No Renderers After Two days of Troubleshooting
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:34 pm
Good Day All
UMS installed on an older windows 10 laptop with 1 TB hard drive attached
Trying to connect to 1 android tv box (Bee Link GT King), chromecast with google TV, 2 android phones, and an LG Smart TV
New to the forum so please be gentle
Here is what led me to UMS...I recently purchased the new chromecast with google tv and realized that it has a limitation when connecting an external drive through a USB hub. It can only recognize the FAT32 system. No good for me because I have lots of media over 4GB.
Ok, so I decide to do some googling and came across UMS or media sharing from Windows. I think perfect because I also have an android tv box and a couple of mobile devices I would like to share to. How hard can it be?
I tried windows media share with no luck. Media showed up but was unable to play.
I tried Plex but it was playing all files at very low quality even though I think my IP provider and network set-up is capable of playing my files full quality.
I like the simplicity of UMS...too much fluff on Plex.
The issue I am having is that I can not see any renderers in UMS. I can see the devices in my Router page.
Troubleshooting steps so far:
- all firewalls and anti virus disabled - nil fix
- Nord VPN off - nil fix
- shut off plex prior to starting UMS - nil fix
- tried adding devices to managed list in router even though all was allowed - nil fix
- plus a bunch of other stuff that I can't recall
What am I missing?
Log attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
UMS installed on an older windows 10 laptop with 1 TB hard drive attached
Trying to connect to 1 android tv box (Bee Link GT King), chromecast with google TV, 2 android phones, and an LG Smart TV
New to the forum so please be gentle
Here is what led me to UMS...I recently purchased the new chromecast with google tv and realized that it has a limitation when connecting an external drive through a USB hub. It can only recognize the FAT32 system. No good for me because I have lots of media over 4GB.
Ok, so I decide to do some googling and came across UMS or media sharing from Windows. I think perfect because I also have an android tv box and a couple of mobile devices I would like to share to. How hard can it be?
I tried windows media share with no luck. Media showed up but was unable to play.
I tried Plex but it was playing all files at very low quality even though I think my IP provider and network set-up is capable of playing my files full quality.
I like the simplicity of UMS...too much fluff on Plex.
The issue I am having is that I can not see any renderers in UMS. I can see the devices in my Router page.
Troubleshooting steps so far:
- all firewalls and anti virus disabled - nil fix
- Nord VPN off - nil fix
- shut off plex prior to starting UMS - nil fix
- tried adding devices to managed list in router even though all was allowed - nil fix
- plus a bunch of other stuff that I can't recall
What am I missing?
Log attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated