DLNA and firmware 376.47

[Pikok]

Hey all,

First of all I'd like to apologise if this has been asked before. I went through some pages but was unable to find anything related to my issue.

I've been on an older version for a good while, the one from around june 2014. I'd have to check in detail which one. Everything was working fine, but I decided to upgrade anyway because the newer versions included some patches and new features and whatnot. Unfortunately ever since I've been struggling with DLNA. I'll download a file, or upload it from my pc, onto my HDD and it won't show up on any of my DLNA devices, but I will see it when checking FTP or AICloud.
I have to manually go into my router settings and trigger it to scan by making a change in my DLNA settings. Before this was never an issue.
I've tried the following:
- Format HDD from EXT2 to NTFS = same issue
- Reset to Factory Default = same issue
- Format HDD back to EXT2 = same issue

I'm considering downgrading, but I figured others should be experiencing something similar, so I'm wondering whether I'm doing something wrong or if there's a way to force the DLNA server to sync sooner. Should no one have an idea, I figure I'll have no choice than to downgrade, but I kind of want to avoid doing so without looking into this further.

 

[RMerlin]

Due to a change Asus did in recent GPL code, minidlna is no longer able to pick up new files unless you restart it to force a database rebuild.

This is something that I cannot fix as it's related to closed source code, so we'll have to hope that Asus eventually fixes it on their end.

 

[Pikok]

Thanks for the reply! Downgrading will resolve the issue then? If so, what version still works?

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks for the reply! Downgrading will resolve the issue then? If so, what version still works?

376.45 or 46, I don't remember which build included the Asus change.

 

[SebZab]

Already in 374.43_2 miniDLNA rescan did't work

 

[lamp159]

Due to a change Asus did in recent GPL code, minidlna is no longer able to pick up new files unless you restart it to force a database rebuild.

Sorry if it is an obvious question, but how to do that? Rebooting the router will do it?

In addition, is minidlna reliable in a NTFS disk?
Should it be better moved to a EXTsomething partition? If so, how to do that?
I was searching for these questions/answers in the forum but couldn't find them.

Thanks

 

[lamp159]

Sorry if it is an obvious question, but how to do that? Rebooting the router will do it?

I guess turning OFF and then ON "Enable DLNA Media Server" should also work?

 

[DrTeeth]

I have to do this often as I find my listing often contains a couple of listings for the same file.

 

[Zirescu]

I guess turning OFF and then ON "Enable DLNA Media Server" should also work?

I've found that only seems to work part of the time, only rebooting the router works 100% of the time. I regularly use DLNA and find it very frustrating to have to do this every time a new file is added to gain access to it.

 

[superkrups20056]

It doesn't work for me anymore either...Downgrading to see which version works better

 

[RMerlin]

Can any of you test 376.48 Beta 2? Minidlna is now staticly linked with its own copy of sqlite, which should resolve the issue.

 

[Zirescu]

376.48 Beta 2 - resolves minidlna refresh issues

Confirmed that the beta 2 build resolves the issue with minidlna not updating when new items are added. Thanks!!