The control app thread

[bubbleguuum]

(07-11-2024 18:03)simoncn Wrote:  

(07-11-2024 11:18)bubbleguuum Wrote:  BubbleDS can control any OpenHome renderer. Besides obviously Linn DS, the most common ones are upmpdcli based (includes Volumio) and 'BubbleUPnP Server' based.

Thanks for clarifying this. I didn't remember correctly the difference between BubbleDS and BubbleUPNP with a Linn DS as renderer. The difference is (I think) that BubbleUPnP uses UpnpAv only to control a Linn DS and BubbleDS uses OpenHome only.

Correct, to control a Linn DS as OpenHome renderer you need BubbleDS. Although BubbleUPnP could absolutely also do it, this restriction is to avoid confusion for Linn DS users, as BubbleDS is the most practical and simpler app to best control a Linn DS, with the zillions of irrelevant settings of BubbleUPnP not exposed, not having to choose between the UPnP AV and OpenHome renderer, and the OpenHome specific Radio tab.
All of this is largely the consequence of BubbleDS being released first a time long ago (at a time where the only OpenHome implementation was Linn DS), followed that BubbleUPnP that built on it. If it was made today, there would only be BubbleUPnP that can do it all.
Ironically, it has been a few years I do not have Linn DS hardware anymore, as the PSU of my Majik DS-I and Sekrit DS-I both died.