I’m trying to integrate my minidlna server into HA but don’t seem to find any working configuration. The minidlna server is working fine (streaming music or movies to VLC clients, network receiver, smart TV etc)
Reading the documentation of the DLNA Digital Media Renderer there is a required paramter URL pointing to an XML descriptor file.
What would be the correct URL for a default minidlna install ? Is there anything to be edited on the minidlna.conf file (presentation_url, perhaps)?
Looking forward to learn from your experience with minidlna + HA
Not sure how you made out after this, but if you found a useful setup I’d love to hear about it.
The integration you’re using here is the DLNA ‘renderer’ so it is referring to devices that media can be played on (smart tv and that sort of thing).
What I think you were looking for (and I am too) is a DLNA ‘server’ integration (this is where the media comes from). As far as I know home assistant does not have this, but I don’t understand why.
The other thing I don’t understand is how the DLNA renderer integration is useful without a server integration.
So for now I ignore the media side of things in HA, feels like something I’d just spend a lot of time fighting with instead of watching my movies.
minidlna is a server only (will not play music - just stores it and sends it to the player when required . So the ‘dlna renderer’ integration will not understand it.
So - the way to get it to work is
Install the DLNA Server (the place where your music is stored) integration in HA
This will detect the minidna server - it should be listed under the known servers in the server integrations ‘box’ on the integration page
Install the DLNA renderer integration, it should detect your player (media renderer) - here I am using an Arylic Upstream2 - other renderers are available
Now go to the MEDIA tab on you HA home page - you should see a number of sources
I have:
DLNA Servers
Local media
Radio
TTS
Click on DLNA servers - and you should see you mldna server - click on it to choose music - click on the ‘cast’ icon in the bottom right corner to choose the destination (dfaults to browser - should be able to choose your renderer)
hello,
I have the problem to install my DLNA from HA integrations. it tells me that there is no DLNA server,
but I run OMV6 and here I have my mini DLNA server instaled and properly working on all other machines, so what can be the matter that HA DLNA server not found my mini DLNA on OMV6?