[mythtv-users] 0.25.2 airplay and iTunes

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 10 August 2012 12:56, Michael A Weber <mweberjunk01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fortunately, I got myself Bonjour Browser and I found something interesting.
> Everything was listed with IPv6 addresses in that browser, so I took a stab
> at thinking that airplay in iTunes was trying to use the IPv6 address
> listed, which happened to be the link-local address.  I went into the
> network configuration for my iMac, and turned IPv6 off for every wired and
> wifi connection, and VOILA…  I am streaming both audio AND video from iTunes
> to MythTV via Airplay.

If you use a recent version of myth, this issue has been fixed....
it's completely fixed in 0.26

The problem only exists on dual frontend/backend, when using a 1+
month old myth, you must configure in mythtv-setup to listen to IPv6
by entering a valid IPv6 address.

>
> So, what I may do in the future is add an IPv6 address to the MythTV box and
> hope that it will be registered with Bonjour.  That way, I can re-enable
> IPv6 on my other machines and leave it that way as it was intended.

Problem is that Bonjour doesn't advertise a particular IP address, it
advertises hostnames on all interfaces.
So what you need to check is how the hostname are being resolved on
your machine.

If the hostname is resolved as an IPv4 address, that's what it uses,
if it resolves as an IPv6 that's what it uses too.

iTunes will resolve a hostname with mDNS, so often a local hostname
will be resolved as a IPv6 link-local address (starts with FE80)

Summary of this post: upgrade mythtv with a version compiled after
July 18th which is went the full fix went in (for both 0.25 and 0.26)

To get audio-only support, as mentioned, you need to properly
configure the RSA key in ~/.mythtv