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I doubt you're alone, detection problems between the server and the renderer(s) are most often caused by something external (firewall, router, "security software") blocking the signals. The problem is that one can't list up all possible causes as there are so many different solutions. Each user must know enough about their own setup to know that they're not blocking the traffic, and I'm afraid this is where it often lacks...

This was actually quite useful. UMS hasn't shown up on my Samsung TV for a while, but as I use another renderer on my ps3 I never really looked into fixing it. I guess it stopped working around the time i upgraded to win 10 although i didn't take much notice of it.
I had assumed just allowing Java have access though the firewall was all that was needed.
I looked though my windows firewall advanced settings to see all the rules set there. by default for me it is set to block any inbound connection not matched by any rule.
when I looked at what rules were on port 1900 I saw only half were active, and therefore the rest were being blocked, so I enabled them all. These were predefined rules set by windows.
can't remember which ones I turned on but some did mention media streaming. I did the same for any outbound connections too, for both local and remote ports. these are my rules now.


At first I saw no change. I restarted UMS but still nothing , I turned off my TV and I noticed in the logs tab that UMS got a message from the IP my TV is on. turning the TV back on saw a lot of communication between it and UMS and it now shows up as a source.

Its definitely worth checking if you still have any issues connecting to UMS.