Re: [Hampshire] Minidlna

I installed it from the arch wiki - it worked a treat.

On 17 October 2017 at 13:25, Rafał Frąckowiak via Hampshire <
hampshire@???> wrote:

> @Rob
> Start with basics, is the service running? Maybe firewall is blocking sth?
> Have you checked logs?
>
> Arch wiki should be useful as well.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ReadyMedia
>
> Cheers,
> Rafal
>
>
> On 17 Oct 2017, at 14:18, Chris Malton via Hampshire <
> hampshire@???> wrote:
>
> Replying to self (bad form in a way):
>
> media_dir=/path/to/folder
> db_dir=/var/cache/minidlna
> log_dir=/var/log
> port=8200
> serial=681019810597110
> inotify=yes
> album_art_names=Cover.jpg/cover.jpg/AlbumArtSmall.jpg/albumartsmall.jpg
> album_art_names=AlbumArt.jpg/albumart.jpg/Album.jpg/album.jpg
> album_art_names=Folder.jpg/folder.jpg/Thumb.jpg/thumb.jpg
>
> That is the uncommented content of the minidlna.conf file.
>
> Minidlna is running as the "minidlna" user. - Routine install from apt-get.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
> On 15/10/17 13:05, Chris Malton via Hampshire wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> I am running minidlna on a Raspi for streaming media and it works well.
>
> I will see if I can dig out the config when I get home tonight.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
> On 15/10/17 10:30, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Has anyone had any success running minidlna? For the life of me, I can’t
> see what I’m doing wrong. It’s installed and according to
>
> sudo services minidlna status
>
> it seems to be running ok but I can’t see it either on the server’s file
> manager (which is Xenial) or on any (Windows) clients. Disconcertingly,
> it doesn’t even appear to be building a database or logging to anywhere.
> I have faffed at length with /etc/minidlna.conf but to no avail.
> Apparently you can either run it as yourself, and ensure minidlna.conf is
> pointing at directories that you have write permission to. The
> alternative (and default) is for it to run as a (non-logging in) user
> called minidlna. In this case, said user minidlna must have write
> permissions to all directories specified in minidlna.conf. Not wanting
> the hassle of chmod hierarchies, I went for the former option and specified
> it as such user=myname in /etc/minidlna.conf.
>
> Is there a winning formula out there? The reason I’m trying to set this
> up is I rather fancy [2] and sadly it only works with dlna.
>
> Cheers
> Rob
> [2]
> https://www.sevenoakssoundandvision.co.uk/p-15794-marantz-m-cr611-music-
> streaming-cd-dab-system-ex-speakers.aspx?gclid=
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