PLEX as DLNA Control Point

[typhoe]

Hi,

how can this feature been asked since nearly 10 years and still totally ignored by developers?

You’ll find post about it everywhere on the forum…

Push Content to DLNA Renderers

I would like to inquire as to why there is currently no feature that alllows one to push content they are browsing on a tablet or phone directly to their television.   Why is it that Plex doesn't allow this when countless other streaming apps do?   I would like to go over some reasons why it's a must; provided by another user in another thread.     Cheers @all,   i know this thread is a few days old, but anyway this seems to be the best place out on the web to tell my story ;) i have …

Why DLNA renderer discovery interval but no DLNA renderer streaming?

I’m trying to set up digital music streaming, using an Oppo BDP203 as the renderer. I know that Plex historically hasn’t supported non-Plex renderers, but I read that Plex had recently added more DLNA support, and so I installed the Plex Media Server on my Synology NAS, where my ripped music files exist, and configured it to access those files, and enabled DLNA support. In so doing, I looked at the advanced options and saw the setting for DLNA media renderer discovery interval. I figured it use…

Plex and rendering music to a UPNP streamer

Hi all, my first post! I have recently bought a lifetime PLEX pass mainly for movies. Its a superb platform!. I notice it also finds my 1700+ (FLAC) music/albums on the QNAP NAS (where i have PLEX installed). I also have a UPNP music streamer but the PLEX app on my phone won’t/can’t find the streamer, what am i missing here???

We simply ask to be able to do the same as you implemented for google cast but for dlna renderer. At least for music if you think video would be too complex…

DLNA is implemented in a lot of older devices that will NEVER support google cast (or even receive firmware update) but are able to play perfectly a lot of music formats.

At least tell us if you’ll look into it!

Thank you!

[eyallior_eyallior_com]

I’m on Linux, using pulseaudio-dlna and this does the job.

[Formula409]

Still nothing? Would love this. I used Emby for a while just for DLNA music playback. Got tired of maintaining Plex for video content and Emby purely for music- if Plex had this I’d not need anything else.

[p5587]

+1. My main reason for trying Plex was to use it to stream my local music to audio equipment in the home.

[pietervo]

Another BIG +1 for Plex(amp) working as DLNA server!

It’s a shame to get such awesome browsing experience while it’s not possible to offload the stream to the Raspberry PI in my stereo setup. While I also have a Chromecast audio, it doesn’t play sample-accurate.

[pshanew]

@pietervo

It’s a shame to get such awesome browsing experience while it’s not possible to offload the stream to the Raspberry PI in my stereo setup.

Have tried (or considered trying) headless Plexamp on your Raspberry Pi? It seems that is is ideally suited to your use case.

[pietervo]

@pshanew

Have tried (or considered trying) headless Plexamp on your Raspberry Pi? It seems that is is ideally suited to your use case.

I’ve stumbled on this before but didn’t give it a go yet. It seems like this needs to be installed on top of another Raspberry PI Linux distro?

Also I don’t want to give up Airplay & Spotify Connect support from Moode OS - especially if Spotify (ever) launches its Hi-Fi tier.

[pshanew]

If you’re running the 64-bit version of moOde I’d expect you to be able to install Plexamp using the information in the link I provided. You can then control it via Plexamp on your phone/tablet/computer or its built-in web UI. I’d recommend giving it a shot.

[pietervo]

Seems like I wouldn’t be the first one to try this and it does create some complications at the moment:

https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=1113

[pjv]

You may want to also check this guide to installing Rpi plexamp side-by-side with moOde:

https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=4959

[pietervo]

@pjv

You may want to also check this guide to installing Rpi plexamp side-by-side with moOde:

Install Plexamp Side-by-Side with moOde

Tried that guide twice & also used this bash installer once:

odinb/bash-plexamp-installer/blob/main/README.md

Each time, I got through the installation process without issues and I can detect my Raspberry Pi’s Plexamp instance from my phone & start playback. However, if I use my browser to access the Plexamp web GUI running on the Raspberry, I can browse, search & access settings only. The playback screen is broken - just black with a loading icon and no audio.

[mbolo01]

In the Web GUI, did you select the Plexamp PI instance in the Cast menu (top right icon)?

[pjv]

@pietervo

Each time, I got through the installation process without issues and I can detect my Raspberry Pi’s Plexamp instance from my phone & start playback. However, if I use my browser to access the Plexamp web GUI running on the Raspberry, I can browse, search & access settings only. The playback screen is broken (also it won’t start playback when I select an album or track)

The guide is for installing headless plexamp next to moOde. It doesn’t tell you how to use headless plexamp. As mentioned in the guide, documentation is kind of scattered throughout this forum in many different topics. I’m sure eventually the Plex guys will bang out some actual documentation somewhere, but until then, it’s a skunkworks project and you kind of have to dig around in here. I suggest doing searches for “rpi” and “headless” with the tag “plexamp” to find most of what there is.

Also, what @mbolo01 said

[pietervo]

That did the trick! sorry for the extra clutter going to start fresh with the manual installation method as suggested by @pjv - in the end this seems to be a cleaner solution to use with Moode. The script on the other hand covered a lot of additional settings - timezone etc. (I think the creator assumes you start with a fresh, barebones Linux installation)

[pietervo]

Few days later and the Plexamp instance from my Raspberry PI’s Moode installation won’t show up in the Android app’s “cast” menu anymore.

I can still access the Raspberry’s Plexamp instance through the webinterface, but if I open up the “cast” menu over there, I can only see my phone and not the local player. So somehow, Plexamp is still running, but has become pretty much useless :') and yes, I did restart the Raspberry a few times

[mbolo01]

Did you set Plexamp to run as a service so it restarts by itself at each PI reboot?

[pietervo]

Yes definitely, I verified this after install. Also tried force - starting it with a command line… When I connect from the Raspberry Pi Plexamp instance to my phone, playback control works perfectly (with audio still coming from my phone)

Edit: working again following the same installation steps (and going from version 4.2.0 to 4.3.0)

[sbfx]

I wonder why is it so hard or complex for plex to implement this natively into their app?

Plexamp app on the phone should be allowed to cast on dlna enabled hifi.

[decay]

I need this feature too.

Plex, please make it work for us.

[vtr1000]

I understand that most UPnP/DLNA libraries suck but it’s so easy to reverse engineer with something like Wireshark on your local network. That’s exactly what I’ve done to stream Tidal to my raspberry pi running upmpdcli. See GitHub - R0CKH0PP3R/TiDaLNA: A Tidal UPnP/DLNA client for more info. If only Plex (and especially Plexamp) took this on it’d be awesome. FWIW, I like headless Plexamp but I’ve also found it a pain to update and less than user friendly to setup. I certainly don’t see one detracting from the other, rather simply catering for a wider audience.