Airplay not working

[mehlvogel]

(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 ?

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, how it works and where to start for such a patch, this would take a huge amount of time, which -- I am afraid -- is currently not at my disposal
The avahi stuff I got from the XBMC forum, so I guess the devs already now about it.

(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

First, thanks on the upstart info. It really looks a hell lot easier. Second, I will make some more tests and keep an eye on it as soon as the update is pushed to my Pi.