Volumes goes really loud when connecting to playing DLNA renderer

[tomasz001 0]

I've been trialing Emby and I'm pretty happy with it so far! Kudos for making such a great product!

There is a really weird/annoying issue where it can make the volume jump quite loud.

My DLNA renderer in this case is an AV Receiver. I don't think this is relevant as it seems to be the application issue.

When I play to my DLNA renderer (e.g. via the web interface), and then I open up the Emby app on a different device, specifically MacOS and iOS apps, the volume on my DLNA renderer goes up quite considerably.

Example steps to reproduce:

1. Play music to the DLNA renderer via Emby's web interface.

2. Set volume on my DLNA renderer (AVR in this case) to 30 (on the scale of 0 to 100).

3. Open the MacOS app and choose to play to the DLNA renderer, so I can control the queue there.

4. Volume on the DLNA renderer jumps to around 66.5.

 

Some weirdness with iOS app are:

1. Nothing is playing.

2. Set AVR volume to 6.

3. Open the iOS app and select play to the DLNA Renderer on the iOS app.

4. It seems to set the DLNA renderer's volume to whatever system iOS volume I have set.

There seems to be some kind of behaviour where action of just selecting a device to play to on either MacOS or iOS app seems to set its own volume on the DLNA renderer. It can be very annoying as the volume can go quite high in the middle of the night.

 

Three requests are:

- Is there an option to disable iOS system volume being used by the app? E.g. stopping controlling with my iPhone buttons? Or making it less sensitive?

- Is there an option to disable the iOS app changing the volume on connecting to the DLNA renderer (selecting the "play to" device in the UI) or at least not overriding it from whatever is set on the iOS?

- Is there an option to disable the MacOS app changing the volume on connecting to the DLNA renderer (selecting the "play to" device in the UI)?

 

Also, is there an option to get rid of the Emby app integrating with like the player interface on the iOS (as in showing it on the lock screen and control centre)? I assume the volume issue I'm encountering comes from this integration. 

I can see that with the iOS app I can just lower the volume before I select "play to", but I obviously have to remember to do that...

I'm not sure where the initial volume comes on the MacOS app "play to" feature. Haven't figured this one out yet.

 

Many thanks!

[Luke 42077]

Hi, how does it compare when using the web app to remote control?