Emby DLNA not appear on TV media center

[mcgyver83 0]

I'm running emby in an openmediavault instance on a raspberry pi2.
I turned up my 2  tv, an LG LF590V and a Panasonic AS650.

Both are recognized in the cast menu (together with "My devices" obviously).

When I try to browse DLNA server from both Emby DLNA doesn't appear. If I start minidlna this shows up quickly in the TVs menu.
I set "Blast alive messages" at 30sec, "Enable Dlna server" is checked and also "Enable DLNA Play To"..
What's happen?

 

attached the log after a server restart

server-63583820979.txt

[Luke 38827]

Hi, try updating to the latest version of Emby Server. In addition, the next release will improve this.

[mcgyver83 0]

I'm running Version 3.1.158.0 beta.
Nothing I can check to identify the issue?

[Luke 38827]

Hi, your log is from a really old version. Are you sure or did you just update today?

 

As far as what the issue might be, I have an LG for testing which works fine. I do not have a panasonic. But a server log from the time of the attempt might help tell us how far in process it got.

[mcgyver83 0]

You mean the version I see in the Admin page is old or the log looks like coming from an old version?
How can I update?
Usually I update the LINK line there "/usr/share/openmediavault/mkconf/emby" using the last version taken there "https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/tags" and run the update.
Is it right?

Edited September 24, 2016 by mcgyver83

[Luke 38827]

When did you last do that?

[mcgyver83 0]

a week ago.
I did it again now with version 3.1.164.
Tomorrow I'm going to truncate the log, restart the server with dlna enabled and post again the log.

[Happy2Play 9140]

Not sure how you have logs this old but you posted a log from 2015.

 

2015-11-22 20:29:39.5619 Info - App: Application version: 3.0.5781.2

Edited September 24, 2016 by Happy2Play

[mcgyver83 0]

Sorry wrong log, now the right one.
You can see that I turned up the Panasonic.
I see a lot of lines, looks like emby tries to control the tv.
I went to "Media server: on the panasonic tv but no dlna sources found

server-63610401221.txt

[mcgyver83 0]

No news?

[Luke 38827]

No news?

 

Right now i"m unable to reproduce the problem with all of my test devices, including an LG, sorry.

[mcgyver83 0]

The error shown in the last line isn't relevant?

[Luke 38827]

No because that's related to remote control. We were probably trying to query playback status and it failed.

[mcgyver83 0]

Using the  3.0.7300.0 DLNA is working fine.

[Luke 38827]

Perhaps you can do some wireshark investigation to compare the stable and beta releases and find out what's missing? thanks.

[mcgyver83 0]

Idon't know what you are talking about when you say "wireshark"
How can I do this?

[rafivanatv 0]

Hi,

I'm experiencing similar problem with my LG LB730V TV.

On clean start of Emby Server, LG DLNA client (SmartShare) sees EMBY as DLNA resource and it can play a file without a problem. However, after I  press "go back to file listing" or "play next item" buttons, the Emby server disapears from the list of available DLNA resources.

I can still choose from the Emby Android app to cast a file to the LG TV, but can't use the Smart Share LG app to browse the directories.

 

Funny thing is if I restart Emby Server,  Emby DLNA resource shows again in the listings of DLNA devices.
It's like a one-time-play, and afterward I have to restart Emby.

 

Looking in the logs, I found errors (partial log attached ).

 

This problem started to happen for me since version 3.0.8100.

 

Might it be with the rework of UPNP discovery?

 

P.S.  All files are played with Direct Play, no transcoding

partialServerLog.txt

[Luke 38827]

This should be resolved for the next release, thanks.

[psxlover 31]

Same problem here, the TV does not display the Emby server.

Running "3.1.6147.6525 dev" on a netbook. My TV is an LG NetCast model.

(Note that it still displays my main server that is on Version 3.0.5972.0 due to the bug with greek subtitles I'm experiencing with versions > 5983.)

Edited October 31, 2016 by psxlover

[psxlover 31]

Quick update on this. My desktop (Windows 7) is showing up in the TV even when using version 8400. My netbook (Windows 10) wont show up if I use any version >= 8000.

[Luke 38827]

Interesting, thanks.

[psxlover 31]

Trying the latest beta (btw where is the option to choose which update channel to use? I had to apply it manually), the DLNA server is not showing up in my TV when running it on my Windows 7 desktop.

[Happy2Play 9140]

Trying the latest beta (btw where is the option to choose which update channel to use? I had to apply it manually), the DLNA server is not showing up in my TV when running it on my Windows 7 desktop.

It was removed, now if you want to change versions you have to use the installer.  Too many people bouncing between versions and getting stuck on old versions do to versioning numbers.

 

example if I am on beta (3.1.200.0) and downgrade to stable (3.0.8400.0) I would never get updates because my versioning in stable isn't a higher number.

Edited November 1, 2016 by Happy2Play

[psxlover 31]

Tnx for the info. Would have preferred it if it just installed the latest version on a particular channel as soon as you changed update channel, instead of this.