(2nd Mar, 2014 01:32 AM)mehlvogel Wrote:  If you want to put this into a start script, make sure to wait until XBMC has sent the first announcement (so put a sleep for 15 or 20 seconds into the script).

(6th Mar, 2014 06:34 AM)mehlvogel Wrote:  I haven't done it myself. The script itself should be pretty straight forward:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 20 # Sleep for 20 seconds, adjust until it works.
avahi-publish -s "iXBMC" _airplay._tcp 36667 "deviceid=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" "features=0x77" "model=AppleTV3,2" "srcvers=101.28"

Put that into one file, make it executable (chmod +x) and create a start script which calls this script like this.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

/path/to/script.sh &

In order to not let the init process wait for 20 seconds.

The placement however is a different thing. In the dark times (i.e. back when I was fiddeling with start scripts ), you would have put it into /etc/init.d/ and run

Code:

update-rc.d <name of the script> defaults

to have it loaded. This might still work. I recommend reading /etc/init.d/README and

Code:

man update-rc.d

before messing with the start scripts. Nowadays, there are more advanced init systems at place and I am not sure what is used in xbian and how it could be ideally integrated. Maybe one of the devs or one having a better overview might chip in a pointer.

(2nd Mar, 2014 01:32 AM)mehlvogel Wrote:  In which you can replace "iXBMC" by the name you want your XBian to appear on the device and the XX:...:XX part by the mac address of eth0 (use ifconfig to find that one out).
If you want to put this into a start script, make sure to wait until XBMC has sent the first announcement (so put a sleep for 15 or 20 seconds into the script).

(25th Mar, 2014 01:56 PM)mk01 Wrote:  

(2nd Mar, 2014 01:32 AM)mehlvogel Wrote:  In which you can replace "iXBMC" by the name you want your XBian to appear on the device and the XX:...:XX part by the mac address of eth0 (use ifconfig to find that one out).
If you want to put this into a start script, make sure to wait until XBMC has sent the first announcement (so put a sleep for 15 or 20 seconds into the script).

isn't better to provide oneline patch to XBMC? and actually send this announcement after sleep after the first one ?

(25th Mar, 2014 01:56 PM)mk01 Wrote:  ok, should be merged into upstream.

@DreamT
anyhow to provide some insights and demonstrate how easier upstart is (comparing to sysv (init.d)):

you would create file /etc/init/airplay-anounce.conf

Code:

start on started xbmc

task

pre-start exec sleep 60

exec avahi-publish -s "iXBMC" _airplay._tcp 36667 "deviceid=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" "features=0x77" "model=AppleTV3,2" "srcvers=101.28"

clever gui would change "start on started xbmc" to "start on xbmc-anounced". where xbmc-anounced would mean airplay anounce from XBMC / but for actual syntax and catching avahi events we would need to use documentation

(25th Mar, 2014 05:10 PM)mehlvogel Wrote:  Of course it would have been, if I would be able to provide such a patch. But since I have absolutely no idea how XBMC's architecture looks like,

(25th Mar, 2014 05:31 PM)mk01 Wrote:  keep an eye on the upstream fix / in case it will take months, we update by ourself.

Quote:
That said the fix has been merged to master. It also will hit the gotham branch (its up to the release managers when they do the backport - didn't look if they did already).