Title says it. Love to find a tutorial for writing profiles for macs.
How about the second pinned thread in this subforum? 
Thanx Otto
Is it the same profiles for Macs as Windows.
I found a line in my iSedora log and I’m wondering if I need something like that for Plex
09:12:51.907 [INF] Device created “Media Player” from: http://192.168.1.9:52323/dmr.xml
09:13:23.957 [INF] Device updated “Media Player”
If so, where would I place it?
@nickm11 said:
Is it the same profiles for Macs as Windows.
Yes, there is no difference across all platforms where Plex Server runs on.
I found a line in my iSedora log and I’m wondering if I need something like that for Plex
09:12:51.907 [INF] Device created “Media Player” from: http://192.168.1.9:52323/dmr.xml
09:13:23.957 [INF] Device updated “Media Player”
This I cannot tell you.
Only this: without a tailored device profile, the Plex DLNA server can only transfer the file unchanged to the device (Direct Play, in Plex-speak).
If the device doesn’t like something about the file, it doesn’t play it or even crashes.
A device profile is able to change that by telling Plex exactly, what the client device supports and what not. Plex is then able to transcode the file to make it suitable for the client device.
(provided, your server is fast enough to do that in real-time)
If so, where would I place it?
The custom device profile goes into the Plex data folder, into a subfolder named Profiles.
If you never added a custom device profile before, the Profiles subfolder doesn’t exist on your server system yet. You have to create it and put the device profile in there.
I can’t help you with your particular device. I don’t know it, and I have never written a custom device profile before. All I did was to customize one that was already there.
I’d love to talk with someone who wrote a profile for Mac and another device.
As usual, thanx Otto
@nickm11 said:
I’d love to talk with someone who wrote a profile for Mac and another device.
I’ve written a couple profiles and helped others write a number of others. I have no problem trying to answer any of your questions.
I don’t have a Mac but the profile’s all work on any server OS so the only difference will be where they are installed at.
From what I’ve been reading, the profile I have for my SMP-N100 is a good profile. My concern is that my SMP-N100 isn’t picking it up from my Mac and that Mac’s are different in the way to work with Profiles.
I tried putting it in both ~/Library/logs/Profiles and ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Profiles without success.
I’ve attached the .xml file I found online. If you have time please take a look at it?
Thanx, Nick
The profile looks normal, the issue I remember with that specific situation is that there is a SMP profile included with the server (I believe it was for the 200’s) that matches before the custom profile.
The easiest fix was to post the information from your custom profile into the ‘Sony Streaming Player’ profile included with the server. The downside is during every server update this will get overwritten and returned to default. To avoid that you can overide the default profile. This just means you place the file in Application Support directory and rename the file to Sony Streaming Player and inside the file change the client name to match. IE Client name="SONY SMP-N100" to Client name="Sony Streaming Player"
After that when your DLNA starts up you should see a log entry saying that the profile is now being overridden. And your devices won’t be trying to match to both profiles.
OK, I got the Sony to see the server, kind of. I have a Hidden and Shown switch. I can’t get it to switch to Shown to access the server and this is what I need it to do.
I’ve tried the Plex/Pin, but not working.
I have the DLNA button selected in Plex, but I don’t know what else to do.
Any suggestions? Sony manual and customer service is the worst I’ve ever seen. They are virtually useless
PS: This script work’s well on my Samsung Smart TV 
@nickm11 said:
I’ve tried the Plex/Pin, but not working.
Not sure what Plex/Pin you’re referring to here. Normally, if you’re using a Pin it is because Plex Home was enabled on the server which by default disables DLNA. After that if you reenable the DLNA server there shouldn’t be anything else.
I have the DLNA button selected in Plex, but I don’t know what else to do.
That should be it. With the DLNA server enabled and running, there isn’t anything else really to do the server gets broadcast to every device that is DLNA enabled.
I don’t know why, but for some reason it started working. My only guess is that I had to many DLNA servers on the list, so when I made another one hidden, it accepted Plex as Shown.
Thanx for all your help, it seems to have worked out.
PS: I gotta tell you I really love this box. I bought it at a thrift shop for $10 and because it has old fashion audio out, I use it to stream FLAC music though my good preamp and music system. It does so much if you don’t mind figuring it out, because Sony has the worst support of any company I’ve seen
Hi both, I am also a Mac user and I am completely new to DLNA.
I have a Medion internet radio (the exact same model as the one this Emby user wrote this profile for)
The author says it works, except for the fact his music is still being transcoded to a lower bitrate than the original. I don’t care about that, I just want to be able to listen to my music library via the Medion device. 320kbps is fine.
My questions are: how do I save the profile / what file type do I save it as, and where do I eventually add the file to?
