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ReadyNAS Duo - Minidlna - Very, very slow discovering service
Model: ReadyNAS Duo [X-RAID] Serial: 24M3117Y01978 Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.16 [1.00a043] Memory: 256 MB [2.5-3-3-7] I have had the NAS for a while and it has been running minidlna fine ...
Is it possible that your router isn't forwarding broadcast packets between the wireless and wired networks?
What router do you use (manufacturer+model).
The router hasn't changed for over a year. It's a BT Home Hub6. Split frequency since day one. Most of the major connections are static IP's - the NAS is, as is the Onkyo, Roberts radios and Panasonic TV. The phones, tablets (using Panasonic Music Stream app) are DHCP.
I've tried changing upnp settings on the router and that makes no odds. The only way I can get the Onkyo now to see the NAS is hardwiring it. So at least that proves that minidlna is working fine. I also know that wireless is working fine (or at least the Roberts' implementation of upnp over wireless) as the Roberts Radios pick up the NAS (after a few seconds). The Panasonic Music stream apps used on a couple of phones are hit and miss. Although I changed my phone to the 5GHz frequency and the Panasonic app picked up the NAS ok.
Still for the life of me can't think what's changed over the weekend apart from the known rescan - although when I couldn't connect to the NAS, I did reboot the router. But obviously that was after the event.
It is a puzzle. Is it practical to just run the Onyko wired for the long term?
Maybe - as I probably need a new NAS anyway!
But I've had a bit of a result. I went into the frequency select on the hub and switched off each frequency individually and restarted them. Then restarted the Onkyo in wired mode and switched that back to wireless and hey presto, Bob's your auntie. Still don't see how or why that should work given that the Roberts Radios were working. I'll check all the devices over the next day or so and post it back here if it's now 'fixed'.
Thanks for the help.
OK - the NAS has shut down and rebooted on the timer and all the devices can still it. Grand. So the issue 'appears' to have been in the wireless network - and shutting down each frequency and restarting them has 'somehow' cleared a log jam (again still not sure why restarting the router didn't have the same effect - but what the heck).
A couple of related questions though - what I realised yesterday, is that playlists (that I've been creating more of over the past few weeks) are in some way interpreted by minidlna and seem to scan oustide of the main scan. So when I rescanned the minidlna database, it said it had finished after a couple of hours - but now I think that it hadn't finished and was still processing the playlists. Is that the case? Is the Radiator message that says the scan is complete issued before the playlists are processed?
Ssecondly, I now have differences between my laptop minidlna and that on the NAS (they contain the same data - and the NAS is a copy of the laptop) in some of the playlists. The problem appears to be where a track name is the same. For instance, I have 'Heaven' as a track by Chris Rea and The Staple Singers. I created a new playlist (m3u) yesterday for the Staple Singers. The .m3u has all the tracks in the cd - fine. BUT when I play the NAS version of the playlist, instead of playing the Staple Singers' Heaven, it plays the Chris Rea version. So the scan of the playlists within minidlna is presumably creating a database ( I see there's an SQLITE database there) with an interpreted version of what the playlist is trying to play rather than physically using the entries in the playlist itself on playback. If that is the case, then the SQL that scans the playlists and creates the DB entry would appear to have a bug (that doesn't appear to exist in the minidlna version on my laptop - as that plays the right track).
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