upnp

Node.js program to discover and browse UPnP media servers.

Introduction

upnp is a Node.js CLI program to demonstrate how to discover and browse UPnP media servers.

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 14.0.0 is required due to usage of the optional chaining operator (?.) and nullish coalescing operator (??) from ES2020.
• The file upnp.js has one external dependency, i.e., xml2js.
• To play audio tracks, GStreamer is used. GStreamer is included in all Linux distributions.

Installation

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/wingkeet/upnp.git
$ cd upnp
$ npm install

Usage

Type npm start to run the program. Below is a sample screenshot:

Authors

• Steve Leong - Initial work

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

References

• UPnP Standards and Architecture
• UPnP on Wikipedia
• UPnP Hacks