Command line arguments

UMS can be launched with command line arguments. These arguments can either be used from the command line directly, be used from scripts or be used from shortcuts. The Universal Media Server (Select Profile) shortcut made by the Universal Media Server Windows installer is an example of this (launched with the profiles argument). UMS will be used as an abbreviation for Universal Media Server in the rest of this document.

Arguments

To be able to use the command line arguments on Windows, follow this syntax:

Windows

UMS.exe argument 1 argument 2 ... argument X

Linux

./UMS.sh argument 1 argument 2 ... argument X

Mac OS

open -a "Universal Media Server" --args argument1 argument2 ...