Any advise on a UPnP Stack for Linux?

Hi,

I am working on a project which involves UPnP and will run on Linux.
Is anyone using a UPnP stack in a working project out there other than
the IGDs that I see?

I see a number of commercial stacks for linux, as well as the Intel
originated libupnp 1.2. Libupnp 1.2 looks fairly complete apart from
an implementation of device security. Has anyone used it for anything?
Has anyone used one of the commercial ones, and if so why?

As you can see, I'm trying to get a feel for whether people have found
a way of doing UPnP on linux that generally works well.

Any advise or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

-Robin Barooah



Robin Barooah

Hi Robin,

I'm currently using the code generated from Intel's Device Builder tool
to create a media server and control point in Linux. Their device
builder tool will create posix compliant code that compiles on MS or
linux. Overall I'd say it's pretty solid and they provide a nice set
of UPnP tools.

http://www.intel.com/technology/upnp

I did find a bug in their control point generated code but it was an
easy fix. (see their forum:
http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board?board.id=70)


Regards,

Brian

Thanks Brian,

I had wondered - and it's very helpful to hear from someone who's using
them successfully.

One of the concerns I had was that it looks from reading the license
terms that although the tools are free, the generated code is not - and
you are required to approach Intel for a license before you can
distribute a product which incorporates it.

That will probably be ok for some of my applications, but I need at
least one 'royalty free' implementation.

Is this how you understand it? Or have I misunderstood something.

-Robin