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Thanks. Since then I've dumped that distro, erased the HDD (my data is on a separate HDD), reinstalled Win10, and installed another distro. Three times! I'm now on Ubuntu 19.10 in dual boot mode and VLC worked perfectly from first go re showing all my network UPnP devices. Why so many distros? On o...

I had the same issue, but changing the service order (as Felix suggested above) and restarting the macbook seems to have done the trick (https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=138240&p=499492#p499492)

This post https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=146518#p492509 suggested to change the "Service Order" in your network preferences. It didn't work for me initially (changing the order, clicking "Apply", re-launching VLC), but after restarting the computer, it's now working. ...

I should add that while VLC on my MBP is not showing the UPnP server, VLC on my iPhone is able to see it and use it etc. just fine Running 3.0.8 - seeing the same (or very similar issue) on Mojave 10.14.6 $ /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --verbose 2 ... ... ... 007fa89d41b0b0] main service...

Running 3.0.8 - seeing the same (or very similar issue) on Mojave 10.14.6 $ /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --verbose 2 ... ... ... 007fa89d41b0b0] main services discovery debug: looking for services_discovery module matching "upnp": 8 candidates [00007fa89d41b0b0] upnp services d...