![]() The good thing about UPnP is that it takes care of all the comms implicitly if each element conforms to the protocols it just works. My own preference is to keep them discrete, allowing better optimisation of each component. Of course, when it comes to physically implementing the model the different elements might be combined into the same hardware (your RPi could be both the library server and a renderer for example). It enables an item to be selected from the library and directs it to the chosen renderer. This obtains and displays, nicely formatted, metadata about the music library contents (obtained from the server) and about the available renderers. This will be your box with Volumio on it. There's a lot more to it but simplistically they 'play' the music file. The client, in our case normally referred to as renderers, accept data from the server and process it. The server's role is to serve data, upon request, to clients, where it will be processed. AssetUPnP) that indexes the music library but doesn't actually 'play' anything. Typically the server will run some software (i.e. The server is where the data is held, in my case my library of FLAC files. Here's my simplistic logical working mode of a UPnP environmentl: I don't know what Volumio is doing with the setting you dscovered I never used it and, as I said, with UPnP Volumio doesn't need to explicitly know about the contents of the library. I have tried posting on both Volumio and dBpoweramp forums but no luck yet! IP address - I know this 192.168.1.107Ĥ Remote directory ( Specify the directory name on the NAS where to scan music files (case sensitive) - I haven't a clue what this should be.Ĭurrently when I set the IP and use SMB/CIFS and don't specify the remote directory I get the message "Mount:Connection refused"ĭoes anybody with better computing skills than me know how to do this? Choose between SMB/CIFS or NFS (I think the answer is SMB/CIFS)ģ. Source name - which I can apparently make anything upĢ. Looking at the Volumio web gui I can add a NAS drive and it asks the following questions:ġ. The next step is to get the Asset software to communicate with Volumio. There is also a tree of files underneath and if I click on "albums" then "all albums" I can select and play music on my PC from the NAS. Using my windows 8 PC I can see "Asset UPnP:raspberrpi" on my network and when I right click on this and check the properties it says that the IP address is 192.168.1.107 which is correct. ![]() I downloaded the raspberry pi version of dBpoweramps asset UPnP and after a bit of a battle (Raspbian wheezy didn't initially like my ntfs hard drive) I managed to the software to work.
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