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Bravia: Device Name not recognized after FW upgrade

PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:17 pm
by soundcheck
Hi folks.

I did a firmware upgrade of my KDL- HX925 recently.

Since then Serviio won't seem to recognize, respecively identify the TV type and profile anymore ??

Any hint to get this resolved is appreciated.

Cheers

Re: Bravia: Device Name not recognized after FW upgrade

PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:27 pm
by soundcheck
One more.

The status field in Serviio console stays on "unknown" - yellow even though the TV is turned on ( just TV -- no media streaming).

Re: Bravia: Device Name not recognized after FW upgrade

PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:33 pm
by Cerberus
can you turn on detailed logging,(delete any current logs) remove all renderers from the console and restart serviio. then post your log file here. It would seem to me like the identification string sent by the device has changed in latest firmware.

Re: Bravia: Device Name not recognized after FW upgrade

PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:49 pm
by Illico
Do you change renderer name on your Sony bravia TV? please post detailed logging.

Re: Bravia: Device Name not recognized after FW upgrade

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:53 am
by soundcheck
Illico wrote:Do you change renderer name on your Sony bravia TV? please post detailed logging.


In fact I probably turned the renderer setup menu temporarily off.

I now figured that the hostname is tight to this menu setting.

If the hostname gets not assigned, Serviio has a problem with automatic profiling. That you have to do manually towards this "unknown" client . That would be OK - I guess.

I ran into another issue when having this manual configuration working:

In case you don't have a reserved IP for your TV on the router, that above manual client/profile setting is no longer pointing to the right device
as soon as the TV gets a new IP address.
With the generic profile assigned to the new/old detected unknown client obviously steaming to my Bravia won't work anymore.
Unfortunately you'll notice it first time as soon as you try to access the data from the TV. "No video available" :o . Hmmh. Pleeaase - not again...

I'm wondering if it would be possible to identify a TV/client by MAC address or any other unique ID. That would solve the potential problems associated to uncontrolled change of IP addresses and associated mix-up or assignment of generic profiles.

As a workaround I could reserve an IP address on the router (that's what I've done now) to avoid this problem.

But not everybody will do that... ...and might get frustrated about it (and Serviio).

Man. Lots of traps out there. ;)

Cheers

Re: Bravia: Device Name not recognized after FW upgrade

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:05 am
by zip
soundcheck wrote:I'm wondering if it would be possible to identify a TV/client by MAC address.

Not possible.