Airplay not working

[DreamT]

(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.

Thank you for your advice on this, I'll try it as soon as have some time for it.

I had some trouble with the avahi-utils (some Airplay apps not working, random lockups), but all in all it seems to work quite well.