Mopidy has a dlna plugin: https://mopidy.com/ext/dleyna/
I use this container for mopidy: https://hub.docker.com/r/ivdata/mopidy
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That might work. I'll have to check it out. Thanks
I used minidnla successfully a number of years back. It's now called Readymedia, and there are a few docker images.
I was under the impression that minidlna is exclusively a DLNA server and not a renderer. Is that wrong?
Yes, you are correct. Mea culpa for the brain fart.
Do any of you know another solution to stream audio from my phone to my server
I use snapcast throughout my house and devices, but there's no snap_server_ for Android.
I've been meaning to try roc, for which there is an Android client that will both play and serve.
Sonobus also claims to be many:many; I haven't tried it either and it doesn't look particularly active.
I don't use UPnP or DLNA because of the security issues, so I can't offer a suggestion about that. I thought DLNA was a pull oriented protocol - like, to send music from your phone you'd have to select and play on your computer with a DLNA client. Can you push media with DLNA?
I'm not very well informed on the specifics of the DLNA standard or how it is differentiated from UPnP so take what I say here with a grain of salt. My understanding is that there are 3 device types in DLNA
- A server which provides media
- A client which can pull media from the server
- A renderer which can play back media from the client
I'm not sure if the server is necessary stricly speaking or if my device is using the underlying UPnP stuff but I can use Macast, which is a DLNA renderer, on my desktop computer and then select it as a playback device in Symfonium on my android phone where it shows up as a UPnP device.
like, to send music from your phone you'd have to select and play on your computer with a DLNA client. Can you push media with DLNA?
This isn't how it works.
VLC can play from DLNA, so perhaps there's a way you can use that?
I'm using macast as a media renderer, for video and audio. don't know if there's a docker container for it.
I've used macast in the past on my desktop where it worked perfectly. Unfortunately I could not find a fitting docker image for it. There is this one but it has literally no information and only 70 image pulls. Then there is a dockerfile in the Macast github repo but considering I don't see a docker image mentioned anywhere in the documentation so I guess that one is only for building the application. I believe Macast is a GUI application anyway so I'm not sure how good it would work on a headless server.
it's using mpv under the hood, so I guess it should be able to play audio headless. I'm using allcast to cast to it and control it.