Content:

  1. Features
  2. Screenshots
      1. Inspector showing details of a device and and item of a …
      2. Inspector browsing two MediaServers and controlling the GStreamer …
      3. Inspector controlling an InternetGatewayDevice (soon in svn trunk version, …
  3. Download and Installation
  4. Licence
  5. Dependencies
  6. Open Tickets (new...)

UPnP-Inspector

The Inspector is an UPnP Device and Service analyzer, and a debugging tool, based on the Coherence DLNA/UPnP framework.
Modeled loosely after the Intel UPnP Device Spy and Device Validator.

It is a GUI to discover and explore UPnP devices on your network. Detected devices are displayed in a tree-view, where - amongst other things - actions can be called and state-variables be queried.

It will host the tests from our UPnP test-suite, to provide a central place to verify device implementations and hunt down any UPnP anomalies.

The Inspector currently in beta and released to get feedback and maybe help ironing out some still existing bugs.

Features

  • inspect UPnP devices, services, actions and state-variables
  • invoke actions on any service
  • extract UPnP device- and service-description xml-files
  • follow and analyze events (per device/service is work-in-progress)
  • global log and device/service based log (work-in-progress)
  • interact with well-known devices, e.g. browse the ContentDirectory of an UPnP A/V MediaServer and inspect its containers and items,
    or control an UPnP A/V MediaRenderer (other UPnP devices, like the BinaryLight? is work-in-progress)
  • UPnP (and later DLNA) conformance tests (work-in-progress)

Screenshots

Inspector showing details of a device and and item of a ContentDirectoryServer?

http://coherence.beebits.net/download/Inspector-1.png

Inspector browsing two MediaServers and controlling the GStreamer MediaRenderer

http://coherence.beebits.net/download/Inspector-2.png

Inspector controlling an InternetGatewayDevice (soon in svn trunk version, ui unpolished)

http://coherence.beebits.net/download/Inspector-IGD-1.png

Download and Installation

There is an entry in the Python Package Index enabling you to install and upgrade with easy_install:

  • easy_install UPnP-Inspector

binary packages for your Linux Distribution:

  • available into the "contrib" repository off Mandriva Linux starting from 2009.1. Also available in 2008.1 and 2009.0 in "contrib/backports" Mandriva's repository.
  • for Debian and Ubuntu systems at cjsmo's ppa upnp-inspector-0.2.2-0ubuntu1

a one-click installer for Windows:

source tarball:

source checkouts via Subversion:

  • current development: svn co https://coherence.beebits.net/svn/trunk/UPnP-Inspector UPnP-Inspector

The code from the tar-ball or the svn checkout needs to be installed with sudo python ./setup.py install

After successful installation you can start the Inspector with the command "/usr/bin/upnp-inspector".

Licence

The Inspector is licensed under the MIT license.

Dependencies

Open Tickets (new...)

#219
Double Click should start default action
#238
UPnP-Inspector should have a special "search" function to query "searchable" containers
#247
Please add GPL License
#257
root item in Browse windows always has title "root"
#303
add a convenience menu option to easily extract ProtocolInfo from MRs and MSs
#368
Python exceptions: UPNP-Inpector doesn't work