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DLNA using BubbleUPnP (Chromecast renderer)
musicmahn:
Ugh feeling pretty down.
Using BubbleUPnP to create a DLNA media renderer for my Chromecast Audio and it's turning out spottier than I thought it would be :(
For one thing "Living Room Speaker" doesn't always show up when opening MC. IDK if this is a BubbleUPnP problem or perhaps if I'm being impatient.
I sat there and waited and finally got frustrated enough to open Bubble on my NAS to see if it was running properly. It actually showed an error for it's "internet connectivity test" but I don't think that matters to me running this on the LAN. All said I did nothing at all and then my chromecast magically showed up on MC. This is probably a good 5-10 minutes after I opened it.
So great, everything is back only when I go to play a song to "There: Living Room Speaker" nothing happens. The track name and duration appears up top, play button turns to the pause button. But the track stays on 0:00 elapsed and hitting the stop or pause button does nothing.
I just tried to play from my PC instead of the tablet and it gives me a "playback error/problem with DLNA connectivity".
Now I just restarted the BubbleUPnP server, restarted MC. MC again isn't seeing the Living Room Speaker. I picked up my phone and fired up Plex and started playing music so I know at a minimum the Chromecast is working fine. Came back 30 min later and I see the Speaker. For fun I closed MC down and started back up, only to sit there for 5 minutes and not see it pop back up.
Thoughts anyone??? :(
AndrewFG:
I suppose your system is not routing the UPnP SSDP M-Search UDP Multicasts or more likely the respective UDP Unicast responses, that would allow MC to quickly search for and discover your renderer. And so instead it is falling back on the SSDP NOTIFY UDP Multicasts that renderers also send from time to time.
Perhaps a setting on your router, or on the av/firewall software on your PC. In particular make sure that port 1900 is open.
Also, if you have more than one digital media server (instance) running on the same PC, it may be that the other(wrong) instance is receiving the UDP multicast or unicast messages.
Scobie:
I have this setup and it generally works pretty well but every now and then it does drop off the ether.
I've found the problem is generally around the Bubble server being able to see the CC device. Of course if it cannot see the CC then it wont show up in MC. This will normally happen if there has been a network glitch inside the house somewhere.
So first thing I would check is to see whether Bubble actually lists the CC device as an available renderer.
What I need to do when it does not is kick my router. Sometimes just restarting the CC will work but no amount of Bubble/MC restarts will do the trick.
musicmahn:
Well AndrewFG nearly spoke another language to me there lol. I know how to open ports though so I will try 1900 as you suggest.
Scobie's reply makes me sad. Every test I've done here the chromecast is sitting there set up on the Media Renderer tab in BubbleUPnP.
I first tried Musicbee in this journey and it was pretty horrible trying out this setup. JRiver has been quite pleasing for awhile but now I'm facing some of the same hiccups. Wondering if Roon might do a better job but I'm not as keen on their visual interface.
FWIW there is a Plex server library option that often comes up (which i never touch) and this also struggles to pop up in the way that the Chromecast does. I just opened MC right now and neither are showing.
Feels like the Chromecast is a big issue here too and that MC would run better with it's official product or something else idk.
Plex works like a f'n dream but I just cannot accept the inability to tweak to my liking.
The struggle is real! I want something that JUST works (NAS to CC using a tablet to trigger) like Plex but is beautiful and with endless options like JRiver :(
****OK so I'm trying to mess with the ports and realize maybe I just don't know what I'm doing :)
-In my Router I made a line tied to an IP addy and it currently says: Destination Ports 52199 TCP Any -> 52199
-In my Windows Firewall it appears I didn't have to pick an IP? It's showing TCP 52199
Thing is I'm generally confused about IPs. When I try to enter my NAS via Chrome sometimes I'll find that the bookmark I saved no longer works. Through using a discovery software I learn that the end digits of the IP have changed and I need to then update my bookmark.
The IP I used above in my Router, I'm not sure what it points to or what I even intended it to point to in the first place??
Whatever the case, Plex sure as heck always knows where to find things???
****Another update. Just left MC alone for an hour and come back to see Plex and the Living Room speaker.
I tried to play a song, I heard it connect to the Chromecast, the song show 5 seconds of playing (though i heard no music) and then stopped.
I've tried a few songs and same result each time.
?
AndrewFG:
--- Quote from: musicmahn on October 31, 2019, 10:30:32 am ---
Well AndrewFG nearly spoke another language to me there lol. I know how to open ports though so I will try 1900 as you suggest.
--- End quote ---
:)
Try downloading the DMRA from my sig, and see if it discovers your renderer.
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