]

Beginner questions please.

I have moode setup on a pi4. NFS library mounted. Play through the GUI just fine.

I need to allow moode to be seen by a Cambridge Audio CXN player and the CXN supports DLNA Ver 1.5.

Now the problems start.
 Under system/file share you can have DLNA active: DONE.
 Under renderers you can have UPnP Client for MPD active ( including Quobuz account ): DONE.

So on the CXN I can sometimes see both, or just UpnP.  I loose connection all the time.

Questions: 

  1. What is UPnP Client actually used for?

  2. What is the system/file share DLNA actually for?


Thanks.

[Tim Curtis]

Beginner questions please.

I have moode setup on a pi4. NFS library mounted. Play through the GUI just fine.

I need to allow moode to be seen by a Cambridge Audio CXN player and the CXN supports DLNA Ver 1.5.

Now the problems start.
 Under system/file share you can have DLNA active: DONE.
 Under renderers you can have UPnP Client for MPD active ( including Quobuz account ): DONE.

So on the CXN I can sometimes see both, or just UpnP.  I loose connection all the time.

Questions: 

  1. What is UPnP Client actually used for?

  2. What is the system/file share DLNA actually for?


Thanks.

So my answers make sense, in the UPnP/DLNA framework there are three components:

Control Point - App that presents content from Media Server and plays to Media Renderer
Media Renderer - Connected to playback device
Media Server - Provides index of locally stored music files

1. What is UPnP Client actually used for?

It functions as a Media Renderer.

2. What is the system/file share DLNA actually for?

It functions as a Media Server.

In your setup which device, Cambridge or moode is going to be used for playback i.e., function as the Media Renderer?