[mythtv-users] Airplay audio only in v29

[Roger Siddons]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:54:06 -0600
Michael A Weber <mweberjunk01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > That's true, but AirPlay is a bit different and isn't much used, I
> > believe. So it's probably worth disabling the "listen on all
> > subnets" and using a real ip address on your backend to see if it
> > changes anything.    
> 
> I’ve had a real IP address specified in my mythbackend setup for
> several years as that’s the only way it would be accessible by a
> remote frontend… and it is.  And, I only temporarily enabled the
> “listen on all subnets” and disabled it soon after testing
> unsuccessfully.  Plus, I’m trying to push audio to a remote frontend,
> not a backend, and I cannot believe a frontend uses the backend for
> AirTunes for anything other than the config info in the database.
> So, I’m good on this part.
>   

The frontend & backend use the same library/code for networking. I
wondered if there was some bug/setting leakage that would affect
AirPlay.

> >> Also, the setting isn’t present to enable AirTunes on the backend’s
> >> frontend.  I just finished going through and making sure all the
> >> runtime dependencies are installed, I went through the
> >> configuration script to make sure all the options I believe I
> >> would need are present and enabled, and still nothing.
> >>     
> > 
> > It should show up if libdns_sd & libcrypto are installed. 
> > You probably need the RAOPKey from your other machine as well.
> > The USING_AIRPLAY is set by mythfrontend.pro    
> 
> I have both libdns-sd and libcrypto installed, but it’s still not
> loading.  
> 
> Sadly, this worked in this exact hardware scenario with 0.27 two+
> weeks ago prior to the upgrade to v29, but no longer works with v29.
> Since I see the RAOP objects created on the remote frontend in v29,
> but the connections from Mac machines fails, I’m starting to believe
> this is a v29 issue and not an issue of my configuration.
>   

Sorry, I thought you were building from source. Those libs are build
dependencies.
The absent setting suggests that it wasn't built with airplay enabled.
mythfrontend --version should tell you.

Mythbuntu 29/fixes has it enabled.