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Anyone else using LG and found they can no longer connect to their home network for streaming? This is not a UMS issue, I see no options whatsoever. It had to happen in the last month or so with LG's last update.

Not sure what any work around is and seems like I am SOL.

Do you mean the TV itself is not connecting to the network?
This could be a problem on your router

Are you using Wifi? if so try using a wired connection.

If you are using a wired connection check to make sure the cable has not come loose.
I had a similar problem on my PS5 and found the plastic tab had snapped off that allowed the plug to pull out when I moved it.

No, its the TV itself. There used to be an option for home network, where UMS and the generic windows option would pop up. Now its completely gone.

Was curious if anyone else has the same problem who owns an LG TV.

I think it could be a physical problem on the TV as there would be a lot of posts about this all over.
I did see one where the problem was a loose Wifi card here.
Best bet is to do some searching and see if you can find a troubleshooting guide for this, then you (or some one that is better at this) take the back off and check the Wifi card.
If you are using a wired connection then this would rule this out.

If internet is working on the TV than maybe something else is wrong and I would suspect the router.
If the TV can't see UMS, UMS might be able to see the TV but some of the communication might be blocked.

Sorry if unclear, but it is a physical problem with the TV or rather a problem with the LG software from their last update. There is no place to see UMS, because there is no longer a place to go to see network connections.

It is like they removed it in favor of their proprietary IoT software, which won't work with UMS. I don't know if they moved it or there is a way around it, but since it the change is so recent, all my searching is coming up empty.

I posted this in Media Renders and not Help and Support, because it is not a problem with UMS or the way it is configured with my home network, but the stupid LG software. I think this might be the end of my using UMS absent of buying a new TV, unfortunately.

Does your TV connect to the internet though? Can you use other streaming services like Netflix or Amazon?

It might be a firmware update where they removed this but if nothing that uses the internet is working it could mean a fault on the TV and not the firmware, and it is not showing as it cannot connect to anything.

You should still be able to see its IP and other details in it settings for network and if not there in Wifi use a wired connection.
You might actually have the network turned off, or someone might have unknowingly turned it off.

If you are using a wired connection then maybe the ethernet plug has come out.

What model TV are you have?

I found this about firmware update and there is no mention of removing network streaming, just bug fixes.

Everything else worked fine for app streaming and I even installed Jellyfin to try it out. It all worked great.

For some reason the TV didn't even list the generic Netgear sharing "ReadyDLNA", which I would I see even when having problems with UMS.

However, today I checked again and its back. Sorry to spin up this post and have the back and forths.

Glad I can go back to UMS. Jellyfin was fine, but I think UMS had a lot of better features.