[mythtv-users] 0.27 and AirPlay

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Wed Oct 9 10:18:53 UTC 2013


On 9 October 2013 10:54, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> At 11:11 AM +1100 10/9/13, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>
>> On 9 October 2013 02:02, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>  So, does .27 AirPlay work for you or not?  Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> It works great :)
>>
>> I was just thinking:
>> did you by any chance check the audio only in frontend -> Setup ->
>> General ; page 7 : AirPlay settings
>> "only support Airtunes" checked?
>>
>
> Nope, that is unchecked.  BTW, "AirPlay full screen playback" is also
> unchecked.
>
>
>  Early in 0.26 code; I made a mistake in calculating the Bonjour Id
>> used to set the name of the service of the network. AirPlay uses two
>> different service name to define AirPlay: one for audio (AirTunes) and
>> one for video. They both need to have the same id for iOS or iTunes to
>> present them as a single device; otherwise it will either not show at
>> all, or show two different devices.
>>
>> You can determine the AirPlayId used by your frontend running the
>> following MySQL command:
>>
>> SELECT hostname,data FROM settings WHERE value='AirPlayId';
>>
>> If you see the same hostname more than once; there's an issue.
>>
>
> Each machine seems to have one entry:
>
> $ mysql5 -h 192.168.2.222 -u mythtv -p -e "SELECT hostname,data FROM
> settings WHERE value='AirPlayId';" mythconverg
> Enter password:
> +-----------------------+-----**---------+
> | hostname              | data         |
> +-----------------------+-----**---------+
> | at-mbp12-5.local      | 6e3c68454246 |
> | ct-mbp11.local        | 332A5C62616D |
> | kids-mini.local       | 635e702a3a37 |
> | mediamini.local       | 372D474F2343 |
> | seagateexternal.local | 354244362A3A |
> +-----------------------+-----**---------+
>
>
>  You can delete all those values to force recalculating them with:
>>
>> DELETE FROM settings WHERE value='AirPlayId';
>>
>> make sure the frontend isn't running when running the SQL commands,
>> otherwise it will be recreated as it was before
>>
>> then restart the frontend.
>>
>> FWIW, I have it both running on my production system (0.27: three
>> frontends) and my dev box (a mac on 10.9, running a 0.28 combo)
>> works fine on all of them
>>
>
> I don't know what to say.  It was working for me but now it's not...more
> correctly, parts are working and other parts not.  Maybe some more people
> can report their experiences and we either figure out what I/we need to do
> differently.  Or maybe there is some bit of code that needs to be tweaked
> to work in different cases, no?
>
> Craig
>
>
I had similar problem when I first updated to 0.27 which was also around
the same time I upgraded to iOS7 and to fix I had to reboot my phone.

Hope this helps,

Anthony
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