subsonic, raspberry pi & dlna

[jonsaddles]

Hi all,
So got a bit of time to get my new system put together, it is by no means the perfect solution but I now have a nice minimal and very cheap system that will stream all of my content while I'm out in the car and that also works as a fully fledged dlna media system at home.
The pi has a straight forward wheezy install with nothing else on there at all. To that I then installed SS and pointed it at a sata drive connected via a powered usb hub.
That setup has been running now for about a month and has proven to be perfectly reliable, at least for the use I make of it which is a couple of users streaming music to android phones.
For the in home dlna system I use bubble upnp on each of the android devices and installed minidlna on the pi, again you have to point it at the usb drive in the .conf file.
Bubble makes a point of telling you to install bubble server to make it work, you don't need to, maybe if you want the pi as a player but to act as a library it is not needed.
For some reason minidlna didn't want to play with my usb drive to start with until I reformatted it to exfat but that may have just been perculiar to me.
So the upshot is I now have streaming music out in the car and can also use the same server as a library to be played on any other dlna device on my network. Bubble client app also includes a virtual server that gives the ability to to access content on any device and direct it to any other device. In practise it works nicely, I use my phone as a controller playing music from the pi on my tv.
I know it's a departure and not strictly SS related but there has been so many people after dlna support I thought a nice little work around worth posting.

[alphawave7]

Howdy Jon! Thanks for the report, and can you divulge how large your collection is? Cheers!

[jonsaddles]

morning Alpha, yes music is about 200 Gb plus maybe a couple of Fb for pictures and I think there are 3 movies that I added for testing. So not the biggest collection but it's growing.
Forgot to mention that I had it running yesterday streaming to both an external subsonic client and an internal bubble client & experienced no delays or problems so the little pi does seem up to the job with music at least.