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DLNA Server #15362

Closed Ang3er closed 3 years ago

Ang3er commented 5 years ago

I would like to reqeust the feature of a properly build DLNA server inside Nextcloud, to use the gallery app as well as a network wide DLNA/UPNP server. All current solution I tested (minidlna, universal media server, plex, ps3 ...) dont realy address my need of a small handy ONLY dlna server, as I do not want to replace the gallaray of nextcloud. Unfortanatly my tv is to dumb to use this gallary.

Iam also refereing to https://help.nextcloud.com/t/dlna-server-within-nextcloud/15012 and https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1385 which are describing the same issue.

Thanks in advance

GAS85 commented 4 years ago

You can easily do this by standard tools.

  1. Create directory like /home/user/myNextcloud
  2. Added this directory as Video/Audio/Pictures source to your DLNA Server.
  3. Mount with davfs2 your Nextcloud user folder (or other needed with Audio, Video, Picrutre) via WebDAV to /home/user/myNextcloud OR Add this folder as external storage.
  4. Enjoy!
daveybops commented 3 years ago

There seems to be a few ways to get this to work on Nextcloud, a quick web-search reveals multiple suggestions, which are going to work for some people, and won't for others due to varying configurations. Example, I use the Nextcloud Snap installation on a Pi v4 with one USB HDD storing my nextcloud data. Since Snap installations of Nextcloud runs as root, I made the miniDLNA user part of the root group!

This is not secure in my mind, but was a quick and dirty way of getting it to work. And the miniDLNA service crashes occasionally, so I have a cronjob set to restart the service daily. I think a better way for this to work, if at all possible, is for the function to be included in Nextcloud.

Since I'm not a programmer, I am relying on the goodwill of developers, who know more than me to implement this in the future. I, among others, would really, really appreciate it!

szaimen commented 3 years ago

Hi 👋

We are currently cleaning up our issue tracker. The feature described in this issues sounds like a good idea for a dedicated app. Feel free to post it in our "App ideas" section in the forum, to find a developer that wants to work on it: https://help.nextcloud.com/c/apps/app-ideas/21

We are closing this issue here now, so the "issue tracker" of the server repository can be used better to track issues instead.

Cheers

thanek commented 1 year ago

If anyone's interested, I created a simple DLNA server which is integrated with the Nextcloud app. You can grab it from here https://github.com/thanek/nextcloud-dlna