how to enter IP of DLNA seerver?

[BubbleUPnP]

Hi,

my DLNA server is not detected automatically when I'm in a different network. How can I specify the server's IP manually and use it even from another network, such as a VPN?

[Simon]

Use for example No-ip.com dyndns and point tha address that ypu choose to your router, and you can acceess your media server via bubbleupnp server appliction on pc.

I use Serviio as a service running on my pc that way, and use bubbleupnp server also running as a service, both start with windows

Just pointing the bibbleupnp android app to my dyndns no-ip address.ä that is confogured on my router ös Wan 

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 10:16 BubbleUPnP <bubbl...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi,

my DLNA server is not detected automatically when I'm in a different network. How can I specify the server's IP manually and use it even from another network, such as a VPN?

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[BubbleUPnP]

No, that's not it: I don't want to open up my home network for incoming connections or use an external server. I can contact the DLNA server just fine, all I need is to tell BubbleUPnP the IP because it can't find it by itself (due to being in another network segment.) 

Until now, I've been using "ServiiGo", where I could just "add manual server" and be done with it. Unfortunaltely this app is no longer developed and I had hoped to replace it with BubbleUPnP.

[Michael Pujos]

You cannot manually enter the http address of your UPnP/DLNA media server in Android BubbleUPnP.

Access to media servers when SSDP discovery is not available (other networks, VPN) is done via 'BubbleUPnP Server' that you can install on any machine of your home network:

https://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver2/

There is no plan to implement direct http connection.

[Simon]

But Serviigo work the same way as bubbleupnp in that manner i believe, correct me if have wromg, it needs external ports to work. 

Bubbleupnp server just points to your external  ip of your wan side of your network, and points to serviio server inside your lan, if configured to be used from outside your home, same as Serviio / Serviigo is used.

Cant you use Serviigo as before?

Or do you wamt Tidal / Qobuz functionality if you switched to Bubbleupnp?

Mime points direct to serviio on both intermal and external nerworks when configuring it to connect from.outside my home.

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[Light O'Matic]

Right, because the udp broadcasts used by mdns/dlna don't cross between networks.

There's another piece of software called bubbleupnp server, which you can run on the same network as your dlna media servers.  Then you manually configure the IP address of the bubbleupnp server in the bubbleupnp app, and the app uses the bubble server as a proxy to detect media servers.

But it only passes knowledge of the media servers, it doesn't pass knowledge of renderers.  So you can play media from home on your phone via the VPN.  But you can't play anything on a renderer that's across the VPN.  I wish it would do that but so it goes.

-Ben

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[BubbleUPnP]

Ok, now I understand: 

On ServiiGo's Website it even states explicitly that the app is not using DLNA but a special API that is only provided by Serviio. That's why no other app has made provisions for it. It also says on Serviio's site that this API had been created exactly for the purpose to access the server from outside the network.

And the  "BubbleUPnP Server" is acting as a kind of gateway to proxy between the two sides, creating its own "API" on the internet side, just as Serviio does out-of-the-box?

[Michael Pujos]

On Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 2:01:07 PM UTC+1 BubbleUPnP wrote:

And the  "BubbleUPnP Server" is acting as a kind of gateway to proxy between the two sides, creating its own "API" on the internet side, just as Serviio does out-of-the-box?

Yes it does exactly that. Moreover, in Android BubbleUPnP you can connect  to 'BubbleUPnP Server' via https if you wish, encrypting all network traffic.

[BubbleUPnP]

Got it. Excellent, that will work for me as well. Thanks for pointing me!