The first UMS in this list is my tablet accessing the server over the LAN, the second is it accessing it over the internet. You may have also noticed that my UMS that I set up is listed twice. This is how BubbleUPnP acts as a UPnP/DLNA control point allowing you to wirelessly choose where your media is played. Also if you have a TV with DLNA capabilities and have set it up on your home network it will also show on this list. A renderer is where the media will be played, so if I select “Local Renderer” it will be played on my tablet, if I select “Xbox 360” it will be played on my Xbox. Firstly that my Xbox is listed in the renderers. You may have noticed a couple of things from the screen shot above. Here you will see all of the UPnP/DLNA servers on your network. To connect BubbleUPnP to your UMS that you just set up go to the “Devices” tab. If you want to connect to your media over the Internet via it you will have to pay for the fill version which is around £3 at the time I am writing this blog. The free version of this app will allow you to connect to a media server over your LAN only. BubbleUPnP is a fully featured UPnP/DLNA Control Point and UPnP Media Renderer as well as an actual UPnP Media Server as well. There are quite a few apps that will do this however the one I would recommend is BubbleUPnP. Well, to connect into the UMS that you just set up with an Android device you will have to download an app from the Google Play Store. However, this doesn’t help with my Android tablet I hear your cry. You will then be able to play music and video through your Xbox so long it supports the format of media you are trying to play. You will then prompted to select a media source and the UMS should now be showing. If you have an Xbox you will be able to see this server under “TV & Movies” -> “My Video Apps” -> “System Video Player”. You now have a media server that is ready to serve all of your selected media over your home network (Don’t forget to add in firewall exceptions so Java can communicate through it). Once you have made your changes to the sever settings, click “Save” at the top of the form and then restart the server. Here you can choose the folders you want to share and I also checked the “Hide #–Transcode–# Folder” option as you don’t want these cluttering up your view of the files. There are many things you can configure but the main thing we want to look at are under the “Navigation/Share Settings” tab. After installing UMS you will be presented with the form below: It is a DLNA compliant UPnP server that is written in Java so it will work on Windows, Linux and OSX. After doing a bit of searching I found the Universal Media Server. Most modern TVs, games consoles, mobile phones and many more devices are DLNA certified so it would be ideal if our server software can interface with devices as well. Also, many modern devices also support DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). So our server will have to support these. There are a set of networking protocols that allow this which come under the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) system. Well ideally you want some software that can interface with all of your devices (not just Android). The first step is to set up a media server. To get this working there are a number of steps that you will have to follow which I will outline below. I naively thought something like this would have been supported as standard in the latest version of Android (v4.2.2 at the time of writing) but it isn’t. One of the first things I wanted to do with it was to be able to stream my music and films to it over my home network. A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Android tablet (The Google Nexus 7 which is excellent btw).
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