[mythtv-users] Airplay: iPad thinks its streaming, but nothing shows on mythfrontend

[Anthony Giggins]

On 30 December 2015 at 06:27, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> > On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 29/12/2015 15:41, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> >>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:49 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Okay, so installing avahi on the frontend cured that problem, and
> >>>> now my iPad shows an Airplay button and I can select the frontend
> >>>> from there, but I've tried iPlayer, Amazon Instant Video and
> >>>> PlayerXtreme with no success: nothing appears on my TV and I see
> >>>> nothing in the frontend logs. The iPad is muted and seems to be
> >>>> happy that it is streaming to something.
> >>>
> >>> Also, have you seen:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/AirTunes/AirPlay#Can.27t_Start_.2F_Nothing_in_frontend_logs
> >>
> >> The issues mentioned there could be related and I haven't managed to
> >> follow all the advice given. The frontend logs show that the service
> >> is listening on a an external ipv4 address, but not on an ipv6 address.
> >>
> >> In the logs I see:
> >>
> >> 127.0.0.1:5000
> >> 10.0.0.4:5000
> >> [::1]:5000
> >>
> >> and later the same but with port 5100. I guess the third line implies
> >> I at least have ipv6 enabled, but maybe not on the external interface
> >> (if that's possible - I'm no expert). The frontend runs an image
> >> I create via a system call kiwi and I've yet to find out how to alter
> >> aspects of ipv6. Also this is a frontend only, so I wasn't
> >> sure how mythtv-setup relates. I don't include that on the frontend,
> >> although I could easily enough.
> >
> > Hmm, I seem to be getting the same problem you are describing, even when
> trying to AirPlay music.  No output (after a minute or more), no
> notification on screen when starting playback, nothing relevant showing in
> the frontend log.  I’m running "mythfrontend version: fixes/0.27
> [v0.27.4-f1115fcd-MacPorts] www.mythtv.org” with Qt 4.8.6.  Network
> interfaces were:
> >
> > 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280316 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404
> (listen) - Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6547
> > 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280481 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404
> (listen) - Listening on TCP 192.168.2.221:6547
> > 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280685 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404
> (listen) - Listening on TCP [fe80::1%lo0]:6547
> > 2015-12-29 12:13:21.280870 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404
> (listen) - Listening on TCP [::1]:6547
> > 2015-12-29 12:13:21.281064 I [32108/3847] CoreContext serverpool.cpp:404
> (listen) - Listening on TCP [fe80::6a5b:35ff:fe7f:3a10%en0]:6547
> >
> >
> > I think we need to turn on more extensive logging for the frontend to
> see if that shows anything.  I’ll try later but I don’t have much time.
>
> If I use an old iPad running iOS 5.1.1 (!!), music, photos and video all
> AirPlay fine.  None of those work from my iPhone running iOS 9.2.  I found
> an email from jay (the main developer on this feature) saying that videos
> no longer worked as of iOS 8:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/580272#580272
>
> It would appear that iOS 9 won’t allow us *any* AirPlay functionality.  Or
> do we just need a new key?  Perhaps jya can confirm?
>
> Craig
>

I remember Jya was in communication with the Kodi devs as they got video
playback working in iOS 8 but the same changes were not working in Mythtv,
it appears to be even worse in iOS 9 which now only supports audio in Kodi

http://kodi.wiki/view/AirPlay

perhaps miracast or upnp receiver support should be added?

Cheers,

Anthony
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