[coherence-dev] Having issues getting coherence working...

[Cecil Coupe]

[Seems I didn't send this to the list. Grump. Phil's going to get it
twice. My bad.]

Do the easy part first. Make a ~/.coherence. Just to remove that
annoyance.  Can your Pioneer see the coherence server at all? Choice of
backends won't matter if the receiver won't matter if the client can't
see the server. 

I managed to get Coherence talking to a Yamaha RX-N600 which is a pretty
crippled device. It wasn't pretty. You have two servers that work
(MediaTomb and WMP) so you've got a good baseline. I installed Wireshark
on my Ubuntu Linux box and decoded the packets that Coherence and the
Yamaha sends trying to find each other. Not something for the casual
user to do. In my case, the XML headers sent back from Coherence had to
in a particular order, with nothing extra added. Dumb device! Bad
Device! But it's my device. 

Frank has my patches which may or may not get into the next release of
Coherence and may not help you.  I'll send them to you if your willing
to poke around in Python source code.You'll have to discover the HTTP
UPnP-Client the Pioneer sends in HTTP headers. Coherence logging at the
info level is sufficient.

FWIW here's the  my ~/.coherence file (edited slightly) that I use:
logmode = info # none, critical, error, warning, info, debug
logfile = coherence.log
interface = eth0
serverport = 30020 
controlpoint = no
web-ui = no                     
use_dbus = no

[plugins]
    [[MediaStore]]
        medialocation = /home/mmedia/Music  
        coverlocation = /home/ccoupe/.gnome2/rhythmbox/covers # optional
        mediadb = /home/ccoupe/yamaha.cdb
        name = Coherence MediaStore
 
Disabling the controlpoint, web-ui and dbus really cuts down on the log
traffic. At this point, the backend choice doesn't matter. You know
Coherence is talking to it. It'll whine in the log if it can't connect
to the back end. If it doesn't complain, you're back is good enough for
now. 

--Cecil


On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:29 +0800, Phil Wild wrote:
> My dlna client is a Pioneer VSX-LX70 AV receiver. It can see my
> windows mediaplayer share on my PC. It also can see mediatomb running
> on the same linux host that I am trying to get coherence running on. I
> have shut down mediatomb for all testing purposes so only coherence
> should be visible.
>