<p>MP will ping the host to know if the host is online or not.</p>

<p>But a host can be online and ping is blocked (firewall or whatever).</p>

<p>This branch is to be able to get share even if ping failed.</p>

<p><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13.65px; line-height: 19.11px;">The default detect method is the ping but there is a possibility to use the new detect method if you add this to mediaportal.xml under general section.</span><br style="font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13.65px; line-height: 19.11px;" />
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<span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13.65px; line-height: 19.11px;">&lt;entry name="HostDetectMethod"&gt;Share&lt;/entry&gt;</span></p>