fetchtv not detected

[redavenger]

hey guys,
for the past few releases my fetchtv box does not seem to get "found" in UMS and hence it doesn't detect its FetchTV profile.
How can this be fixed?

[mik_s]

Could you post your logs for this version?
I have been looking over your previous posts and saw that the Fetch does not identify itself in the usual way before after a firmware update so maybe the same thing is happening here.

[redavenger]

yeah not a problem. it used to work or get detected for a while (well since my previous post issue got fixed), with the newer versions of ums and possibly fetch firmware it doesnt

[redavenger]

ok, trace file attached. the fetch box is ip address 192.168.0.50

[mik_s]

I am assuming you were using the conf included in UMS.
I can see that it does not use "FetchTV" in User-Agent anymore but does show as "Fetch DLNA1.5 DMS" in the modelName so this would make a better match.

The version of linux it was using has changed so this conf would stop working too as it was matching a specific version.

See if this conf fixes it and if it does I'll make a change in Github to update it

[redavenger]

that does work either. did you change the user agent search thing in this config file, because it looks like its still the old setting

[redavenger]

ok i changed the fetch agent line to Linux/4.9.212-1.16 and that seems to find the box.

[mik_s]

I kept "UserAgentSearch = FetchTV" so it will still work on older players that had not been updated but added "UpnpDetailsSearch = Fetch" which should match the model name if it is updated again. In theory if either of these 2 fields match then it should use this conf but sometimes it has to match both if set.

Try commenting out the UserAgentSearch line and see if it will match with just UpnpDetailsSearch. You could also try changing FetchTV to just Fetch in UserAgentSearch

Using the linux version is not very reliable as is to generic and could match other devices and it will probably change if the box gets another update.

[ayurharsha]

Hi @mik_s,

Thanks for the detailed explanation
I tested a few combinations based on your suggestion.

What finally worked for me was not relying on the Linux version match, as you mentioned—it’s too generic and likely to break again with firmware updates.

The best solution on my setup was:

Commenting out UserAgentSearch = FetchTV

Using only UpnpDetailsSearch = Fetch

Once I did that, Fetch TV was detected correctly again in Universal Media Server, and the proper profile loaded without issues.

Changing the UserAgent to a Linux version worked temporarily, but I agree it’s unreliable and could match other devices on the network.

Using the UPnP model name seems much more future-proof, especially since the Fetch firmware no longer identifies itself consistently via User-Agent.

Thanks again for the help—and updating the config in GitHub would definitely help others running into the same issue.

Cheers!