Re: [gmediaserver-devel] UUID / UDN of gmediaserver

[Oskar Liljeblad]

On Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 15:09, Arthur Taylor wrote:

Hi Arthur,

> Just a quick question. I'm implementing a UPnP client, and for the
> purposes of the client, I'm treating UUIDs as, well, 'Universally
> Unique'. The gmediaserver has one UUID/UDN for all instances of the
> software worldwide, which is causing my client some confusion when more
> than one gmediaserver is running at the same time.
> 
> Have I misinterpretend the Device Architecture document, or is this a
> problem with server's implementation? I note that the spec. says that
> device ID should persist over reboots, which could be tricky, but I
> think having the device ID vary over reboots would be less of a problem
> to clients than an infinite number of devices with the same UUID.
> 
> If I have to write I client that tolerates duplicate UDNs, what would
> you recommend as a secondary identifier for devices to distinguish
> between them? I'd ideally like to be able to run more than one
> gmediaserver on the same machine.

You're probably right. The docs on upnp.org describe how to generate
UUIDs from the current time, and that's probably what GMediaServer
should do... I'll look into this.

Regards,

Oskar