Multicast frequency

[JochyN 0]

"New" clients usually don't find my EMBY server. It takes a while, as SSDP multicasts are only sent every minute. This sucks.

 

Sure, a minute is not much, but it is way too much if you sit there and wait for it. I'd like to set the frequency to - let's say - 20 seconds. Maybe this even exists, but I didn't find it. I looked into these xml files at /var/lib/emby/config/

 

I'm running Emby on Debian Linux.

[Luke 42078]

HI, what is an example of a new client?

[JochyN 0]

12 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, what is an example of a new client?

It's a client coming in, connecting to WiFi and wants to stream. 1-minute multicasts work fine for clients that are already connected, but these new clients have to wait for up to 60 seconds, so they complain, it does not work.

[ebr 16174]

Hi.  Can you give us a specific example?  I've never had a new installation of an app not immediately see my server on the network.

[JochyN 0]

Sure, @ebr

A customer comes in, connects to WiFi and turns on - let's say - BubblePNP on his mobile phone. He won't see the media server and starts complaining. Just a minute later the media server would have shown up, but it's already too late.

That's why I wanted to make multicasts more frequent. I can not influence the setup of these client devices.

[Neminem 1518]

20 minutes ago, JochyN said:

A customer comes in

You do know this is a personal home media server ?

[JochyN 0]

1 minute ago, JayceDK said:

You do know this is a personal home media server ?

Sure, I do. I'm just testing, and found out, there is a problem ...

[Luke 42078]

OK so we're just talking Dlna. But usually those apps will also send out search requests, and Emby Server Dlna will immediately respond to those.