Thanks @yhd . It’s good to know that it works for you. The control item is linked to the correct channel. The volume control seems to be reliable, but that’s about it for me. I’ll also try my Denon AVR or Oppo to see if there’s a difference.
I don’t got my Marantz AVR working with this binding because it uses sub devices for the renderer and mediaserver. We discussed that that a few postings earlier in this thread but do not have a solution.
Actually, it works much better increasing the UPnP Response Timeout to 10s (10000ms) in the player thing config. It seems that metadata (particularly the art) gets lost eventually with the ongoing pollings of the player. Curiously, I never get the artist at all.
I get some weirdness with Sonos metadata too, so maybe my network or OH is in someway unhappy.
For your Marantz, did you look at trying the HEOS binding?
Minimserver, which seems to be pretty much the gold standard of DLNA servers, particularly if you have extensive tagging). Looking at the logs, there seems to be full metadata available at some point (see above) but it comes and goes. Given that the response timeout made a difference, I’m really beginning to think that either there is a black hole somewhere in my network or maybe a conflict between different controllers I have installed on different devices (which I know is a problem with UPnP/AV). I’ll try to figure this out systematically using the logs.
My media server (Synology docker container + local media files), Openhab (same) and player (Pi Ropieee) are all wired with Unifi 1Gb network. The Synology isn’t stressed. So there shouldn’t be a problem here.
I haven’t done the work yet to try searches, favourites, playlists, but Minimserver certainly supports searches with multiple parameters (even though most control points don’t).
In the MainUI, I use a widget adapted from one that someone made for Sonos.
