Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that permits networked devices to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the network and establish functional network services for data sharing, communications, and entertainment.
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UPnP, device announcement only
I know that there are nice UPnP stacks like "Developer Tools for UPnP Technologies" (http://opentools.homeip.net/dev-tools-for-upnp). This would work but I do not need all this functionality.
All I need is that I can see my device (in e.g. the…

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How to use the Platinum uPnP SDK?
I would like to use the Platinum SDK in order to develop a cross platform uPnP AV Host using Qt. I can't find any documentations or wiki for this library.
Does anyone already used the Platinum SDK and have some documentations for usage? Any example…

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How to create a UPnP service in C# that can be discovered
I have found many suggestions about how to use UPnP to discover existing devices and even send control commands to them.
Is there a UPnP Library for .NET (C# or VB.NET)?
In my case, I have to create a service that can be discovered as a UPnP device…

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Browse sort criteria
I'm trying to write a upnp/dlna client for videos and I would like to allow the option to sort by title and date.
With Windows7/wmp as the server, I can use "dc:title" or "dc:date" for sorting and it seems to work but testers have told me it…

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Can Upnp or DLNA stream audio from server to multiple renderers at the same time?
I would like to know if it is possible for upnp/dlna protocol to stream audio from a single media server to multiple media renderers at the same time. Does the protocol allow this? Thank you.

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UPnP Port Mapping/Forwarding to different IP (iOS/Objective-C)
Disclaimer: I've carefully read every similar topic here and did a google search. None of those answered my questions, so I would like some further explanation.
Is there a framework for iOS/Objective-C which can change the local IP address of an…

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Getting around NAT for P2P app if I have all ip info?
I am making a P2P android app. My current issue is that I am unable to get my devices to recognize each other unless they are on the same network and I use private IP addresses -- I have all public IPs/ports/private IP addresses stored in a…

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Routing video stream traffic through Android phone
I want an Android phone to control a video stream playback on a Samsung Smart TV. I can send a UPnP command to the TV with a URL to the video stream. Unfortunately the Samsung TV don't accept URLs that point outside the local network. To make a…

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Upnp Root Device Vs Embedded Device
I'm currently adding UPnP support into an application. It will act as a Media Server, Control Point and Media Renderer. My question is should the Media Server and Media Renderer be implemented as 2 separate devices or one root device with 1…

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How does UPnP works?
I am doing an app which renders a web page in an upnp enabled television set. I have implemented the UPnP with Cling UPnP
Now I am not sure how to proceed further. How is the connection between the Television and the device attained? Is it a socket…

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Connection between Samsung Smart TV and iOS app
I got a Samsung Smart TV UE40D8000 (Apparently from 2011 series ?) and an iOS device.
I'd like to make them both exchange information (most likely small chunks of text), via a dedicated app on both sides;
Now, it turns out the best way would be to…

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How to register a UPnP service
I have a Visual Studio 2008 C++ project for Windows Mobile 6 ARMV4I where I would like to register a UPnP service.
I am using the Microsoft sample from the Windows CE 6 SDK as the implementation of the UPnP service.…

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Identify a TV in upnp / dlna
Using the Java library Cling, I can discover my TV on the LAN using upnp. The TV advertises the following upnp services
RenderingControl
AVTransport
ConnectionManager
It also says, it is of type "MediaRenderer" and the model description is…

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How do sockets work, and what should I know about connecting through a router?
I'm working on a trivia game that is similar to buzztime that you might play at Buffalo Wild Wings. To play the game, your smartphone connects to a Java applet that is running a TV version of the game, and then you can press "a" "b" "c" or "d" to…

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How do you avoid data loss when peer resets TCP connection in winsock 2?
I am writing a UPnP client and one of my test routers always "slams" the connection shut, instead of doing a graceful shutdown-send after it has sent a response. This results in my recv calls not getting the data.
I know the data is there because I…

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