I can’t speak for any Ubuntu version of Asset, but on windows, it doesn’t display content. You only get access to the configuration settings. you then need a “client” to pull/request data from the Asset server. Such a client would be the Naim app, e.g. select the UPnP input on the app and you should see Asset UPnP as a server and then can drill down into the contents etc. Alternatively install something like bubbleUPnP on a phone and it too will be able to see the Asset server and files etc.
Also note that depending on how many files you have, it can take a few minutes for Asset to scan all your media.
OK thank you all. my router is set for DHCP connections.
I tested using the Naim app and continued to get Can’t play messages. WiFi connection.
from what I can see AssetPnP installs as a service and ensures it is in StartUp. and normally it will show a link to the web configuration page. which I didn’t see, but which I am able to access.
I was wondering about the WiFi connection, as oppose to ethernet connection. I have now again tried that, and assetUPnP works. it still won’t work on WiFi despite a strong signal I personally always prefer ethernet from experience at work.
This was only ever a test. I plan for a NAS or something more permanent than a laptop. perhaps even a Core.
I gave up on WiFi with a 272, and bit the bullet and installed a cat5e cable from the router (upstairs office) to downstairs, with a switch upstairs (after router, with Synology plugged in to it) and one downstairs with 272 and Apple TV plugged in. Never had anything but a few glitches after that.
Sadly, I think this is the answer for all the legacy green screen streamers. I have been wifi only on my NDX/UQs/172 at times and they all stutter or fall over intermittently. Hard wired into a router or AP and that problem goes away.
100% re ethernet wired, the 1st gen streamers were not that good with wireless.
My NDX has always been wired via a network switch, I had it on wireless once when painting and other room changes, it worked OK with iRadio and some NAS for 2 weeks, but more than happy to plug the RJ45’s into place again.
Yes with Naim’s first generation streamers wireless wasn’t great due to limitations in the network stack in terms of speed and protocol support. Ethernet was fine when in a low latency environment such as home streaming on a switched (duplex) Ethernet LAN. Using WLAN, network bridges like Powerline Adapters, and Internet access could all cause challenges as the bandwidth increased.
There were algorithmic spooling differences between WLAN and Ethernet on the streamers that Naim implemented to attempt overcome some of the limitations in the limited network stack that although quite effective couldn’t entirely mitigate the limited legacy wifi protocol support and limited network stack performance which coupled with limited network stack on those early Naim products.
Clearly on later Naim products WLAN and network latency management was massively transformed, to the extent WLAN has clear advantages now over Ethernet in some scenarios… and there are now generally no issues using high bandwidth cloud streaming services. Whether by Ethernet or WLAN.