It is great that kodi does now include DLNA renderer functionality.
What would be even better if this DLNA renderer would use the open[/size]home standard, which would for example make it possible to have playlists on the renderer without any need to keep the control point=smartphone on all the time.
Check out
http://www.openhome.org/wiki/OhMedia for more information.
I've looked into OpenHome and ohNet in the past. It looks great but it's completely different from the UPnP framework (Platinum SDK) that kodi is using right now and since ohNet is more of a stack it looks like a huge amount of work to integrate the two. It might actually be easier to drop Platinum SDK and build our own UPnP server/client/renderer based on ohNet. But that also means re-writing our whole UPnP implementation.
So either way it's a looooot of work.
Thank you for the answer - i already suspected it would be no easy catch.
Maybe interesting for some users here: if you team up kodi's dlna renderer functionality with free bubble upnp server on your netwok, you can already use kodi as an openhome renderer today, check out
http://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserv...figuration
Quite nice if you use kodi more for music than video and don't have a screen attached all the time.
PS: Maybe this could be an interesting project to look at when it comes to OpenHome DLNA...?
https://github.com/PeteManchester/MediaPlayer
MediaPlayer - Java Based Open Home UPnP Media Renderer- A fully open-source java project that uses the OpenHome API to implement a UPNP Media Renderer.