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Setting Up a DLNA Server on a Raspberry Pi
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- Kanelis Elias
Setup DLNA server on Raspberry Pi
Installation
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install minidlna
Mount hard drive
Connect an external hard drive.
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add this line. Change only the /dev of your hard drive. It is assumed that the hdd is fat32 formatted.
/dev/sda1 /media/HDD vfat defaults 0 2
Configuration
Open the file /etc/minidlna.conf
sudo nano /etc/minidlna.conf
and change this
#friendly_name=
# * "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/var/lib/minidlna/music)
# * "P" for pictures (eg. media_dir=P,/var/lib/minidlna/pictures)
# * "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos)
into this:
friendly_name="MINIDLNA"
media_dir=A,/media/HDD/Music
media_dir=P,/media/HDD/Pictures
media_dir=V,/media/HDD/Movies
Restart server
sudo service minidlna restart
sudo service minidlna force-reload