RT-AC68U DLNA server fubar?

[chris2kari]

Just purchased this a couple of days ago. Enabled the DLNA server which appeared to work beautifully for Wireless clients (iPhones, iPads) on my LAN then 24 hours later the server suddenly stops being visible to clients. No more DLNA server (frowny face).

I noticed enabling the DLNA server RAM usage shoots up from a peaceful 50Mb to over 95%. I assume this is some kind of indexing going on but concerned that its gonna impact the normal operation of the router.

Tested with latest available stock & Merlin FW.

Is this normal (LOL!), i.e should I stop looking for a fix?
Have I defective RT-AC68U?

C2k

 

[chris2kari]

It seems despite its linux roots this device has Windoze disease - Enable DLNA server, reboot. Disabel DLNA server, reboot.. at least it works then.

Acessing it with two (2) Western digital MyTV Live clients seemed to overload the ofiicial ASUS FW but work ok with the Merlin FW. Clould be my imagination.. no further prob's since Flashing with MerlinWRT.

 

[john9527]

Just purchased this a couple of days ago. Enabled the DLNA server which appeared to work beautifully for Wireless clients (iPhones, iPads) on my LAN then 24 hours later the server suddenly stops being visible to clients. No more DLNA server (frowny face).

Try it with IGMP Snooping disabled. On Wireless/Professional for wireless or LAN/IPTV for wired clients.

 

[chris2kari]

Try it with IGMP Snooping disabled. On Wireless/Professional for wireless or LAN/IPTV for wired clients.

Nope that didnt help but I appreciate the effort. IGMP Proxy & Snooping both "Disabled".

I had an external a Seagate 2Tb Hard disk formatted to NTFS for the DLNA mini server.

After the DLNA went 'poof' I looked in the logs & saw a lot of messages complaining about inodes.

I tried running the disk check in FW on the attached NTFS disk but saw it complaining on repeated runs.

Next I tried attaching a different brand exernal 2Gb Tochiba formatted for NTFS, same problem.

Next I tried formatting the both disks to EXT3 (hey its a Linux server running in the FW right?)

Checking the disk in FW threw an error & it cheerfully nuked the journals back to EXT2.
Confirmed on both disks. Shudder!

I conclude that the mini DLNA server supplied by ASUS is useless & dangerous.

So now I search around for the info on how to substitute a debian mini DNLA onto this device to see if it works any better.

Will report back

 

[chris2kari]

Followup:

The embedded miniDLNA server is crap.
Switched it off permanently.

Formatted a 2Tb USB external HDD with EXT4 on a Linux Laptop.
Made sure to set its permissions appropriately.
Copied over about 1Tb of media locally then attached it to the router.
Installed Debian Wheezy in a change root + miniDLNA server.
It works.

https://www.asuswrt.eu/how-to-install-debian-wheezy-arm/

https://www.asuswrt.eu/minidlna-upnp-media-server-through-debian-wheezy-arm/