dlnap

Enjoy music on your favorite sound system or share a picture or YouTube video with your folks and friends on smart TV. Simple network player for DLNA/UPnP devices allows you discover devices and playback media on them.

Requires

• Python (whatever you like: python 2.7+ or python3)
• youtube-dl to playback YouTube links

TODO

• [ ] Fix '&' bug
• [ ] Set next media
• [x] Volume control
• [ ] Position control
• [ ] Add support to play media from local machine, e.g --play /home/username/media/music.mp3 for py3
• [ ] Try it on Windows
• [ ] Add AVTransport:2 and further support
• [ ] Play on multiple devices
• [x] Integrate local download proxy
• [x] Stop/Pause playback
• [x] Investigate if it possible to play images/video's on DLNA/UPnP powered TV (possible via download proxy)

Supported devices/software

• [x] Yamaha RX577
• [x] Samsung Smart TV (UE40ES5507) via proxy
• [x] Marantz MR611
• [x] Kodi
• [ ] Volumio2 (?)
• please email me if it works or doesn't work with your device

Usage

Overview

dlnap.py [] [] []

Selectors:

--ip 

--device 

--list

--play 

--pause

--stop

--all

--proxy

--proxy-port

--timeout 

Discover UPnP devices

List devices which are able to playback media only ```

dlnap.py Discovered devices: [a] Receiver rx577 @ 192.168.1.40 [a] Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35 ```

List all available UPnP devices ```

dlnap.py --all Discovered devices: [x] ZyXEL Keenetic Giga @ 192.168.1.1 [a] Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35 [x] Data @ 192.168.1.50 [a] Receiver rx577 @ 192.168.1.40 ```
where
[a] means that devices allows media playback
[x] means that device doesn't allow media playback

Playback media

Playback music ```

dlnap.py --ip 192.168.1.40 --play http://somewhere.com/music.mp3 Receiver rx577 @ 192.168.1.40

**Playback video**

dlnap.py --device tv --play http://somewhere.com/video.mp4 Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35

**Show image**

dlnap.py --device tv --play http://somewhere.com/image.jpg Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35

**Local files**

dlnap.py --device tv --play ~/media/video.mp4 --proxy Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35 ```

YouTube links ```

dlnap.py --device tv --play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0eWOaLxlso Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35 ``` Note: requires youtube-dl installed

Proxy

Some devices doesn not able to play

https

dlnap.py

Example:
The following command will set up a local http server at

http://:8000

http://somewhere.com/video.mp4

dlnap.py --device tv --play http://somewhere.com/video.mp4 --proxy ```

So behind the scene the command looks like:
```

dlnap.py --device tv --play 'http://:8000/http://somewhere.com/video.mp4'

**Note:** proxy is syncronous which means that

dlnap.py``` will not exit while device downloading file to playback.

We need to go deeper :octocat:

YouTube/Vimeo/etc videos
In general device can playback direct links to a video file or a stream url only.
There are tools to convert (YouTube) url to stream url, e.g youtube-dl tool.
Assuming you have download proxy up and running at

http://:8000

dlnap.py --device tv --play http://:8000/

youtube-dl -g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0eWOaLxlso

Samsung TV @ 192.168.1.35 ```