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Small update:

On Android TV, Kodi does work. Though, it seems less "smooth" than expected?

I mean, it has very easily found UMS server on my local WiFi net, but a curious thing: when I open the shared folder, every file is shown more than one time, with slightly different names, as if every one of ...

VLC has a problematic UPnP implementation, I'm not sure if it's possible to get that to work properly. If Kodi is available, I would try that instead. I also see that it is possible to install MX Player on Android TV, but Google seems to be making it as difficult as possible. They probably want to ...

Here I am!

I've tried BubbleUpnp on my Honor 5X, old enough Android phone, and it worked pretty smoothly. I could use BubbleUpnp to see Universal Media Server and open the files into the directory I've chosen to share without any problems.

On my TV though, I've installed VLC for Android ('cause MX ...

While it's possible to use UMS' web-interface, that's not the "main" way of accessing UMS. UMS is a UPnP AV/DLNA server, so you need a UPnP AV or DLNA client. "Smart" TVs usually have this built in, called "Media Player" or whatnot. I don't know how this is done on Android TV, you might need to ...

Hi guys!

Thanks for the great work on UMS, I've never used a media server before but it already seems a great piece of software to me!

So, a thing, not a real "support" request.
For browsing and playing some media content on my Android Tv (with UMS installed on my laptop), I'm supposed to log-in ...