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I've got minidlna running, and it seems to be working perfectly, with one catch. The television can't see it when searching for servers.

After starting the television and unsuccessfully searching, I can restart the minidlna service, and search again with the TV - that second time, the TV instantly finds the server. From that point on, everything works perfectly.

Just speculating, I believe that the TV sends a signal requesting servers when it's searching - presumably that isn't working properly?

... and when starting the service, minidlna sends out a signal broadcasting it's location? So presumably if the TV is already on and listening, it sees that signal triggered by minidlna, which is why it knows about the server when I search a second time?

The TV is on the wireless network, and the server is on the LAN.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

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The notify_interval option in /etc/minidlna.conf should be changed to a lower value as the default is 900 seconds, so that every 15 minutes minidlna sends a multicast advertisement.

That is too long time to wait for the TV to start seeing your files, so I set a 30 seconds interval instead:

sudo nano /etc/minidlna.conf
notify_interval=30
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