New iCloud home duo - DNLA?

My Cloud Home My Cloud Home Duo
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I have a couple of wd mycloud mirror units. 1 for time machine backup, the other for movie storage.

At some point soon I need to upgrade the movie one to a larger size.

I read somewhere that the new home duo does not support DNLA, is this true ?

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Even if it did, I’d stay far away from it. It’s not your typical NAS in any shape or form.

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@robin_bonathan The My Cloud Home does not include Twonky DLNA, but supports Plex Media Server. The Plex Media Server DLNA is disabled by default.

For movie storage and streaming, I would go with a PR2100/PR4100 which has the same features as the Mirror but with more CPU and Memory.

FULL DISCLOSURE:
I run Plex on My Cloud Home and PR2100 with identical content and have no problem streaming via the Plex App on my Smart TV from either unit over 2.4 GHz wifi.

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Thanks, been doing more reading and you are right

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Thanks, will look down that route on upgrade as plex probably would not work for me anyhow.

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I also agree with Tony, and will go one step further and say I avoid DLNA and Plex for the most part. I have a NAS similar to the PR2100, and simply stream (via SMB) my videos on it to my WDTV (a great device, now discontinued). From there onto my NON Smart TV (Smart TVs are not that smart.}

So as a substitute for a WDTV, I recommend the Amazon Fire TV running the MrMC app (a simpler derivative of the acclaimed Kodi app).

PLEX is over-blown and can basically only play mp4 files easily. Only time I use it from my NAS is rarely; as a novelty.

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Maybe I do this all wrong but I am currently have my media (mainly mkv’s) on could mirror device. I do also have a smaller number of bluray disks as opposed to 450 or so films on drive.

My dvd / bluray player then acts as control and streams that content to either my TV or via my AV amp onto my projector. The player has 2 HDMI outputs which feed the AV amp and that decodes audio for speakers.

My player as far as I am aware only has DNLA option (no plex)