RE: Rygel Stream Location Changes with each Re-start

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > Using gupnp-universal-cp to examine a rygel stream, I see this for the 
> > location on successive re-boots:
> >
> > http://192.168.1.190:39889/62444c39-0ae6-4df2-a2b8-099a45556ec7.xml
> > http://192.168.1.190:35986/ac3c5696-8486-4028-823d-6c03634bd277.xml
> That is an issue described in the faq. Your system time is either older than the date of the installed 
> template
>  files or the home directory of the user running rygel is not persisted during reboots.
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel/FAQ#Rygel_keeps_changing_its_UUID_on_every_start
Ah - I hadn't seen that - thanks

On a space constrained device like the RPi3, I don't really want to save /home/$USER as it just gets bigger 
and bigger until the SD card fills up (tinycorelinux runs entirely in RAM and nothing is saved unless 
specifically stated).

I looked at the other UPnP devices on the LAN and all of them separate their location and UDN so that the 
location does not change, for example:

Location http://192.168.1.160:9000/TMSDeviceDescription.xml
UDN uuid:55076f6e-6b79-4d65-6403-0014fd1895dc

..and rygel is the only one that does not - could this be considered as a feature request?

> > If I understand correctly, rygel cannot parse playlists, so I am 
> > obliged to create a playlist on the control point (in this case the 
> > Naim iOS App for my Naim streamer).
> Semi-correct. Given a UPnP controller that supports it, you can create playlists on the server
> (when running on MediaExport and I have not seen such a controller in the wild).
> There are patches for exposing on-disk playlists for Tracker and MediaExport, but both need some love.
Do you have a link to the tracker patch?

> > The problem is, each time I re-boot the machine running rygel, the 
> > control point playlist is rendered invalid due to the change in the 
> > rygel stream location address.
> >
> > Is there a way to force rygel to always use the same port?
> -p on connmandline or port=.... in config
Sorry - I should have seen that, fixed now.