[mythtv-users] Problems with Airplay / Airtunes

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi Jean-Yves,

thanks for the info. Didn't know that the airplay service works on ports
above 5000, because mine never did, not on a Mac, iPad or iPhone (the
airplay symbol never shows up on any device, but did when the port was
5000). However, by adding a delay to the startup I did get it working, so I
will look in to this if the problem presents itself again.

// Andréas

2013/1/7 Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>

> On 7 January 2013 06:39, Andréas Kühne <andreas at kuhne.se> wrote:
>
> > This port number then increases up till over 5010, and then the service
> > seems to start, however the problem is that my iThings cannot connect to
> the
> > frontend unless the services are running on port 5000 and 5100.
>
> your analysis of the problem is flawed.
> It's not that it can only work over port 5000 and 5100. If port
> 5000-5009 failed but 5010 worked, itunes client would connect
> automatically to that port.
>
> There is no restrictions as to which port it can use, just that myth
> tries port 5000 and if it fails try a few other ports until it finds
> one or tried too many times.
>
> the issue is that it's not listening to any link-local address with is
> used by default
>
> >
> > If I restart the mythfrontend program the services start on the correct
> > ports. I think my problem is with the IPv6 address not being initialized
> > before the service tries to start. I have tried to set the IPv6 manually
> and
> > also disable IPv6 entirely on the machine.
>
> again, your analysis is wrong. IPv6 link-local address would be set
> well before myth ever started.
> you can't disable IPv6 unfortunately from the myth machine.
>
> AirPlay advertise a service using a hostname (not an IP address)  and
> a port number.
> What iTunes/iOS will try to use depends entirely on how they are going
> to resolve that hostname.
>
> If the hostname is resolved as an IPv6 address (which seems to be the
> default with iTunes) then that's what it uses.
>
> > I can't be the only one with this problem? Anyone have any ideas?
> You need to solve why listening over the link-local address fails on your
> host.
>
> The only time I've seen this is on OSX machine with Qt <= 4.8.2. The
> bug was fixed in 4.8.3
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-25634
>
> In any case, if you want anyone to properly trouble shoot the problem,
> you need to provide a complete log of mythfrontend started with -v
> audio,playback --loglevel debug
>
> Without it, it's just pure theory
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