uPnP media renderer

[Trial]

Hi,
i want to present an uPnP media renderer for Enigma2. Up to now only a dreambox with OE2 had one and now almost all E2 boxes. The renderer was written by Michael N. Lipp and called CoCy and adapted by me. What is a media renderer? Something similar to Airplay but based on uPnP. What can it do. You can install BubbleUPnP on your android (IOS???) device and the select the E2 box as the output device. When you chose a video or music file in BubbleUPnP and play it it will be actually played on your STB. So it is an easy way to get music and videos from you cell phone on to the TV screen or to your AVR.

At the moment installation is still quite complicated but you only have to do it once. So in case something fails please make an image backup before you start!

Extract the attached file on you PC and copy the directories CoCy-master, circuits-2.1.0 and circuits-bricks to /etc on you box. Telnet to you box and then
cd /tmp
opkg install libgdbm4
opkg install python-distutils
opkg install python-db
opkg install python-gdbm
opkg install python-xmlrpc
opkg install python-compile
opkg install python-multiprocessing
opkg install python-subprocess
python ez_setup.py
cd circuits-2.1.0
python setup.py install
cd ../circuits-bricks-0.3
python setup.py install
cd ../CoCy-master
python setup.py install

Now copy the directory CoCy to you box into /usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/SytemPlugins

After a restart you should see an Enigma2 Media Renderer in BubbleUPnP as output device. To be able to play videos from your portable device you must disable Mime Type Checking in BubbleUPnP.

When your image is not ViX then the opkg install part will probably fail because the libraries are not on the feed in this case download the python libs and install them.

I installed it on my Solo2 with OpenViX 3.0.685 and VTi 5.1.

ciao

[Maga77]

Ciao,
Il plugin è proprio quello che sto cercando!
Io però posseggo un decoder UNIBOX VENTON HD1 con immagine Egami (OE).
Sai dirmi se posso provare a installarlo anche io alla stessa maniera? Non vorrei incasinare il decoder..
Oppure sai se c'è un altro plugin simile?
Grazie


Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus con Tapatalk 2

[Trial]

hi,
I only understand german and english.

sorry

Gesendet von meinem GT-P1000 mit Tapatalk 4

[Rob van der Does]

Basta fare un backup e si può provare liberamente tutto.

[Maga77]

Hello ,
The plugin is just what I'm looking for!
But I own a decoder UNIBOX Venton HD1 with Egami image (OE) .
Can you tell me if I can try to install it the same way too ? I would not mess up the decoder ..
Or do you know if there is another similar plugin ?
thanks

Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus con Tapatalk 2

[Trial]

Hi,
as Rob said make a full image backup so you can restore your current state easily.

Installation should be possible on all boxes with Enigma2 and Python 2.7.

There is still a problem with the renderer concerning the file /var/lib/cocy/upnp_uuids. When you make a complete restart of your box you must delete this file and restart enigma2 to get it running again. An alternative would be AirPlay for which at least two plugins exists.

ciao

[Trial]

Hi,
here is a version which installed nicely on my DUO2 and it survives reboots.

ciao

[Toasty84]

Hi,

Sorry to resurrect this thread. I was just wondering if anyone has COCY working on the newest VIX image?
I tried to install this last night on my Solo2 but run into problems.
I'd love to be able to get this running, it's the only thing missing from my current configuration.

I did test out the BH image when I first got my Solo2. Although I liked their implementation of the Coherence Upnp renderer, I just didn't like the image as much as VIX.


Thanks!

[Trial]

Hi,
Michael, the author of cocy, had done quite some work and the attached version should install without problems. At least on my Duo2 with ViX it was no problem.

ciao

[Toasty84]

Thanks for the reply Trial.

I'll give your attached version a try this evening if I get a bit of time.

Thanks again!

[Toasty84]

Hi,

I gave it a try, but I'm still having problems.
During installation I get a lot of unsatisfied recommendation's (mainly python-dev & a few ncurses-dev).


The installation output ends with...


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ez_setup.py", line 21, in <module>
import optparse
ImportError: No module named optparse
//var/lib/opkg/info/enigma2-plugin-cocy.postinst: line 12: easy_install: command not found


After a reboot I get the following message when entering the plugins menu...


Some plugins are not available:
SystemPlugins/CoCy/ (No module named circuits_bricks.app)


Any ideas? I'll keep trying, maybe I will stumble across a solution.
If I get it working I will post the solution here in case anyone else with a Solo 2 running vix is interested in setting this up.


Thanks!

[Trial]

Hi,
I had it running on ViX 3.??? for about half a year. Is your box connected to the internet and is it working? Perhaps you need to change DNS to 8.8.8.8 because of some funny ISP.

A working inet connection is mandatory for this installation.

ciao

[Toasty84]

Hi Trial,

The box always has a network connection and access to the internet. I tried changing the DNS to see if it would make any difference but the end result was exactly the same as my previous post.

I haven't had a lot of time to spend getting this working due to Christmas/New Year commitments. I will hopefully have a bit time to test things out this weekend.

As always thanks for the help and suggestions.

Thanks!

[Trial]

Hi,
have you tried 0.12a or 0.14? Have you tried on ViX? Which version of ViX?

Attached version 0.2 of CoCy where Michel made quite some changes. Try this one.

ciao

[barolos]

Hi,
i'm tryng cocy on vusolo2 with vti 6.0.5.
After installation of the last version of cocy, i can't get the renderer on bubblesupnp.
thi is the cocy.log

2014-01-09 13:13:02,539 CoCy[application] INFO: Application CoCy started
2014-01-09 13:13:04,644 CoCy[providers] DEBUG: <Enigma2Player/media_player 1735:Application (queued=0) [S]> changed: {'volume': 1}

thanks